It’s getting weirder….
Oh near God! Tell me it isn’t true. I’m actually pretty sure Santa isn’t always white. When I was a kid, I saw black going into a black church. I survived, with my Santa-vision intact. My mother told me of course that Santa was black–why would little black children want to talk to white Santa. I bought into it. I was also old enough to know that Santa couldn’t be at both Miller & Rhodes and Thalheimers both at the same time so there had to be surrogates for the REAL Santa. (Confession: I was terrified of Santa and my mother said “colored children”.)
The supposed “War on Christmas” is absurd and is simply a figment of right wing imagination. To use white Santa as the prop just shows the length some folks will go to to play the victim. News flash, Foxies, Santa isn’t real. Santa represents the spirit of Christmas time. Spirits can be any race one wants them to be. More news flash, Foxies, Santa isn’t supposed to be at the manager scene. He is supposed to be at the North Pole, riding herd on those elves, making sure that the flying reindeer at in tip-top shape for their ride around the world, all in one night.
Let’s get real. Please! There are so many things to get upset over in the world. An imaginary war of Christmas with General Bill “O’Reilly” Patton defending the Day is simply not high on my list of clear and present dangers.
What’s the beef? The first Saint Nicholas was a Greek bishop from Lycia in Anatolia. However, if he made a lot of rounds of his bishopric in Turkey, he might have gotten a good tan.
I thought Santa was Irish and arrived by helicopter when it rained. I’m glad they didn’t have all this meaningful discussion when I was a kid. Probably would have destroyed the helicopter theory.
This isn’t even worth discussing.
I thought Santa was female…
At 8 am I delivered Santa to the Broad Run station in Manassas for the VRE Operation Lifesaver Santa Train this morning. I think Santa is whatever you think Santa looks like 🙂
I agree Cindy.
Ah yes, snow, sleighs, reindeer, and fireplaces … in Africa? I don’t think sooooooo.
That would be a magic carpet pulled by a team of camels. Don’t be ridiculous, SA,
Aha, it just snowed in Cairo for the first time in 100 years. Northern Africa.
Well it’s always snowy at the North Pole so Santa requires a sleigh and reindeer. He probably has small fleet stations around the world for emergency repairs and when he needs to swap out the sleigh for a helicopter, an outrigger, small plane or flying carpet. He’s a talented guy – getting around the world with its various climates and unexpected weather is one of his main tasks. I’d say he’s got it down. So is appearing to children. Most humans see what they want to see. Children see good. It’s the adults that don’t.
Its because they sit at the little table on holidays.
Santa was spotted a couple of times at our house kissing Mrs. W and whispering sweet nothings in her ear. If I ever catch that SOB myself, I’ll thrash him until his beard falls out!!!
Megan Kelly’s righteous anger at the idea of a non-white Santa is hilarious. You have to laugh. The fact that she then brings Jesus into it makes it all the funnier. You can’t make this stuff up.
Then when you consider that she’s typically one of the brighter bulbs on that channel – certainly as compared to a Gretchen Carlson – you have to laugh some more.
My grandson asked once what color Santa was – black life his mom and grandma or white like me. We told him that there were Santas of different colors running around. We used to have a black Santa figuring in the house; didn’t know that could move the megan kellys of the world to anger.
Can somebody please continue this with Kelly … assert that Santa is sometimes gay? She might rise to the bait on that one.
Santa is sometimes gay, Jesus was a flaming liberal, and that’s just the way things are.
black Santa “figure”, I meant to say – a Christmas decoration. Never would have thought that anyone could get upset about it.
This is precluding more meaningful discussions of course, about the effects of indoctrinating children into the commercial ritual of Christmas, or the idea that a paternal god/father figure is watching them and rewarding them with toys. Instead we’re all discussing the imaginary paternal figure’s race.
If someone prints up “Santa Claus is Black” T-shirts I’m in for one.
Santa is a Black atheist?!! Who would have thought.
Watch out folks. That ‘naughty list’ many actually exist! No one has proven that it doesn’t yet. Just like the Easter bunny, and the tooth fairy. Although I think they have proven that the tooth fairy was most likely born in California.
If you watched SNL last night you found out that the reason that ‘secret santa’ is a secret is because he’s black, and Drunk Uncle was upset because now we have ‘black friday’. He couldn’t understand why the whole month of February isn’t enough!
I did and I learned a lot, honest, I really did.
It’s not uncommon for people to depict their objects of worship as having a likeness to themselves. The paintings of Jesus from the Renaissance era showed a fair skinned, light colored hair European. The Virgin of Guadalupe has brown skin. Liberals describe Jesus as having a bleeding heart. Conservatives describe him as supporting family values and guns. Some people are able to recognize the bias within themselves and grow.
So I don’t think Megyn’s bias is a particularly egregious personal defect. However, her refusal to acknowledge her bias after having been rebuked shows blatant ignorance.
Thinking about it more, and the context of the discussion – whether black Santas are okay or not – and her actual ANGER about the subject … I’m gonna go ahead and say that the woman’s subconscious bigotry was in full effect.
@Wolverine
He certainly isn’t hanging out in church at Christmas.
Which reminds me, Punchak. Mrs. W has collected some Christmas creche scenes from sub-Saharan Africa — carved from thorns, carved from ebony, fired from clay, all by African artists. And every figurine, including Jesus, has Black African features. However, she never ran across a Black Santa carving. There must be some significance in that…..Oh, what the heck am I doing?!!! George Harris is right…mumble, mumble, mumble……