Protest…
Last Saturday I attended the “Kick out Zwarte Piet” demonstration to document it held at the city of the Hague.
In the Netherlands where I live we have a holiday named “Sinterklaas” or in English, Saint Nicholas.
Saint Nicholas is accompanied by Black Piet, and that is where the whole story is about.
Black Piet is portrayed as a black face. And in these times while we try to fight racism so hard on one hand, and the world is getting more polarized on the other. Is there really still a place for a character like Black Piet…
Pro or Against Piet. This is a tumultuous time which exposes some horrible cracks in the, for the outside world, the very tolerant society of the Netherlands.
And that alone makes it an important time for Dutch history…
For me… That means it needed to be documented.
Tolerance…
If you are curious where I stand on this topic…
I am against racism, intolerance, and discrimination in any, way shape or form. Period.
We should go back to Krampus anyway.
He is way cooler and is the first OG of Piets…
