Should the ACLU pay Santa a visit?

Now ‘tis Xmas season, time for Sinter Klaas (who the Dutch insist is NOT Santa, Coca-Cola’s sanitized version of the saint) to descend on the masses December 5th and again on December 25th. Don’t ask me. I’m not sure why he comes twice (it is said that once Nieuwe Amsterdam became a British stronghold, the English Protestants there did not observe saints days, so Sinter Klaas' visit was moved to the 25th, which today is more widely celebrated.) All I know is that Sinter's accompanied by Zwarte Piet (Black Piet), who doles out candy to good boys and girls and whacks the bad ones over the head. They are then shoved into Sinter's sack and kidnapped to—of all of the most horrible and wretched places on earth—Spain. What’s disturbing to me, princess from the land of (erroneous) Political Correctness, is that to play Zwarte Piet you must cover yourself in black makeup, much like white actors of yesteryear. No self-respecting Surinamese immigrant here opts to play the part, so instead the Dutch do it. The result: tar babies with afro wigs cruising the streets. The ACLU would have a heyday here...