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In diverse U.S., Santa Claus has many faces, races

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Fox News host Megyn Kelly sparked a heated debate when she declared on air, “And by the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white,”

Actually Megyn (didn't your Mama teach you how to spell your own name?), sorry to break this to you but Santa isn't real. He's make believe. Like Mickey Mouse..............................what's that you say? OK Megyn, let's go back to the beginning. Mickey Mouse is a cartoon character. No, no, really. Trust me. People draw him. And Santa is an early advert for Coke. Not the one you (obviously) put up your nose. And Jesus was most probably olive skinned.

Sorry to ruin your Christmas Megyn.

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Liberals are taking Megyn's words out of context as liberals do so often, she knows the Santa character is fictional , that's not the issue! If people want an Asian, Black or Hispanic Santa, more power to them, the issue is that, the original concept of St. Nick and Santa is White, that's all, she pointed that out, so now she's delusional or racist because of that? I keep forgetting, nowadays anything you say makes you racist. I highly doubt Megyn's Christmas will be ruined. With one of the highest rated number show in that time slot and still fairly new, she is crushing and destroying the competition. Probably THE best Christmas present she ever received. Kudos to her.

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“Kids don’t see color. They see a fat guy in a red suit giving toys”

They should just see a fat guy in a suit giving toys!

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The original idea of Santa was that he was white as he was a product of anglo-dutch-german imagination/myth.

The modern santa can be whatever the local community identifies with. He is, after all, not real. Santa is for kids and if the local audience of kids is mostly black then make santa black. Let the myth develop with modern morality and ethics.

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Saint Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in Lycia, now part of Turkey; thus, if you define" white" as northern European, he most definitely not (and neither was Jesus).

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Santa is an early advert for Coke.

No he is not. Coke used the popular depiction of Santa in their adverts because of a fortunate coincidence with their colour schemes. This coincidence later allowed a popular anti-corporatist urban myth to develop.

Saint Nicholas was Bishop of Myra in Lycia, now part of Turkey; thus, if you define" white" as northern European, he most definitely not (and neither was Jesus).

But he is also mixed in with "Father Christmas" or "Pere Noel", a quasi-pagan northern European figure who almost certainly northern European. Santa Claus is a later arrival on the scene.

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Please stop appropriating my Northern European culture. Santa Claus is clearly a white man, and suggesting otherwise offends me greatly.

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Dee looks great!

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At the time the myth developed in Northern Europe centuries ago, the population was largely homogeneously caucasian.

Today? In the "politically-correct" nonsense world, the origin of the myth is inconvenient.

Next, there'll be inane debates as to Superman's color, too, though he's always been depicted as caucasian.

Is there an asian, aboriginal, or negro patron figure?

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