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...
