Many people now don’t like the use of Zwarte Piet, this is because the helpers who dress up as Zwarte Pieten are normally white people who wear black makeup as this is seen as racist. So now you will often see more Sooty Piet’/’Roetpiet (‘Sooty’ or ‘Chimney Peter’) where people just have soot and dirt smudges on their face rather than being completely made up with black makeup.