It's been years since this blog was updated. It's shocking that this debate is still going on, and that there is still a huge amount of local backlash for even considering to revise the negative racial stereotype of  Zwarte Piet / Black Pete.

Here is one of the latest attempts to try to help people understand. Well done Roger Ross Williams and crew.

'Blackface': Dutch holiday tradition or racism?
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/30/world/blackface-documentary-zwarte-piet-feat/

Videos

International:

Jolly Black Slaves, by Jeremy Levine http://current.com/items/77141702_jolly_black_slaves

Six To Eight Black Men, by David Sedaris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUHTDrca4s

The Zwarte Piet Revolution is About to Begin! by Boom Chicago http://www.boomchicago.nl/en/news-and-images/videos/index.cfm?i=2911

Flans on the Street - Zwarte Piet, by Boom Chicago http://www.boomchicago.tv/node/2218

Dutch:
Groen Brothers Reclame voor je eigen Zwarte Piet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2H6SXaWxuo

Dominee Gremdaat: Sinterklaas blijft leven http://www.vk.tv/opinie/article1091639.ece/Dominee_Gremdaat_Sinterklaas_blijft_leven

Zwarte Piet by Jan Mulder http://extra.volkskrant.nl/opinie/artikel/show/id/1342/Zwarte_Piet_(video)

Blogs, Forums, Articles

International:
Expatica forum: Zwarte Piet Is A Racist Disgrace (2008) http://forum.expatica.com/Zwarte-Piet-Racist-Disgrace-t108079.html&pid=794125

Expatica forum: Zwarte Piet (2006-2008) http://forum.expatica.com/Zwarte-Piet-t81247.html

Expatica forum: Zwarte Piet... good fun or racist stereotype? (2004-2006) http://forum.expatica.com/Zwarte-Piet-good-fun-racist-stereotype-t58880.html&gopid=445161#entry445161

Expatica forum: Annual Zwarte Piet debate (2003) http://forum.expatica.com/Annual-Zwarte-Piet-debate-t50454.html

On the Resistance against Black Pete http://resistancetoblackpete.blogspot.com (where many of these links came from)

Zwarte Piet 2008 http://www.tobysterling.net/2008/11/zwarte-piet-2008.html

Zwarte Piet is a racist caracature http://www.tobysterling.net/2007/11/zwart-piet-is-racist-caracature-part-ii.html

Expatica: Annual Zwarte Piet debate http://www.expatica.com/nl/life_in/feature/annual-zwarte-piet-debate-2394.html

Sinterklass is coming to town! (along with the annual Zwart Piet debate) http://www.justdazzle.com/archives/2005/12/sinterklass_is.html

Dutch Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet: innocent fun or a racist tradition? http://www.wb-online.nl/wispr_archives/w2002_34_01.htm

Zwarte Piet http://www.freshmd.com/fresh_md/2007/12/yesterday-we-ma.html

Amsterdam - Zwarte Piet (November 23, 2008) http://tgaw.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/amsterdam-zwarte-piet/

Dutch:
Actiegroep Zwarte Piet= Zwart Verdriet http://zwartepietiszwartverdriet.blogspot.com/

Een achterlijke cultuur met Zwarte Pieten, negerzoenen en VOC-fans http://www.gebladerte.nl/11283f80.htm

Zwarte Piet is Zwart verdriet : Surinamees site, Waterkant http://www.waterkant.net/suriname/forum/viewtopic.php?id=280&p=1

Pleidooi voor een 'bonte' of 'gestippelde' Piet http://www.ublad.uu.nl/WebObjects/UOL.woa/4/wa/Ublad/archief?id=1011992

Lezing met dia's over 'op zoek naar zwarte piet'. http://www.sint.nl/html/history/lezing.html

FUNX: Sinterklaasje kom maar binnen zonder knecht : Multicultural Radio Site http://www.funx.nl/index.php?option=com_fireboard&Itemid=140#m356476

Activism

International:

??? we need some links here!

Dutch:
Actiecomité 'Piet op de zwarte lijst' http://www.pietopdezwartelijst.nl/

Stichting Eer en herstel http://www.stichtingeerenherstel.nl

News Media and Academic Articles

News Media Articles:

HOLLAND'S POLITICALLY INCORRECT CHRISTMAS: Santa's Little (Slave) Helper (05 December 2008 Spiegel Online) http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,594674,00.html

Play points finger at Dutch holiday tradition (27 November 2008 NRC) http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2075517.ece/Play_points_finger_at_Dutch_holiday_tradition

Museum drops Piet march after threats http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/08/museum_drops_piet_march_after.php

Americans ban Sinterklaas http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2007/10/americans_ban_sinterklaas_says.php

Sinterklaas tops Dutch tradition list http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2008/11/post_1.php

Sinterklaas Tradition Pressured By Multicultural Society http://www.nisnews.nl/public/281106_1.htm

Scorn, praise after Dutch Santa's black sidekicks turn multicolored http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/01/europe/EU_GEN_Netherlands_Politically_Correct_Santa.php?page=2

Sinterklaas is coming to town - and some Dutch are upset http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1222/p25s01-woeu.html

Culture Clash: Sinterklaas Vs. Santa Claus -- In Netherlands, Neither Is Pure As Driven Snow http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19971212&slug=2577669

Dutch Santa Squabble http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1999/12/03/world/main72975.shtml

Academic Articles:
Who is black Peter? Ferrist State University: Museum of Racist Memorabilia http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/jan05/

Black Skin, White Masks Revisited Contemporary Post-Colonial Dilemmas in the Netherlands, France, and Belgium http://www.okcir.com/Articles%20V%20Special/EricMielants.pdf

The Long-term Historical Development of Racist Tendencies within the Political and Social Context of Belgium. International Journal of Comparative Sociology.2006; 47: 313-334 http://cos.sagepub.com/cgi/content/refs/47/3-4/313

Black Pete: Analyzing a Racialized Dutch Tradition Through the History of Western Creations of Stereotypes of Black Peoples http://www.humanityinaction.org/docs/Brown__Tavares.pdf

Zwarte Piet in a wider context of Dutch racism and its colonial history http://www.ithaca.edu/icjournal/04_jolly.pdf