Swarte Piet is Racisme movement

On 16th January 2012, in the very well known "de nieuwe anita", just before the typical Monday evening event, 2 persons opened up the evening. In front of about 70 people, 2 guys have shown their idea about the Dutch tradition that involve the Zwarte Piets. One of them seems to be the person that was arrested in Holland during the last Event 'sinterklaas' for having a T-Shirt where was written: "Zwarte Piet is racisme".
From videos that have been circulating the internet and from other sources, it seems that this person (together with others) was not actually manifesting actively but simply having a t-shirt that triggered the police reaction.
I spoke to this man and he told me that the Minister of Justice is still to let them know the reason of hist arrest as he did not brake any rule or regulation.
It seems that the freedom of expression is questioned and unknown rules engaged by the authorities.
They look for no support. They simply want the world to know what happened.
Here is a video with their interpretation and reasoning of this new movement.

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• Zwarte
• Piet
• is
• racisme
• sinterklaas
• Nederland
• holland