Posted on 12/15/2013 5:53:11 PM PST by Kaslin
I do not know who Megyn Kelley is.
I only have one problem with a black Santa Claus: It scares the kids.
In fact, I got roped into playing Santa Claus at a local orphanage for several years running because they expected their Santa to be lighter skinned. I didn't mind doing it. The kids were great and the staff invited my family along. Even though I spoke quite passable Japanese, they wanted me to ham it up by speaking mostly English which my daughters would interpret for them.
During the years we were there (1988-2002), Disney stopped the release of the original Song of the South in the United States . . . which was the main reason we got the Japanese version.
Her prime time career is only starting and her ratings are through the roof. The MSM is all over her concerning this silly argument because they are afraid of her meteoric rise in cable news.
Is anyone allowed to state the obvious, that the fictional character of Santa Claus is pictured as white 99% of the time? How is that offensive to any one without an ax to grind?
I e-mailed Kelly the following article and also suggested she get it historically correct about Jesus, too. I just saw on the Drudge Report that a teacher was disciplined for saying Santa was White. This race thing is getting insane!
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/news/2004/nick.html
That is funny. I had no idea whatsoever that you live/lived in Japan.
Not only was Christ Jewish, he showed no multicultural sensitivity in picking all twelve of his apostles— they were 100% Jewish too.
Yes, but we do have a lot of lazy bastards that are White too. There’s just no ethic any longer.
I managed to get hold of the original version years ago when the internet was just becoming another tool of the masses.
Uh, Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in Turkey, so I think he would have been considered Caucasian. He certainly wasn’t from Africa, though in the Dutch culture, St. Nicholas usually had a helper called Black Peter.
History: Nicholas was the only son of wealthy Christian parents of Greek descent named Epiphanus and Johana in Patara, Lycia in the Fourth Century AD. After his parents died from an epidemic, he was taken in by his uncle who was Bishop of Patara. He was raised to be very religious at the monastery which his uncle had founded and as an adult became the Bishop of Myra in what is now modern Turkey.
Nicholas used his family wealth to spread acts of kindness and good will. He was particularly fond of children, nursing three back to life from a deathly illness. He rescued three sailors from a storm off the coast (St. Nicholas associated with a scent of fish and why certain areas decorate fishing boat models with lights) and helped the three unfortunate daughters of a poor nobleman. The three daughters wanted to marry three brothers of nobility, but their father did not have the money for their dowry. A recluse by nature, Nicholas anonymously dropped a bag of gold one night at a time for each daughter, but by the third night, the father rushed to discover who his mysterious benefactor was. Nicholas begged the father to conceal his identity, but one of the daughters learned the secret and spread the story. Thereafter, whenever someone received an unexpected gift, they thanked Nicholas.
In 325 AD, Roman Emperor Constantine heard of the extreme generosity of Nicholas and asked to meet him, possibly at the Council of Nicaea in modern Iznik which had convened to discern the nature of Jesus Christ. (Some sources claim Nicholas was abducted by Emperor Diocletian who had only ruled the Roman Empire from 284 to 305 AD.) Since Constantine was one of the first of the Roman Emperors to embrace Christianity, it is likely the encounter was under amicable terms.
The circumstances of Nicholas’s death are unrevealed, but it is known the Holy Roman Emperor venerated him as a saint. He was buried in Myra, but in 1071, during the invasion of the Seljuk Turks to the area, St. Nicholas appeared in a vision to the three sailors to preserve them from the Muslim conquest. Over the objections of the Orthodox monks, the sailors had St. Nicholas’s earthly remains reinterred from their burial church in Myra to their native port in Bari, Apulia (now part of Italy). Reputedly, some of the bones of St. Nicholas were taken by pilgrims to a church in Nikolausburg, Germany and to the church of St. Nicholas in Venice, but this is unconfirmed. In the Tenth Century, Emperor Vladimir of Russia hearing of the great deeds of St. Nicholas declared him the patron saint of Russia.
Wasn’t Black Peter a Moor and not Sub-Saharan African?
Santa quit going to Oakland because he was often the victim of muggings and the knock out game.
Well the title alone is literally the stupidest remark I have ever heard.
Guard it well. The day may come when the PC war on culture is exposed for what it really is.
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