Friday, August 28, 2015

U.N. to the Dutch: This blackface thing is a problem

U.N. to the Dutch: This blackface thing is a problem

A United Nations body called on the Dutch government to reform the country's longstanding winter-time blackface tradition of Zwarte Piet (or "Black Pete") on grounds that it was offensive and reflected "negative stereotypes." The ruling by the Geneva-based Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination is not enforceable, but is bound to stir an already […]











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