However, I have experienced the tradition since my earliest youth, and I have never, ever, seen anything racist about it.
Someone who prefaced this statement by claiming they were going to explain their disagreement with “an open mind”.
Yes, yes White person, you never saw anything racist in this “tradition”, hence, it is not racist. Even when Black people are getting arrested and beaten up to protest the racism behind it. I guess we should just tell them they have nothing to worry because some White Dutch do not take issue with it, amirite?
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