We have more than a thousand signatures, from people who care. But we know from the struggle for workers rights, for political rights, for womens rights, that these rights are not honoured by the establishment, merely because we ask nicely or have presented valid arguments. Change has always required struggle. We will need to protest and to take active steps to change things. The government will only change things when we show that WE will not tolerate it. It means doing things like protesting at a Sinterklaas welcome parade near you, contacting shops and telling them not to stock products featuring the racist caricature, contacting the parent-teachers association of your children. It also involves positive things, like giving positive feedback to shops and producers that have abandoned the racist caricatures. I will continue to collect signatures, especially as I am aware that there are a large quantity of pro-racist caricature people reading this (if you are pro-Zwarte Piet/pro-Black Pete, you are undeniably supporting a racist caricature.) In the article attached, a human rights lawyer writes " Meanwhile, there is evidence that what is meant to be a children’s holiday is negatively affecting the country’s young people. Should the Dutch government then not act to remedy this?" Of course they should. And they can start by stopping subsidising the NTR that make this influential racist childrens television series. They are not neutral bystanders in this matter of racism, but the Dutch government are, as subsidizers of the NTR, active proliferators of it....