In recent years more and more municipalities banned the use of blackface character Black Pete, but unfortunately it still happens. This year Kick Out Black Pete managed to change the festivities in several municipalites who decided to finally ban Black Pete. One town called Enter, in the eastern part of The Netherlands, didn’t go along and decided to ban the festivities all together, instead of just banning Black Pete.
In recent years more and more municipalities banned the use of blackface character Black Pete, but unfortunately it still happens. This year Kick Out Black Pete managed to change the festivities in several municipalites who decided to finally ban Black Pete. One town called Enter, in the eastern part of The Netherlands, didn’t go along and decided to ban the festivities all together, instead of just banning Black Pete.
They want to keep the tradition but when people are telling them to make the tradition less racist they just ban the festivities altogether?
Something tells me it was never about the tradition but just about not giving black people what they want