So it's the 5th of december, which means its time for 'Sinterklaas'. Sinterklaas is a real w.igga on a horse with his helpers who are painted black (yes blackface).
The Sinterklaas feast celebrates the nameday of Saint Nicholas (280-342), patron saint of children. Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop of Myra in present-day Turkey and became the patron saint of children based on various legends that include resurrecting children from death and saving them from prostitution.
Sinterklaas has a long white beard, wears a red bishop's dress and red mitre (bishop's hat), and holds a crosier, a long gold coloured staff with a fancy curled top. He carries a big book with all the children's names in it, which states whether they have been good or naughty in the past year.
"Zwarte Piet," Sinterklaas' helping hand Black Pete, has his origin in the bishop's legendary past. Three small Moorish boys were sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit. The bishop intervened and they were saved. To show their gratitude, the boys stayed with Sinterklaas to help him, tumbling and jumping on rooftops on Sinterklaas night to deliver the presents. Their black skin color may refer either to the job of chimneysweep, which is corroborated by their clothes, reminiscent of an Italian chimneysweep's costume and Pete's rooftop occupation, or to their Moorish background.
Sinterklaas and his Black Petes usually carry a bag, which contains candy for nice children and a "roe," a bunch of willow branches used to spank naughty children--really, a chimneysweep's broom. Some of the older Sinterklaas songs, make mention of naughty children being put in the bag and being taken back to Spain. The Zwarte Pieten toss the candy around, a tradition supposedly originating in Sint Nicolaas' story of saving three young girls from prostitution by tossing golden coins through their window at night to pay their father's debts.
Racism? I understand some people could be asshurt over it, but black kids here celebrate it too so who cares.
When kids are young the parents usually buy alot of gifts and put em in a bag:
They bring it to the neighbours who knock on the window and leave the bag in front, the kids come storming to the door yelling 'BLACK PETE'.
Which reminds me, me and a friend were once in class a couple years back on december 5th, and suddenly someone knocked on the window, my friend thought it was funny to yell 'BLACK PETE' but he didnt notice it was a black girl. Poor fellow got lynched by her friends.
Anyways, when kids get older and stop believing in it its just buying presents for each other with a little poem.
Meh i celebrated it at my gf's place with her parents, got a books, alot of lil stuff and a eau de cologne. After thanking the parents and sinterklaas i went upstairs and fucked the shit outta my GF
(had to put some real w.igga shit in it).SOOO that was part one, boring as fuck but i was bored and so is backstage right now.
