Posted on 12/12/2013 7:33:20 PM PST by Impala64ssa
Fox News host Megyn Kelly has made herself the center of a racial controversy by declaring that Jesus Christ and Santa Claus are white.
On Wednesday night, Kelly was responding to an article by Slate writer Aisha Harris, who wrote an article entitled “ Santa Claus Should Not Be a White Man Anymore .”
The popular news host told viewers of “The Kelly File,” her hit FNC program, “When I saw this headline, I kinda laughed and I said, ‘Oh, this is ridiculous. Yet another person claiming it's racist to have a white Santa.’ And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white. But this person is maybe just arguing that we should also have a black Santa. But, you know, Santa is what he is, and just so you know, we're just debating this because someone wrote about it, kids.”
Of course, a number of critics were quick to point out that Santa Claus is a fictional character. And while he was based on St. Nicholas, a white man, his exact description is largely left up to individual interpretation.
However, after a guest on Kelly’s show defended the Slate article, Kelly extended her argument to further claim that the historical figure Jesus Christ was in fact Caucasian:
“Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn't mean it has to change. You know, I mean, Jesus was a white man, too,” Kelly said. “He was a historical figure; that's a verifiable fact — as is Santa, I want you kids watching to know that — but my point is: How do you revise it, in the middle of the legacy of the story, and change Santa from white to black?”
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She has her law degree. Let me know when you get yours.
I once talked to a guy who played drums for Jerry Lee Lewis back in the late fifties. He said one night they were driving to the next gig and got into a religious discussion. One of they guys said he did’t believe in God and Jerry Lee kicked him off the bus in the middle of nowhere. Maybe he thought the guy would be very scared and become a believer.
Heh! Soooo true. Worked with a lass who said it was to be pronounced “Scots”. I should’ve remember that. ;-)
maybe birds of a feather flock together and the other ones can flock themselves
Last I looked, Greeks were considered white.
Greeks don’t consider themselves white.
I know.
;^)
But honestly, I’m sorry you had to go through hell if what you said is true.
“Jesus was probably olive skinned....”
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Not necessarily — Jesus could have been as white as Albert Einstein.
That’s how you measure intelligence?
oh it is true but WTF
i asked my mom (she is now 75) the other day and she said of all i have seen you have tried the hardest and suffered the most but have never given up never given in and weird as this may sound she said for that i pray and worry for you the least
no..but he is patterned after a very real Saint Nicholas who gave gifts in some way...a very generous soul.
It makes sense.
They also believe that when you die, your soul goes to a garage in Bensonhurst.
“Santa” aka “Saint Nicholas” former bishop of myra (ancient greece) ...
He should look like any other turk or greek person. Not white, not black, just having a nice sunny tan :-)
“Kris Kringle is derived from Christkind, and is different than Santa Claus”
“A Christmas gift-bringer in Germany. The name “Kris Kringle” is a mispronounciation of the German name; the actual German figure is called “Christkind”, “Christkindchen” or “Christkindl” and is derived from the earlier Christkindl, which was introduced by Martin Luther. All of the German names mean “Christ child” and originally refer to the new-born Jesus.”
“The figure is distinct in origin and tradition from Santa Claus and Father Christmas. The Christkind (”Christ Child”) is the traditional Christmas giftbringer in Southern Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Südtirol and Liechtenstein.”
http://askville.amazon.com/santa-claus-called-kris-kringle/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=248853
“The English Father Christmas: A Separate Origin”
“The English Father Christmas seems to have had an entirely separate origin from Sinterklaas, being a personification of Christmas and a Yule-tide visitor - not a gift-giver - rather than a version of St Nicholas.”
http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/english.htm
“America and the Creation of Santa Claus”
“The American Santa Claus is generally considered to have been the invention of Washington Irving and other early nineteenth-century New Yorkers, who wished to create a benign figure that might help calm down riotous Christmas celebrations and refocus them on the family. This new Santa Claus seems to have been largely inspired by the Dutch tradition of a gift-giving Sinterklaas, but it always was divergent from this tradition and was increasingly so over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. So, the American Santa is a largely secular visitor who arrives at Christmas, not the 6 December; who dresses in furs rather than a version of bishop’s robes; who is rotund rather than thin; and who has a team of flying reindeer rather than a flying horse. At first his image was somewhat variable, but Thomas Nast’s illustrations for Harper’s Illustrated Weekly (1863-6) helped establish a figure who looks fairly close to the modern Santa. This figure was taken up by various advertisers, including Coca-Cola, with the result that he is now the ‘standard’ version of the Christmas visitor and has largely replaced the traditional Father Christmas in England.”
http://www.arthuriana.co.uk/xmas/pages/santa.htm
This ties in with another group that believes those called Jews in the Bible era were really celts.
Mohammed is claimed to have had red hair by many.
Same for David.
YOU LIE!!!!
It must really suck to be like them and go around your whole life with an inferiority complex.
Well it seems to me that if a person was to take up the argument one way or another that person would be admitting to his existence. I say it’s a trap and well played.
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