Why Would White Pete Care About Black Health?

That was a close call. The morning after my last post, I could no longer be active. I had run out of fuel. All I could do was take some medication, and remain inactive. Saving grace. The medication worked faster than I had expected. I stopped sliding into oblivion. Immanent danger. My body still did not like the medication. The toxic pills always help at first, if taken in a low dosage, but then my body goes into attack mode. It does not have the energy to keep me active, but it knows where to find the energy to fight the medication. I came to solve that puzzle too.

You Do Not Like Your Black Pete Job? Let White Pete Help You Find Another One.

As an introduction to the second part of the list, I feel like sharing a summarized story. Two years ago, a ‘befriended’ white lawyer looked at me, and told me to look for a job where I could work with my hands. Even though, he has asked me for ‘advice’ on many legal issues, he felt that it would be better if I did not practice law. That it would be therapeutic for me to just find a job working with my hands. Like he had done himself many years ago. He had been a gardener for a while.

No, I did not curse, nor spit, nor did the Kill Bill thing to stop his heart from beating. I just looked at him, and realized that he was not the smartest of the bunch of racist lawyers. How did he suppose that all the black letters appear on the white paper? If not for my hands?! Never mind the blatant racism

Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution

Article 1
All persons in the Netherlands shall be treated equally in equal circumstances. Discrimination on the grounds of religion, belief, political opinion, race or sex or on other grounds whatsoever shall not be permitted.

Article 1 of the Dutch Constitution stands for equality before the law and the prohibition of discrimination. However, when it comes to Sinterklaas en Zwarte Piet (Santa Claus and Black Pete) the Dutch act as if article 1 only applies to the white Dutch. They consider their blatant exhibition of racism in the form of their blackfaced Petes - and thus ridiculing Black people as a whole - as their constitutional right, instead of a violation of other people’s human rights. Especially the Black Dutch from the former Caribbean colonies are not entitled to equality before the law nor can they successfully claim protection against discrimination.