Black Pete
Saint Nick’s sidekick a bone of racial contention in Belgium and Holland
Across the Netherlands and Belgium, celebrations in which Saint Nicholas rolls into town surrounded by a host of Zwarte Piets (“Black Petes”)...
Santa’s helper - Black Pete - ‘is a negative stereotype of black people’, says court
An Amsterdam court has ruled that the traditional figure known as Black Pete - the sidekick to the Dutch equivalent of Santa Claus - is a negative stereotype...
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