Crap, where should I start... Each year it's a common tradition in The Netherlands (my country) to celebrate something familar to Christmas. However, instead of a joyful obese man yelling ''ho-ho-ho'' everywhere he goes while riding a chariot in the sky accompanied by magical fairies and a demon that apparently punishes children when they have been bad (and even take them to hell in some instances), It's about an old man riding on a horse called ''Sinterklaas'', based on the actual Saint Nicholas unlike Santa Claus, which is more likely based on the Norse god Thor. Anyway, just like Santa Claus, Sinterklaas brings presents to children. However, instead of elves and fairies, Sinterklaas' helpers are figures known as ''Black Petes'' (Zwarte Pieten). Well, believe it or not but those child friendly happy fellas aren't actually black but rather pale when they aren't helping Sinterklaas by climbing through chimneys into houses at night to bring the children their presents. And what alot of black people in and outside my country fail to understand, is the simple fact that inside a chimney there happens to be alot of soot. Black Petes are always busy, day and night alike, that they have no time to wash the soot of their face after climbing through hundreds of chimneys. Hence the reason they are called ''Black Petes''. But according to alot of black people, and even United Nations human rights professor Verene Shepherd, the Sinterklaas feast is racist simply because the Black Petes resemble African slaves working for a white man. Oh and before I forget, the Sinterklaas feast would also bring back slavery to the modern age. Well, I am no racist myself, but the only thing I can do is wonder if those black people that support this lie have been eating a spacecake or something. Because you see, Sinterklaas is a very old man and he doesn't have magical powers unlike Santa Claus, and therefore it's impossible for him to do all the work alone. Poor old Sinterklaas doesn't even have the strenght to climb through one single chimney himself. He'd probably end up lying on the bottom with several bone fractures, only to be discovered by an unfortunate child the next morning. That's why he hired the Black Petes to help him, but now it seems some fundamental anti-racist bigots can't even see the diffrence between slavery and simply helping an old man to bring joy to children. For fudge sake, Does Sinterklaas carry a whip anywhere with him? He might in the least use his staff to hit a slacking Black Pete on the bottom to keep him at work, but nowhere can any signs be seen of so-called slavery.
The Sinterklaas feast is one of the little traditions we Dutch people celebrate. We welcome all cultures into our Nation, and in exchange we get complainments and criticism against our own bloody culture. And it seems even the U.N sticks it's nose into it. They want our own tradition to be removed, while barbaric traditions that don't even belong to The Netherlands such as the festival of sacrifice, are allowed to stay. So what do you people of MLK think, is the Sinterklaas feast really racist or not?