I texted a ton of people about the Dutch-Santa’s-helper-in-blackface thing, and these were the responses I got back --
This one Mexican-American undergrad I know from campus who graduated last year and is living at his parents in the suburbs (and who had actually known about this from some tv show he saw a while ago):
Yup, that’s the racist Dutch for ya.
My one (white) friend from Mississippi:
Unbelievable!
My one lawyer friend from Missouri:
I know!! U should read the David Sedaris piece about that. It’s hilarious! I bet u can find it online. I laughed so hard I cried when I read it.
My one friend from Buffalo who’s very petite and stylish and studies Hinduism:
What?! That sounds crazy!
My one friend with the cat:
I think I knew that. Black Peter? Or something like that? The Dutch did not invent pc...
I was surprised that a couple people knew about it, but had never told me, which you think someone would have, considering how much I trash the Dutch.
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