Dutch Slowly Recognizing That Zwarte Piet Is Racist & Weird

Dutch Slowly Recognizing That Zwarte Piet Is Racist & Weird
AP Photo/Peter Dejong

Around Christmastime, myriad Dutch adults and children have customarily donned frilly wigs, patted themselves in blackface, painted their lips red and japed around in costumes as "Black Pete," the dark-skinned helpers of Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas.

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