Black Pete

Heyy,

Normally I choose to talk about light topics, but this time I wanted to talk about something I kinda want off my chest. The last few days it's hot topic of every conversation in the Netherlands and a little in the rest of the world, the black Pete discussion. Personally I don't really care whether they stay or not, but I understand the people who don't want it and the people who do. And I think both parties are too stubborn to listen to each other.

There are good reasons to not want it. The history of black Pete is, that he was a slave of Sinterklaas and so it's a constant reminder of the oppression. And most people, especially white people don't know this, because it’s not learned at school. The time where the Netherlands had slaves is not a topic discussed in the education, probably because they still a shamed. So some of them think the black people want to rune their holiday. Or they know this part, but think the black people are exaggerating. Here they are wrong tho, not ever will slavery be a small thing even if a couple of years have past.

But, at the end of the day, it’s not what the grown ups think about black Pete. It’s a children’s holiday! What do you think? Do we need to keep it or not?

X heart O