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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoa, I just googled this and a ton of pictures of people in black face showed up. I'm with you, OP.[/quote]

I spent my teen years in the Netherlands.  When we teens dressed up in blackface and silken clothes to "trick" the local children into believing in the Sint for just a year longer, we weren't thinking about slaves, racism or anything besides the fun of it.  I get it, and I get the attachment to the tradition -- it was fun.  But nothing I wrote changes the racist story underlying this tradition, or the fact that it is time to replace it with something less offensive. We are less ignorant and our society is more diverse in 2015 than we were in 1980.  We are more mature on these matters, and should act it.

And please don't tell me that the black peters were "companions, not slaves."  "Companion" was simply the word used for an enslaved personal servant.
  
OP, I hope you can find a way to make peace with your mom on this.  Act with kindness, respect that she is old and remember that you just rejected something dear to her.  That said, it is important that your children observe your rejection of this tradition.[/quote]

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