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Nonsense. Blackface is an American word for an American phenomenon that doesn't exist and has never existed in continental Europe, for reasons obvious to anyone with a little understanding of European history. Zwarte Piet is not only younger than blackface, it was never meant to lampoon blacks or be derogatory. That doesn't mean it's all right, but the intent to lampoon an be derogatory is what makes blackface blackface. Europe is not America, and certainly nothing like the Netherlands when it comes to race relations. America is particularly racist and particularly backward, the Netherlands has never been very racist and is particularly post racial the last 70 years.You have a right to your opinion but Black face, is a derogatory, lampooning of Black people that has been done in Europe, for hundreds of years, , most well known was
Black Piet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwarte_Piet