For the past two weeks or so, you’ve seen me rage about the Sinterklaas “tradition” and black face, etc. I elaborated on this yearly celebration and explained how the Saint arrives on a boat with his black face “helpers”.

Behold because fate would have it that one such Saint, while arriving on his boat to the Dutch province of Drenthe, last Thursday, encountered some “logistics” troubles. Of the sinking kind. One can only hope that it is a metaphorical representation for the future of this “tradition” in its current incarnation.

(Nobody got hurt, by the way, just had their ridiculous antics captured on camera).

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