Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his attitude towards 'Black Pete', a figure from pre-Christmas celebrations that has been criticised as a racist caricature, had undergone 'great changes' in recent years.
AMSTERDAM - Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said his attitude towards “Black Pete”, a figure from pre-Christmas celebrations that has been criticised as a racist caricature, had undergone “great changes” in recent years.
Rutte said his view had changed since 2013, when he said “Black Pete is just black and I can’t do much about that”.He was speaking on Thursday in a parliamentary debate about anti-racism protests in the Netherlands held in solidarity with U.S. demonstrations after the death in police custody of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis. .
Rutte said that since 2013 he had met many people, including “small children, who said ‘I feel terribly discriminated because Pete is black’.”“I expect in a few years there will be no more Black Petes,” Rutte said. Linda Nooitmeer, who chairs the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy, said Rutte’s comments were important in a country that had difficulty in acknowledging racism.
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