You may have heard of our Dutch tradition of Saint Nicholas, at the 5th of December. It's a national holiday, where people give presents to one another and such things. A bit like Christmas in most countries (and some here do both).

 

Now, in this tradition is too (as you may even have heard in the news recently; there's quite a lot of fuzz about it) Black Pete, the helper of Saint Nicholas. Now, I am pretty sure it is nowhere in the tradition that he's a slave, but apparently there are some people in the Netherlands that think that he - a core part of the tradition - should be forbidden because of racism, which is total - and I'll shorten this word up because I'm not allowed to use the full word - BS.

 

What I would like to ask you all, is to like this facebook page, (if it's not underlined, this one: https://www.facebook.com/pietitie) which is a petition that Black Pete should NOT be forbidden. After just 36 hours, there are already one and half a million likes, but more is always better, and it would be like forbidding Christmas in the USA if it would be forbidden.

Edited October 24, 201312 yr by Leyrann

Where is the link?

Click on "this facebook page". It's blue underlined. :)

Got it. It was all green and not underlined

Huh.

 

I'll edit it just to make sure everyone can see it.

er...

Yes?

nvm