Just to share my story
It was (is?) common to scare the kids saying "the black man will come and take you away", it's even part of some lullaby. I don't know if it's used anymore, because in this part of my country traditions are disappearing pretty fast. My grandma chanted me this literally tens of thousand of times to lull me to sleep, and I don't even think SHE meant the black man was actually a man with black skin. I always imagined it as more of a shadow man without face, I only realized what it meant a couple of years ago. The origin is definitely racist but many people just don't see this probably.
My point is that we need a better way to communicate what's ok and what would be better to avoid in fear of hurting people, and I feel like this could be done way better than people do here -not in this thread, on this forum-.
Not every "white etero male" wants to offend and be racist, and shouting at them (us) doesn't help the cause, it just creates teams that maybe weren't even meant to exist in the first place.
In this case, the govern could just say to his people "Hey, Netherlands is made of lots of people coming from lots of different cultures and some of them see this as a way to make them feel just like slaves to our Santa Claus. To make this country a better place to everyone we chose the character face will now be blue, just like The Pokemon Company did with Jinx. This will not erase the festivity for the kids, it will just bring more kids to enjoy Christmas more. Kind regards, the ones who never won a World Cup."
TLDR: Help white people to understand and don't make this a war between clans, some of us white people really might not get it