Johan Derksen is annoyed by Tim den Besten and the way he behaves now that he has been accused of racism. “Be a big boy when you get yourself a twist.”
Tim den Besten sang ‘Sinterklaasje, come in with your servant’ in a spontaneous moment when he was on live television and saw his good friend Nicolaas Veul approaching in a boat during the Canal Parade. Then a huge number of people rose to call him a racist. “They said I’m a wild beast.”
Johan lashes out
The radio interview in which Tim is crying for minutes has caused quite a stir in our country. VI star Özcan Akyol is stunned. “If even obvious allies, like Tim den Besten, are no longer safe from these bloodthirsty maniacs, we are heading for a very scary society,” he wrote in his statement. column.
Colleague Johan Derksen agrees. “Yes, look, what that boy did, he did a little naively and not with malicious intent. Then there are people again… Because he pronounces the word servant, then that is racist again. Joh, a storm in a teacup, it’s not about anything,” he now says to The Telegraph.
Big boy
Johan does think that Tim is reacting way too hysterically. “Then you have to be a big boy, because then he will have the whole of the Netherlands over him, and that is very unreasonable, but then he will sit on the TV and cry while apologizing.”
He continues: “Then I think: well, Tim, you have such a waffel in every talk show and you have figured it all out, be a big boy for once when you get a twist on your ears.”
Presumably Johan is referring to the fragment from Tim who calls politician Mona Keijzer to order in the talk show Op1 when she more or less defends Zwarte Piet.
Panic
Why does Johan think Tim was so upset? “That boy is panicking. He always has a big mouth and dares to say everything when he sits there at such a table, but now he gets himself kicked. If that’s your first time, you’ll be shocked. I’m so slowly used to it, but then you startle. Then you must be a big boy.”
Finally, Private TV star Jan Uriot also gives his opinion: “Tim is not my friend and I don’t stand up for him, but I do think that we sometimes go a bit too far with these kinds of things. I have a Surinamese friend called Piet. Now imagine that he is sitting on a boat and I see Piet passing by and I call out: ‘Hey, Pietje!’, is it my turn too?”
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John about Tim: