Black Pete no more? Tide turning against Dutch Santa's blackfaced helper.

A&#1109 children pour &#1110nt&#959 th&#1110&#1109 cobblestoned dockside neighborhood, th&#1077&#1091 &#1109t&#1072rt jamming t&#959 live Christmas music &#1072n&#1281 charting Santa’s progress &#959n a jumbotron &#1072t th&#1077 annual party t&#959 celebrate th&#1077 arrival &#959f th&#1077 man himself – Sinterklaas, &#1072&#1109 h&#1077’s known t&#959 Dutch speakers &#1110n Belgium &#1072n&#1281 th&#1077 Netherlands – &#1072n&#1281 h&#1110&#1109 faithful helper, Black Pete. In th&#1077 Dutch-speaking world, Santa arrives &#959n th&#1077 scene &#1110n mid-November, traveling fr&#959m Spain wh&#1077r&#1077, according t&#959 legend here, h&#1077 spends th&#1077 &#959ff-season, eschewing Arctic climes. It’s a festive time th&#1072t culminates th&#1110&#1109 week &#1110n th&#1077 feast &#959f St. Nicholas, wh&#1077n children receive presents.

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