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Why is Santa always white?
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel ^ | December 4, 2013 | Curtis Sails III

Posted on 12/04/2013 7:56:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Walking through the mall during the holiday season is one of my favorite pastimes. The vibrant colors, the decorations hanging from the ceiling, the jingles playing on the loudspeaker and the many people moving about talking on their cellphones or weighed down by the growing numbers of shopping bags in their hands. All of these things bring a smile to my face, warming my heart, year in and year out. However, this holiday season doesn't feel quite the same.

By mid-November, the middle of the mall was littered with wooden decorations of Kris Kringle's hideout in the North Pole, parents holding their son's or daughter's hands and many small children waiting anxiously for their chance to sit on Santa's lap to ask him for gifts and gadgets. I watched as child after child jumped on and hopped down from Santa's lap. Some kids talked to Santa as though they were old friends getting reacquainted; some sat emotionless, awkwardly waiting for their mothers to turn on the flash for their camera phone snapshot; and a few cried, out of fear of being left with a stranger in a bright red costume.

The moment seemed magical for kids and parents alike, a scenario that I knew was occurring in malls across the country. However, I soon was thrust back to reality by the next kid to sit on Santa's lap. An African-American boy no older than 7 walked up to Santa and sat down to take his photo. This boy was ecstatic about his opportunity to meet Old St. Nick and gave the biggest ear-to-ear smile I had seen all day.

But then it hit me. Santa was white. Wait, what?(continued)

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: blacks; christmas; dealwithit; racism; trayvon
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I thought we lived in a "post-racial" society now that the president, first lady, attorney general, governors and so many other big shots are black.
1 posted on 12/04/2013 7:56:07 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 12/04/2013 7:58:24 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why is Al Sharpton always black?


3 posted on 12/04/2013 7:58:52 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Um Curtis, I hate to break this to you, but...........there is no Santa Claus.


4 posted on 12/04/2013 7:59:12 PM PST by DManA
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Because the original guy was white. Nicolas was born in Turkey around AD200.


5 posted on 12/04/2013 8:00:05 PM PST by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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Probably the same reason SNOW is always WHITE! Wait,What?

Because Kwanzaa Klaus is brown?

6 posted on 12/04/2013 8:00:36 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you think signing up for ObamaCare was fun, wait until you try to use it.)
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What an absolutely stupid article.
Race baiting at its finest.

Writing under a pseudonym now, Eugene?


sumtin tells me he talking about that race hustler ugene robinson....


7 posted on 12/04/2013 8:01:18 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

ROFL


8 posted on 12/04/2013 8:01:54 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Governor Sarah Heath Palin for President of the United States in 2016)
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Obama is the ‘Rathcet’s Santa Clause’. He should be happy.


9 posted on 12/04/2013 8:02:14 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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How come Hanukkah Harry is always Jewish?

http://vimeo.com/56283772


10 posted on 12/04/2013 8:02:53 PM PST by DManA
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why is Santa always white??? probably same reason as asking why are liberals always stoopid?? it just is, that’s why....


11 posted on 12/04/2013 8:03:14 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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It’s a color thing.


12 posted on 12/04/2013 8:03:37 PM PST by wastedyears (The Ender's Game movie was a stupendous, colossal, galactic failure to me.)
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Kwanza Klaus! LOL!!!


13 posted on 12/04/2013 8:03:55 PM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: DManA

How come basketball players are always tall and skinny?


14 posted on 12/04/2013 8:04:05 PM PST by SamAdams76
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LOL!


15 posted on 12/04/2013 8:04:12 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (If you think signing up for ObamaCare was fun, wait until you try to use it.)
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To: God luvs America

While I'm not saying it isn't Eugene, this is the photo I found under the author's name and some of his tweets lead me to believe it's him. He's a radical black nationalist public school teacher.

16 posted on 12/04/2013 8:05:02 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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For that matter, why is Santa always married to a ...white...woman?


17 posted on 12/04/2013 8:05:14 PM PST by Rennes Templar (If you like your disease, you can keep it.)
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There is very little chance to get a tan up at the north pole. The sun is very low on the horizon, when it can be seen at all.

Also, the Clauses spend much of the time indoors, because of the cold temperatures.

They may have a tanning bed, by now, but electricity is probably in short supply and needed for the workshop, so the tanning bed probably goes unused.


18 posted on 12/04/2013 8:05:36 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Some years back I would need to visit the homes of black families for reasons I wont get into, but there I learned from the figurines on the mantle that, yes, Santa Claus was black but so were the elves and even Rudolph and his homies on the sled team. Also regularly I noted wall portraits of Jesus which revealed that he was sub Saharan black as well.

I learned a great deal in those days.

19 posted on 12/04/2013 8:05:42 PM PST by Dysart (Obamacare: "We are losing money on every subscriber-- but we will make it up in volume!")
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Since he is based on a Greek, he kind of ends up being white. Whoop de doo.


20 posted on 12/04/2013 8:06:11 PM PST by Viennacon
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