#5december

A beautiful children's party that has to give way. If you had said this to people 30 years ago, they would have laughed at it... this is just a joke... impossible... such a fun children's party. Racism? How, then. You're surprised, you never, ever thought of that. Black Pete, that sweetheart, that always smiling, jumping, cheerfully hopping child friend, racist, no man... hahaha... where do they get it from?
Then Zwarte Piet can no longer, he becomes purple, yellow, green, white... Yeah, that's how it's supposed to be? Mmmm... adults think this is weird. Why is this? Where is our well-known Cute Zwarte Piet? Our tradition, a Dutch tradition. Children do not suffer so much that Piet gets all colors, they get their peppernuts, speculaas and gifts also without the Piet black.
Yet it remains strange, abolishing something that is national, stripe through it, no more of this time.
But it's not just about this time, it's about the experience that most children have experienced as beautiful, fun, sociable and exciting. But also children who have had a hard time during that period.
I put my question marks on that, so there was shouting: hey, black pietje... And not sooty mop, sambo, negro or pale eyeglass jew, squint.
It's the adults of today who are struggling with it right now. People who once walked around like Zwart Pietje and handed out peppernuts.
I personally find it disturbing that everything is thrown on racism, if I warn a white or darker person about something, it is for the white (not all) a warning and the darker person (not all) discrimination.
People who love the tradition of Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet are not racists but want to keep it as it was. A cozy nostalgic party.

What do you think about it?