Originally Posted by Konda

They are black because they climb through the chimneys to deliver the present

That's what most people in NL say, but that doesn't explain the big red lips and big golden ear rings.

Either way it's a children's tradition that was never a problem until a few years ago when the black people in NL suddenly started to complain that it was racist...

So now it's banned in a few counties, and other counties make it that they have to be in all sorts of colors (so also red, yellow, orange, etc. Petes)