I won’t go into too much history on Santa but the person who Santa is based on, St. Nicholas, he was Greek and from a part of the world now known as southern Turkey – not a place of fair-skinned rosy cheeked people who look like the current popular versions of Santa.
The news anchor later said she was surprised that her off-hand comment spoken in jest became a national firestorm.
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and take her at her word.
But what she should be aware of is that there’s a reason certain phrases become clichés.
One of them goes like this, “many a truth is often spoken in jest.”
And by saying what she said she may have unwittingly exposed a deeper truth not only about her own beliefs, but about many people’s beliefs in America- that Santa is and should be just like them-
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