Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has admitted the controversial ‘Black Pete’ tradition where white people wearing blackface with conspicuous and exaggerated red lipsticks partake in an annual parade in the country is discriminatory. Rutte’s statement comes after several years of protest against the wearing of the “racist” blackface to depict the controversial Dutch Christmas character,...
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