Posted on 12/02/2016 7:45:46 PM PST by nickcarraway
The Mall of America is celebrating diversity this holiday season.
For the first time since it opened in the early 1990s, a black Santa will hear children's wishes at the Minnesota mall.
"It's pretty historic," Landon Luther, co-owner of The Santa Experience, which runs a small photo studio in the mall, told NBC. "We want Santa to be for everyone."
Luther said he wanted a diverse bunch to pose for photos with visitors this year, so he sent staff members to a Santa convention in Bronson, Missouri.
There was a single black Santa at the convention, Texas resident Larry Jefferson. Luther got in touch with Jefferson, who agreed to a four-day contract at the country's largest mall. And so far, there's been nothing but holiday cheer for Jefferson.
"It's been nothing but positive. We're getting a lot of support," Luther told NBC.
In fact, Jefferson is so popular that he's now fully booked for the weekend that he is scheduled to appear at the mall.
Luther is hoping Jefferson will come back to the Mall of America for a longer stint as Santa next year.
He makes a good Santa. What turns me off is them having to say they’re doing it because Santa should be for everyone, and that’s just dumb. Are they saying that black children all these years never felt they really had a Santa because his skin wasn’t dark like theirs? Liberal mindset is just so full of double standards. They always trying to highlight the superficial differences between people and then claiming we should be color blind etc.
This is wonderful
I can’t tell you how happy this makes me
That’s crazy
Not many ......... where you live apparently
Probably knows a few
Why is this even a news story ?
LOL I meant he probably has a deep rich voice. :)
So, next year, be ready for a Santa with a vagina..........
I always enjoyed Brasilian tendacy to have several words for describing the color of women's skin. It's like they are describing colors on a rainbow. Lovingly you could call your woman 'minha morena' or 'minha nega' which would blow the minds of any American leftist. Maybe that's why I liked it but being so intimately connected with someone that you can say it with love is also appealing.
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