Originally Posted by Bjorn_Tasty1

Black Pete, only a few % against it and call it racism. They got a lot of airplay by the so called left wing tv stations that always must take care of the hurting of minority feelings. Cause they couldn't win the discussion they started protest at children party's to ruin the tradition with protest and get more attention. And ofcourse, they got more hate from people that like Black Pete. (action - reaction).

The whole discussion gave the right wing politician Geert Wilders at least 6 extra votes, cause people have enough being called racist even by the UN. And also some new-dutchman started their own political party saying everyone is racist and a former slave owner and islamofobic White must be reminded of how bad black people it had in history, islam is good and also for feminist etcetra. But they never picked cotton, i never owned a slave.

Next, all statues, street names, school names and every name that is connected with the VOC must be changed. After Black Pete, wiping out VOC history as something that was only bad. And than the next issue will be paying money for slavery or so. And what will be next? Maybe forbid names of people like "Piet" cause it could be a VOC captain 300 years ago.

And than the politicians wonder why a lot of people in Holland have enough of the EU telling them what to do and immigration problems.

And Holland is a little like the usa in small. The people against Zwarte Piet live in the Randstad (big cities like amsterdam, The Hague, Rotterdam) while in the rest of Holland just say fuck you to them. If they don't get threatened and put under pressure.

I wonder when the will forbid the name "Peter Stuyvesant" on any building or place.