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Sylvana Simons political party today is called Bij1.

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In the Netherlands there is a alternative version of 'Black Lives Matter'. Black and white activists against the Black Face Zwarte Piet grow stronger and stronger. The tensions between Pro- and Anti-Black Pete grew the last couple of years. In interviewed a Black teacher who faced negative approaches by white kids and parents against her and her children. I want to disconnect the issue if 'Black Pete' is an old tradition and part of the Dutch heritage. Fact is that this woman and her children were called 'Black Pete' by white children and that she was disturbed by that. Black foreign tourists from the USA, Great-Britain, African countries and other countries were confronted with Black Petes in the public space. A few years ago I wasn't aware of the Black Pete confrontation for Black Pete. Under here you see myself as Black Pete about 9 years ago when the Black Pete issue wasn't a big issue. Today I wouldn't act as Black Pete anymore.


In Arnhem at a Sinterklaas party of friends of mine on 5 december 2010. I am the Black Pete with the green towel.


In Arnhem at a Sinterklaas party of friends of mine on 5 december 2010. I am the Black Pete with the green towel.







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My friend Bas, who loves Reggea, Ska, Mento, Rocksteady, Black US Blues, Rhythem 'n Blues and Soul music. His life is dedicated to Black music and being a gardener with his gardening company. Here he was a Rastafarian Pete.
Me playing the funny entertainment Black Pete. Excactly this persona got huge criticism of the anti-Black Pete movement. They see it as a colonial racist portrayal of the naive, childish, obedient, silly and stupid Black person, represented by the character of the Black Piet. The figure of the White Bishop Sinter Klaas on his white horse with his bishop's staff represents in their view the white colonial, the slave owner, the white master.





This is the past, I will probably never be Black Pete again, since I realized the impact on Black and coloured people. The penny dropped with me.

[pieter]

This is my interview with the Black teacher who faced negative approaches by white kids and parents against her and her children. I also talked with a Black Labour council woman who took the teacher serious. She said: "We have to talk about this." The white guy of the Socialist Party defended the Black Pete tradition and the Pro-Black Pete people.

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American woman in the Netherlands is shocked by the Anti-Black Pete demonstration


Demo against Dutch Public tv broadcast corporation NPO by anti-Black Pete protesters who protested against the broadcast of the traditional Sinterklaas optocht (arrival of Sinter Klaas) on the Dutch national tv.


Russel Brand and Black Peter: Our Colonial Hangover

[pieter]

It is crazy that this man was arrested because he wore a Black Pete is racism T-nuts. This a violation of the freedom of opinion, free speech and freedom in general

If only one opinion is allowed (the Pro-Black Pete stance) than there is no freedom of opinion and speech. I like the radical American freedom of speech in which Neo-Nazi's, the KKK, the New Black Panther Party, the Nation of Islam, Black Lives Matter activists, Pro- and anti-abortion activists, Free Palestine and Zionist demonstrators are allowed to march.

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Sometimes the sentiments rise high

This idiot attacks a Free Pappoua activist, who was not a Pro-Zwarte Piet activist. He took her for a Anti-Black Pete activist.

Sadly enough this same woman was surrounded by an aggressive racist, xenophobe, primitive crowd who shouted racist insults at her before the beating incident

That stupid white man says: "Go back to your own country, beat it."

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Frisian Pro-Black Pete activists block anti-Black Pete activist bus which came from Holland to Friesland (Frisia)

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Dutch Roman Catholic priest Father Roderick explains the Dutch Sinterklaas tradition


Washington Post Global Opinions Editor Karen Attiah says the holidays in the Netherlands are wonderful, and would be even better without the black-faced helper called "Zwarte Piet."

[pieter]

Briliant comedian. Very true and very accurate.

[pieter]

Dear friends,

The Netherlands although being a progressive, liberal and secular humanist country has a history, past, heritage and traditions and customs that go back to the Middle ages, the so cold Golden age (17th century), and the less political correct 18th, 19th and early (Frist half of the) 20th century, the forties, fifties and early sixities before the progressive wave that started in 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 and early seventies. Like often the Netherlands were later then other countries in progress and change. Where America had the Bebop or bop style of jazz developed in the early to mid-1940s, Rhythem 'n Blues and Rock 'n Roll and the Beat Generation literary movement ((Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957)) in the fifties and the Summer of Love in 1967, the Netherlands had their Provo movement ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provo_(movement)), New Left ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left ), the Man Vrouw Maatschappij ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_Vrouw_Maatschappij ) and the Hippie movement that entered the Netherlands due to young American Hippie backpackers, city nomads and bohemians that entered the Netherlands and other European countries, living in public parks, in tents, carvans, squat houses and on the couch of Dutch and other European progressive, leftist counter culture friends.

