Tradities

Ik zat thuis en keek toe terwijl de kerstboom vorm kreeg. Balletjes, lampjes en sliertjes gingen erin, hier en daar een kerstkransje, cadeautjes eronder en een grote witte ster in de top. Een jaarlijke traditie. En mijn gedachten zwierven naar het verhaal dat ik ooit gehoord heb, over een familie die met kerst altijd samenkwam….

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New party will take racism, afro causes to Dutch municipal council elections

AMSTERDAM — U-Buntu Connected Front (UCF), a new political movement that announced on Wednesday that it will be taking part in the March 2018 municipal council elections in the Netherlands, with racism and Afrophobia as its main targets. Party leader is Iwan Leeuwin, formerly from GroenLinks, who currently leads his one-man faction FIL in the…

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UWI professor still receives Dutch hate mail, 4 yrs after criticizing zwarte Piet

By Marvin Hokstam AMSTERDAM  — University of the West Indies (UWI) professor Verene Shepherd who in 2013 spoke out against the Dutch tradition of zwarte Piet, revealed over the weekend that she has since then continuously been the target of hate mail from people in the Netherlands who oppose changes to the embattled character blackface…

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