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White Racism course causes controversy at Florida university
USA TODAY NETWORKThyrie Bland, The (Fort Myers, Fla.) News-Press

... Ted Thornhill, an assistant professor of sociology, will teach the course, starting in January. He plans to cover everything from ways to challenge white supremacy to the ideologies, laws, policies and practices in this country that have allowed for "white racial domination over those racialized as non-white," according to a course description ...

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...BlitzRss&utm_campaign=usatoday-newstopstories


 
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The racist Dutch character Black Pete may be turning into a hard-right rallying point
What are the holidays without a racist character and all the white people that defend it?

JARRETT LYONS

... Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, if you’re unfamiliar, is a character celebrated during Christmas time in the Netherlands. He helps Santa Claus (aka Sinterklaas) deliver gifts. Based on just that detail-free description, he seems pretty innocuous, all things considered ...

https://www.salon.com/2017/11/28/black-pete-zwarte-piet-hard-right/
A Black Pete during the arrival of Sinterklaas in Dokkum, northern Netherlands.(Credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

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Pantsuit Nation and the Tale of the Pumpkin Spice Allies
Today I’d like to tell you about Pumpkin Spice Allies, and why they represent such a problem for racial progress


Real Talk: WOC & Allies
The voices of WOC & Allies working against racism and oppression. PayPal.Me/RealTalkWOCAllies
Nov 29

... Pumpkin Spice Allies appear during special times of the year (just like your annoying family members at the holidays); but they aren’t there when the table is being prepared or when the mess afterward is being cleaned up. After enjoying your labor, they can be found on your front porch, where they hint that your efforts have fallen short, they are quick to criticize your labor, whose fruits they have just enjoyed ...



 
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The racist Dutch character Black Pete may be turning into a hard-right rallying point
What are the holidays without a racist character and all the white people that defend it?

JARRET LYONS

... Black Pete, or Zwarte Piet, if you’re unfamiliar, is a character celebrated during Christmas time in the Netherlands. He helps Santa Claus (aka Sinterklaas) deliver gifts. Based on just that detail-free description, he seems pretty innocuous, all things considered ...


A Black Pete during the arrival of Sinterklaas in Dokkum, northern Netherlands.(Credit: AP/Peter Dejong)

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That's a rather Americacentric view from Jarret Lyons, or just plain ignorant. Not everybody in the world follows the American holiday calender, the Dutch don't celebrate the 4th of july or Thanksgiving (robbing land of the natives?) for example, but do have Sinterklaas from the end of november till 5 december, Christmas is celebrated, but several weeks later. The Americans derived Santa Claus from Sinterklaas, but appearantly couldn't stand the idea of black characters on roofs and getting in people's houses to deliver presents to children and replaced them with elves. And it was the Americans that put the racism into facepainting, the Dutch have never known blackface or minstrel shows and now they come to blame the Dutch for facepainting like America has no racism issues left?

Besides the perspective, he didn't get the facts right either.
-The dispute is whether Zwarte Piet is racist, if people would agree it was racist, there would be no Zwarte Piet anymore.
-Dutch whites defend Zwarte Piet, that's true, but Dutch blacks also. This is not a black against white matter, that's projection of American race relations. Most people just don't get what the fuss is about, they don't mind soot Pete, they don't mind a black Sinterklaas (like in some old songs btw), they don't mind him riding a camel instead of horse, they do mind beeing called a racist though and they do mind a grim atmosphere around the children that comes with protests.

This year the annual celebration of Sinterklaas' arrival in the Netherlands was in Dokkum which is in famously stubborn region of the country calles Friesland with it's own flag, it's own language, it's own national anthem and it's famously stubborn people.
- The road was blocked to prevent the two buses of protesters reaching Dokkum before the celebration was over by Frisians, not by the hard right, alt right, extreme right or even mild right. That suggestion was debunked within hours by the alt left, which monitors the hard right closely. Any proper journalist could en should have known that.
- The road blockers didn't take sides in the dispute, they didn't want the celebration spoiled by protesters, counterprotesters and massive police presence. That spoils the fun for the kids, no matter how well behaved the anti-Piet protesters are.
- There was huge chauvinistic sentiment about people from Amsterdam coming to Friesland to tell the Frisians how to live and spoiling their party in the process. If it were Frisians to protest Zwarte Piet it would have been a different thing. But they don't care much about the dispute there, just like the people in most regions, the heated debate is something from the urbanized West of the country.
- The road block was executed quite clumsily but there was no violence or threat with violence at all. But it's illegal of course so the blockers will have to face a judge.
- The protesters decided to try again two weeks later, yesterday. The road blockers made a video to tell them they are welcome in Dokkum, that they still don't get why someone would protest Zwarte Piet but there's freedom of expression 364 days a year.
- The protest went ahead, a few speeches which must have made a few Frisians wonder whether is was about Zwarte Pete or racism in the USA, and music, not much happening. The only ones spoiling the atmosphere were the police. Appearantly the mayor and the police wanted overcompensate for their poor handling of the road block, because they were there in ridiculous numbers. It probably could have done without any police present. The protesters left singing 'thank you Dokkum'.

Charlottesville? Please, not everything is about America. Maybe instead of using some silly tradition in the Netherlands and add 'fake news' to say something about America that has already been said, a journalist might try to find out why this tradition has survived the last 5 decades.
 

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