"We're Not White Guys, Megyn Kelly" By Jesus and St. Nicholas

[eridani]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/12/1262236/--We-re-Not-White-Guys-Megyn-Kelly-By-Jesus-and-St-Nicholas

We're not white people.

I'm sorry if this bothers you. But it's the truth. St. Nick and Jesus are not, and never have been, from the dry part of the bird.

First of all, modern concepts of whiteness just plain don't apply to a first century Jew and a third century ethnic Greek from what is now Turkey. We're not anywhere on your little crumbled Saltine Venn diagram.

But there's something else that deeply infuriates us, and it needs to be said. Your viewers - and a large chunk of your country - hate and fear folks who look like us. Do you realize that?

Look at a reconstruction of my face by the St. Nicholas Center. Really look at me. I am a bearded, sienna-shaded gent from the Near East. Your network spends all day flashing pictures of guys who resemble me to justify drone strikes, profiling, and torture. I'm not a jolly elf to a Fox News viewer. I am the freakin' bogeyman. And, I'd like to point out, so is my Nazarene buddy over here, whose birthday is coming up. Sarah Palin pretends she's ghost-writing for the guy, but she wouldn't get in a cab he was driving.

http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/real-face/

[Ken Burch]

1. Not only would Sarah Palin never get in Jesus' cab...

if He ever ran against her for anything, she'd fire up her core voters against them by reminding them that He was a Jew...just like she did in her first race for the Wasilla mayor's job(the guy she ran against wasn't Jewish-not that it should have mattered of course...he just happened to have the last name of Stein...and using "code" to bring it up was enough to get her elected there).

She's also bust Jesus for his "associates"...some of whom had fairly shady origins.

Glad to hear from St. Nick on all of this.

[eridani]

2. A scholar tries to inform Megyn Kelly

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/12/14/1262765/-A-scholar-tries-to-inform-Megyn-Kelly

You correctly stated that the mythical figure of Santa Claus is based on an historical figure, St. Nicholas. St. Nicholas was the bishop of Myra, a city near the southern coast of Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey). First of all, modern categories of “black” and “white” are just that – modern – whereas race was understood differently in the ancient world. St. Nicholas was not “white” if by white you mean European. He most certainly was not a pale-skinned, red-cheeked, obese, married man, as Santa Claus is typically portrayed in contemporary American culture. Rather, St. Nicholas was an unmarried, ascetic (i.e., thin through fasting), Mediterranean/Middle Eastern bishop, so the notion of the contemporary Santa Claus’ being “black” is no further removed from the historical reality than his being fat, married, and “white.”