The Dutch West India Company and the Dutch East India Company, which were the biggest slave trading companies in history, enjoyed monopolies over the shipment and sale of African slaves.

The Dutch Reformed Church was the state church of the apartheid regime and a fervent supporter of apartheid; it inspired and condoned rape, abduction and murder.

Nobody would be riding a racist Wilhelmina golden coach today in The Hague if the Dutch hadn’t swept unpleasant aspects of their history under the rug.

FEAR IS PURGATORYI have died many timesAnd my episodes of deathGave me the powerOver the greatest fearsThe fear of lifeThe fear of self

There is no clock on Cupid’s arrows; he can fire an arrow dipped in the blood of the young at the heart of the old and love will still catch fire and blossom.

Some wounds never heal even with the passage of time; they need to be exposed so someone else to help cure them.

Some say your whole life appears before you like a TV when someone is about to shoot you, but the reality is you barely have any brain control beyond thinking about the muzzle and the finger on the trigger.

MUSEUMS OF INFAMYA dynasty that thrived onAnd blatantly celebratesRacism and anti-SemitismBelongs not to the 21st centuryBut the throes of historyIn the museums of infamyUnder the banner ‘House of Orange

There is hardly any other country that got as filthy rich through human trafficking and slave trade as the Netherlands.

Bigotry will always find a way where people are kept in a bubble of ignorance.