A few days ago a couple of Americans displayed their stupidity for the world to see. Megyn Kelly of Fox News, and a teacher at Cleveland High School in New Mexico decided that Santa Claus had to be a white person -- and both shot down the dreams of non-white youngsters.These two incidents have initiated a firestorm of protest, probably much more than they deserved. Is Megyn Kelly a stupid person? Yes. But we didn't need her idiotic statement about Santa's color to know that. Was that teacher wrong to hurt a student's feeling by insisting he could not be Santa because he was not white? Of course. But he has been made to apologize and has been disciplined.
We need to stop and remember what the argument is about -- a made-up, fictional, mythical character. There is no Santa Claus. There is no toy shop at the North Pole. And no jolly old elf in a red suit flies all over the world on x-mss eve to bring toys to children.
And because Santa not real, we can make him any color we want (as the cartoon above shows from allhatnocattle.net). If Kelly and the teacher want Santa to be white, I have no problem with that -- the problem comes in their trying to tell others they are wrong for wanting Santa to be a different color. Anyone can have any color Santa that they want. Hell, it's even OK if you want Santa to have green skin with purple polka dots.
You have to admit that its really silly for so many people to argue over the skin color of a mythical character. I just wish that many people would get upset over real problems -- like poverty, homelessness, unemployment, war, etc.
