Color and Santa

Christmastime and the black/white color thing is an issue.

Color makes a difference?  Color makes a difference. 

Yes, on this planet, both the query and the statement are valid considerations.  But why must color adversely affect our concept of others as it does?  Why do we let the media, the television networks ignite us; get away with programming to produce conflict? 

Recently I read news personality, Megyn Kelly, dumped the color controversy into Christmas, reporting Santa Claus was white.  My first thoughts were, “of course he is.  What’s the issue?”  

Santa was white throughout my childhood.  He’s a white fellow now.  No one can change that perception for me.

Hold it!  When I was a child, many Christmases the jolly and generous bearded fat man didn’t come to our house.  I never thought it was because we were black and he was white. Did I miss something?  Would he have stopped by our house every Christmas, had he been black?  Nope.  He didn’t come to us because, as my father told us, “Santa Claus doesn’t always go to every single home.”  I believed my dad.

For sure though, when my own children were young, Christmas morning, without fail, they found something from Santa Claus under our Christmas tree.  He was white; they were black and color did not make a difference to him.  I like that.

Merry Christmas.