LTTE: "Black Santa"

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Someone's upset.

Black Santa

Letter
Black Santa
Jr Curtis, Concord

By For the Monitor
December 6, 2010

During a recent visit today to Fort Eddy Plaza, I was joyous to see Santa Claus walking around at the entrance, waving at patrons and having what appeared to be a great time. As traffic allowed me to get a little closer to him so that I could wave back, I realized that he too was an African-American. I was completely taken back by this. If that was a joke, didn't they know that the underlying racial implication greatly outweighs the humor in it all?

Black Elvis, Black Jesus and even Black Santa might be a blast in a funny movie or a comic's skit, but this simply wasn't funny. If the situation was meant with honesty, I still question the choice of who was playing Santa in a state where the African-American population remains around the 1 percent mark and even less than that here in Concord.

I agree that people are simply people, regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, etc, but certain characters in life should only be casted as they have been handed down by history. Santa is still very real to many people out there; especially to the young ones. I'm sure a black Santa would cause as much confusion for them in this state, as a white guy standing at a shopping center in Atlanta portraying Malcolm X.

JR CURTIS

Concord

[gratuitous]

1. Just when you think they've hit the rock bottom of stupidity

Someone pulls out the jack hammer and the blasting caps. It's bottomless.

[qb]

2. Even more confusing are the white Jesus Christs I see everywhere.

:shrug:

[FSogol]

3. Wait until someone tells him about Black Baby Jesus. n/t