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Santa and Black slavery

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Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 12:48 am

It seems like most people have heard of Santa or Saint Nicholas these days but in America we really don't hear much about old Black Peter or Santa's accompaniment of Black servants.
I found this http://www.ferris.edu/jimcrow/question/jan05/ which sheds some dark light of the holiday and this critical article.

What do you think?

Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 5:46 am

Ye Gods that's twisted. Here I was deluded into thinking that the Dutch were more enlightened than a lot of Europe, and here they are stuck in the 1700s.

I don't see the Black Peter tradition ending, but that doesn't mean that it shouldn't.

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Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 6:57 am

I never did like Santa..........

Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 2:30 pm

I don't believe in Santa anymore ~nya. When I did believe in him, his name would be written the same way either my mom or dad writes ~nya. I stopped believing at age 8 (i think).

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