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Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet have reached the NY Times. But just as the defense of traditions has grown stronger, so has the criticism that Black Pete is a racist holdover from the Netherlands’s colonial past. In January the United Nations High Commission for Human Rights sent a letter to the Dutch government stating that Black Pete perpetuated the image of people of African descent as second-class citizens and constituted a “living trace of past slavery.” nytimes/2013/12/05/opinion/why-the-dutch-love-black-pete.html?hp&rref=opinion&_r=0 OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR Why the Dutch Love Black Pete By ARNON GRUNBERG
Posted on: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 05:07:40 +0000

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