That one time
Presenter Megyn Kelly made the pronouncement while discussing a piece by Slate's Aisha Harris on her show The Kelly File - in the piece, Harris wrote of seeing a white Santa in the local shopping mall, and a black Santa in her own home. She proposed creating a more inclusive
At this, Kelly pauses to deliver a message to the children undoubtedly watching this late night news programme:
By the way, for all you kids watching at home, Santa is white but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa. Santa is what he is…I wanted to get that straight.
She goes on to say:
Jesus was a white man too. He was a historical figure, that's a verifiable fact - as is Santa. How do you just revise it in the middle of the legacy of the story, and just change Santa from white to black?