The generation of 1968, New Left, Neo Marxist, Radical liberal, radical democratic, leftwing socialist, anti-Vietman war movement, Peaceniks, the student rebellion movement (Paris/Berlin, Dutch student representatives), followers of the liberal, a socialist and a pacifist British philosopher, social critic and political activist Bertrand Russell of the Russell Tribunal, also known as the International War Crimes Tribunal, Russell-Sartre Tribunal, or Stockholm Tribunal, a private body organised in 1966 by Bertrand Russell, and hosted by French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre. And followers of "Danny the Red" Daniel Cohn-Bendit, student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in Paris, France, and the prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s Rudi Dutschke. Dutschke advocated a "long march through the institutions of power" to create radical change from within government and society by becoming an integral part of the machinery. This was an idea he took up from his interpretation of Antonio Gramsci and the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. In the 1970s he followed through on this idea by joining the nascent Green movement.






Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM FRS[64] (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, essayist, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.[65][66] At various points in his life, Russell considered himself a liberal, a socialist and a pacifist. Russell was a prominent anti-war activist and he championed anti-imperialism.


Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic. He was one of the key figures in the philosophy of existentialism and phenomenology, and one of the leading figures in 20th-century French philosophy and Marxism. His work has also influenced sociology, critical theory, post-colonial theory, and literary studies, and continues to influence these disciplines.


Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit (born 4 April 1945) is a French-German politician. He was a student leader during the unrest of May 1968 in France and was also known during that time as Dany le Rouge (French for "Danny the Red", because of both his politics and the colour of his hair). He was co-president of the group European Greens–European Free Alliance in the European Parliament. He co-chairs the Spinelli Group, a European parliament inter-group aiming at relaunching the federalist project in Europe. He was a recipient of the European Parliament's European Initiative Prize in 2016.


Alfred Willi Rudolf "Rudi" Dutschke (7 March 1940 – 24 December 1979) was a prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s.



The present wave of Rightwing Populism, National conservatism, Nationalism, ethnocentrism, isolationalism (hard Eurosceptic stances, anti-Brussels attitudes, Pro-Brexit sentiments in continental European countries and Pro-Trump sentiments amongst the same people), Xenophobia and anti-elitism is a reaction on that generation of '68, the young academic intellectual followers of Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Rudi Dutschke. That generation in the seventies became the Social Democratic (New Left, leftwing branch of Social Democracy, who replaced or competed with the rightwing wing of old Social democratic leaders) councillors and aldermen in city councils, mayors, top civil servants (secretary general at ministries and departments), provincial councillors, members of the parliament (Second Chamber; Tweede Kamer) and the Senate (First Chamber; Eerste Kamer), university professors or administrators, Union leaders, Primary school and high school teachers, Greenpeace and Amnesty International activists and employee's, developoment aid workers in Africa, Asia and Southern-America, theatre actors and actresses, movie directors, writers, poets, artists, journalists, pyschologists, sociologists, philosophers, literary and art critics, art historians, art curators of museums or Museum directors, leftwing entrepreneurs, civil servants and social workers.

In the seventies, eighties, nineties and the early 21th century this 68 generation was dominant in Dutch politics, the Dutch education system, the Dutch world of press and media, the cultural world, the world of the universities, in city councils and in the Dutch parliament. The generation of 1968 was first trained and experianced in action, organizing protest marches and protest movements, political theory and practice, militant action, and pressing and implementing social policies. This was the Western anti-Aurhoritarian left which had little to few connections to the Commmunist regimes of the Central- and Eastern-European Socialist (read communist) peoples republics. The protest and generation of 1968 wasn't supported by the French Communist party (Parti communiste français, PCF), nor by the German communist party (KPD). Therefor the generation of 1968 was largely formed by radical, leftist, middle class and highclass students, and some university students with a working class background. The failure to gain the support of the French communist party and the French Communist Labour Union caused a schizma in the French leftwing world.


The generation '68 student protest failed to get the support of the French Communist Party


The generation '68 student protest failed to get the support of the French Communist Party


The generation '68 student protest failed to get the support of the French Communist Party

The present day Rightwing Populist rise of rightwing national conservative far right nationalist parties in Western-Europe, Central-Europe, Eastern-Europe and Southern-Europe (Italy, France, Greece and Spain) is a direct opposition, revolt and aversion reaction against the Pro-European, cosmopolitan, internationalist, leftwing liberal Generation of 1968. The 68 generation today is more moderate than they were in 1968, because the 68-ers have decades of experience with pragmatic politics, coaolition building, negotiating, diplomacy, mediation, ploicy making, the political practice in their countries and thus in the local (Muncipality), regional (Provincial or Bundesland level), and national and European levels. A lot of Leftwing and centre left Europarliamentarians are of the '68 generation. The '68 generation in fact succesfully followed Rudi Dutschke's theory of "long march through the institutions of power".

The Rightwing Populist Dutch leader of the Forum for Democracy party, Thierry Baudet quite openly stated that he and his party acted against the achievements, ideals, convictions and culture of the generation of '68. His party philosopher, ideologue and Senate member for the Forum for Democracy, Paul Cliteur often speaks about the 'Cultural Marxism' of the generation of 1968, which in his view is dominant in Dutch journalism, culture, the education system and media.

Belgian Flemish Germanist, author and philosopher and member of the '68 generation Wim van Rooy (born Antwerp, 1947)


Cheers,
Pieter