This is Africa wrote:New Black Pete still in blackface
June 12, 2014 — After years of protests against the practice of white people in the Netherlands blacking up every December to play a character called Black Pete, a new Black Pete was unveiled this week. To more protests.
People of African descent in the Netherlands, and many white Dutch people, too, have for years protested the practice of white people blacking up every December to play the troublesome character they call Zwarte Piet (Black Pete; read our previous post about this character and the highly amusing defences of the apologists, here).
Last year, the complaints and protests went all the way to the UN, making it world news, which might be why officials decided it was time for change, despite the Dutch Prime Minister’s attempt to brush off the character as harmless.
...controversy continues...