Next we can ask why all the black Malcom Xs and Martin Luther Kings in those civil rights movies? Why all those real indians in those "Cowboy and Indian" westerns? Why do all those short people get to play the elves? How come all those lawyerrs get to make money off court cases they represent? Why do they get to represent people in the first place?
Look, Tammy, Santa is a representation of "Saint Nicholas" who was, shockingly, white.
Her parents probably never told her "Because that's just the way it is."
These women probably have their own agenda that goes beyond Santa.
But if you visit other parts of the world, or read about other cultures and folklore, their version of Santa Claus is not necessarily a big fat white guy. They've adapted their fictional "Santa" character into their own culture. He can look like whatever the people decide to make him look like.
Santa and Mrs Claus and the elves are fiction. Malcom X and MLK are not.
I am no comfortable with minority kids repeatedly seeing the white man in a "Santa Claus" role.
You mean like Don Diamond, Edward Everett Horton and Frank DeKova?
Yeah, why an Easter Bunny? Why not an Easter Horse or an Easter Cow?
Wasn't Saint Nicholas from the Middle East?