It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race.

It's a horrible feeling to be mocked and ridiculed because of your race.

I don't think we're getting the empathy, and identifying with the situations that many African Americans experience. That's the problem with how the story is being reported.

I saw footage of a well-known pastor holding a Bible and saying, "This book says homosexuals should be killed."

I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists.

That is what I was more drawn to - creating stories while changing and altering reality.

[Zwarte Piet] is unfortunate, and just like the early American blackface films, if it offends a segment of the population, it shouldn't be shown again.