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Though Black Pete is the most beloved blackface character in European culture, he’s not the only one.
If you look at Belgian comic strips like Tintin, French ones like Asterix and Obelix, or Dutch ones like Sjors & Sjimmie, you can see versions of blackface caricatures everywhere.
Black Pete, no matter how innocent the Dutch might think him to be, normalizes these portrayals.
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