ImTheCaptain
I disagree with you
yet bz remains jolly lolz
I mean, it is a verifiable fact.
KELLY: Outraged? Well, this would be funny if it were not so telling about our society. In the particular the knee jerk instinct by so many to race bait and to assume the worst in people, especially people employed by the very powerful FOX News Channel. Contrary to what my critics said posited neither my statement nor Harris's, I'm sure was motivated by any racial fear or loathing. In fact it was something far less sinister. A lifetime of exposure to the very same, quote, commercials, mall casting calls and movies Harris references in her piece from "Miracle on 34th Street" to the Thanksgiving Day Parade to the national Christmas tree lighting, we continually see St. Nick as a white man in modern day America. Should that change?
Well, that debate got lost. Because so many couldn't get pass the fact that I acknowledged as Harris did that the most commonly depicted image of Santa does in fact have white skin. By the way, I also did say Jesus was white as I've learned in the past two days, that is far from settled. For me, the fact that an offhand jest I made during a segment about whether Santa should be replaced by a penguin has now become a national firestorm says two things. Race is still an incredibly volatile issue in this country and FOX News and yours truly are big targets for many people. But don't take my word for it. Our panel debates right after this break.
You mean that the real St. Nicholas is white?
Yep. Looks like it. He lived in Asia Minor, and so he was most likely Caucasian. But he also certainly did not look anything like he is commercially portrayed today in the US and probably never saw a raindeer as long as he lived. Nope, not even Rudolf.
BTW, Kelly said it was meant to be funny, and the reaction to the piece shows how much everyone else is obsessed with race.
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Yep. Looks like it. He lived in Asia Minor, and so he was most likely Caucasian. But he also certainly did not look anything like he is commercially portrayed today in the US and probably never saw a raindeer as long as he lived. Nope, not even Rudolf.
the image of santa is obviously a combination of a sources. St. Nick is just part of the amalgamation once the catholics realized they needed to co-opt pagan shit to keep the christ train rollin'
Caucasian is a very loose term. The Caucasians of Turkey aren't what most white-bred Americans think of when you say the word. As Bojangle said, he wasn't Caucasian in the current sense of the word.
Still interested in what RevDeac's answer is.
He probably looked like a Cretan Greek.
My original point about him being from Lycia wasn't that he wasn't Caucasian, it was that he wasn't a jolly, pale skinned northern European.
I posted the link before watching it, and the last 30 seconds are laughable. Claiming that the liberal media is attacking Megyn and Fox News because "they cannot defeat us on the media battlefield" and that Megyn's remarks were "totally harmless" is laugh out loud dumb.