The Stream - Blackface for the holidays

Is The Netherlands' tradition of putting Santa's helpers in black-face racist or a harmless custom? We look at Zwarte Piet or Black Pete

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[geniuz1982]

MONKEY KIND..... HMMMM you could not be a racist yourself huhhh...

[geniuz1982]

ze kwamen toch door de schoorsteen ??? WAT IS HET NOU vieze huichelaar .......... KK RACIST !!!!

[TheGalantir]

seriously a muslim with black guy handing out present what is so freaking bad and racist about this.

For one kids love that muslim and those black guys. They don't see those particular ones as criminals as they see most other muslims and black people. Again what is so racist about that? But hey if you blacks think that handing out present is a bad image then we should very quickly change it to white guys since i wanne be seen handing them out to kids every single day.

[TheGalantir]

I'm a dutch guy and i think it should indeed stop.

I never ever have seen a black guy handing out present, they mostly hand out bullets.

So it's a very unrealistic portrait of black people and it should stop.

[Lone432345]

Any Dumbass can start a Tradition. I'm going to start a Tradition where you put a M80 up a Chickens ass every March 5th. Dose it make it a Good Tradition, No. Just because its some Tradition, dosn't make it good.

[ageniusx187]

no, you are poor as hell and you rather rape a homo goat, arrogant son of a bitch!

[Kitiem3000]

America has it easy with the Mexicans. At least they aren't campaigning against Santa's elves. Isn't it a sign of a tolerant culture that we take these culture bashing immigrants at least half way serious? I'd like to see European immigrants in for instance Saudi Arabia try something like that and see where it gets them.

[david kroon]

I am a rich mothafucka who is living in the Netherlands, we don't have that shit anymore. I prefer raping one woman at a time, two (especially with the size of your mom) would be too much...

[ageniusx187]

eat shit and die having ebola virus! that was your mom and your last acts!