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Vincent Soekra of Vereniging Ons Suriname, Our Surinam Association, walks past murals where vandals daubed white paint over the faces of Black historical figures outside a Black cultural archive in Amsterdam in what one of the archive's founders called a far-right attack in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. The vandals also stuck stickers on the mural saying in Dutch &quot;soot-smudge Pete is genocide,&quot; a reference to the long-running and increasingly polarized debate about the children's holiday season character Black Pete, who is seen by Black activists and others as a racist charicature. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Mural at Black archive in Amsterdam vandalized

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-FILE- In this Saturday Nov. 16, 2019, file image, Zwarte Piet, or Black Pete, right, the controversial blackfaced sidekick of Saint Nicholas, rear left, walks in a parade in Scheveningen harbor, near The Hague, Netherlands. Saint Nicholas, the gift-bearing patron saint of children, was arriving in the Netherlands on Saturday amid a partial coronavirus lockdown that forced the cancelation of celebrations in many towns and cities. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Low-key arrival for St. Nicholas amid Dutch restrictions

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Nov. 18, 2017 file photo, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, arrives in Dokkum, northern Netherlands. The annual nationally televised arrival in the Netherlands of Saint Nicholas, known locally as Sinterklaas, will happen without public this year because of concerns about the coronavirus, the broadcaster that organizes the event announced Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, file)

No public at Dutch Saint Nicholas party due to coronavirus

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-FILE- In this Saturday Nov. 16, 2013, image The Dutch version of Santa Claus, Sinterklaas, or Saint Nicholas, and his blackface sidekicks &quot;Zwarte Piet&quot; or &quot;Black Pete&quot; arrive by steamboat in Hoorn, north-western Netherlands. Saint Nicholas is due to arrive in the Netherlands Saturday Nov. 16, 2019, in an annual children's party that has become the backdrop for increasingly acrimonious confrontations between supporters and opponents of his sidekick, Black Pete, a depictions which opponents say promotes racist stereotypes. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Dutch version of St. Nicholas has controversial sidekick

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press