The Netherlands is not perfect. It has its own racist history including slave trade and the colonization of South Africa and all that turned into. There is a segment of Dutch current society that is reactionary and anti-immigration.
It's for the Dutch to decide not us, but the history seems to establish that the Zwarte Piet character was originally a black slave. There are worse things that could happen than to reconsider this anachronism.
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