Posted on 12/02/2016 4:48:57 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
For the first time ever, the Mall of America is hosting an African-American Santa.
Santa's real name is Larry Jefferson, and he hails from Texas. (Don't let your kids read this.)
"It's no big deal, I'm still Santa, I just happen to be a Santa of Color," Jefferson told CNN affiliate WCCO.
Jefferson will spend four days taking pictures with families and listening to Christmas wishes, by appointment only.
"We are looking to have a Santa for everyone," Santa Experience owner Landon Luther told WCCO.
Luther met Jefferson at the Santa Convention in Missouri over the summer, and out of 1,000 Santas, Jefferson was the only black Santa.
Though this is a historic first for the nation's largest mall, Jefferson says... "Santa is still just Santa."
The Mall of America has been open for almost 25 years.
Looks like a nice enough guy.
Is there a story here?
The Mall of America seems to think so.
I posted this to show us all how racist the Enemy Media is.
I mean, REALLY? THIS is a big deal? LOL!
Who cares?
Jesus was an olive skinned Jewish rabbi
>>I posted this to show us all how racist the Enemy Media is.<<
Very good point.
Only if Elsa Hosk gets all of Kwanzaa.
We had a black santa at the college I attended years ago. It just happened he was the best personality for the job.
Yikes! Don’t. Show. Laz. He’ll stroke out!
Literally AND figuratively, LOL!
Maybe they don’t anticipate many white folks going to the Mall of America after the BLM riots and the huge amount of Somalis and Ethiopians that have been imported into the Twin Cities.
My sister and cousin who live in Minneapolis no longer go there.
He looks like Santa to me. God bless him!
Why is this a story?
Oh - so you have a black Santa, a white Santa, a brown Santa? Separate but equal?
Oh, no - I get it. A white Santa can't be "for everyone" - only a black Santa can be "for everyone".
I remember reading an article by Brummett Echohawk (Pawnee) in which an Oklahoma Indian school is visited by an Indian Santa in beads, feathers and buckskins. The children loved it!
If Jefferson is from Texas, he better have Christmas Cowboy boots!
Beats me. We've had black Santas in Atlanta since the 60's (and probably before then in the black neighborhoods).
I’m cool with that, looks like a nice guy with a good heart
Cultural appropriation. /s
Imitation...flattery...assimilation...white people don’t go to the malls anymore, they all shop online.
Not going to hold my breath waiting for “Black Reagan”, but that would impress me more than Black Santa.
Black Santa...white Santa.Black Jesus...white Jesus.Is there an issue here?
That is EXACTLY what they're saying.
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