Posted on 12/19/2013 3:37:40 AM PST by lbryce
It’s come to this. Of all the absurdity that has emerged from the War on Christmas™ narrative, there has been nothing so surreal as a hard news anchor weighing in, authoritatively, on the racial identity of a nonexistent person, which is what happened on Wednesday night’s edition of The Kelly File. Discussing a Slate article that suggested a more inclusive Santa, host Megyn Kelly repeatedly informed “the kids” that “Santa Claus just is white,” and that “Jesus was a white man, too.”
Slate’s Aisha Harris wrote a thoughtful piece about the effects of cultural exclusion from such a dominant American symbol of childhood, and suggested that Santa Claus be transformed, not into a black man (good thinking, because Black Santa would get down exactly one chimney before getting shot in the face), but a penguin, “spare millions of nonwhite kids the insecurity and shame” that she remembers from childhood.
Of this essay about inclusion, Kelly says: “I kind of laughed and I said this is ridiculous. Yet another person claiming it’s racist to have a white Santa.”
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This whole debate is too stupid for words. Still, I wonder how the far left racist fringe would feel if conservatives said that their Martin Luther King was a white man who opposed discrimination and wanted everyone judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Santa is red....and Jesus is white
They are, ethnically, very different than Greeks.
White means blue eyes and blond hair?
When did this start?
There was no such country known as Turkey when St. Nicholas lived. Moreover, Nicholas was Greek by birth (and the area of Asia Minor where he was born was Greek).
The term “Turk” didn’t even come into being until the 6th century, 200 years after Nicholas’s death. And, even at that, the people known as Turks were from an area far to the east of where Nicholas was born (in Patara, which was on the SW coast of the Anatolian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean).
I’ve often wondered why Jesus looks Italian in all those old renaissance paintings. I always picture him as a young Billy Crystal.
Did anything I wrote suggest that I need or want your agreement? If I did somehow suggest that I take it back. Nick was a Turk in the same way that an 8th century native American was an Amerindian long before Vespucci was born
But then who were the Turks prior to their invasion of Anatolia?
Armenians???
Parthians???
Just as we know the Ptolemy, Cleopatra as an Egyptian.
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