About 20 years ago, I was out doing the Christmas shopping thing in Northwest Indiana. I felt I needed to buy cards for my brother and sister. I stopped into a store in a place near Indiana Dunes and went to the card racks.
What I learned was that Hallmark has an entire line of Black Santa Christmas cards. White people who never go into black parts of town and never listen to “Black Radio” seem to be oblivious that within the black communisty, this is a fact not open to debate.
That “aha!” moment morphed a bit into disgust as I went through the cards and found there was no diversity in Santa. Not only are churches and heaven apparently segregated by race, but so are our fictional characters.
Given the political beliefs of my relatives, I considered sending them a black Santa card, but chickened out – not wanting to provoke a WTF reaction. I ended up buying generic snow and winter scene cards instead.
In South America, does Santa live at the South Pole and speak Spanish?
ABRA-KADABRA while you are watching my lovely assistants ta-tas I’m destroying the nation. Thank yew, thank yew very mucho.
I have seen paintings and statutes of black “Jesus” in black homes before. Also
Such images always raise the question in my mind: “Did God create man in His image” OR vice versa?
Furthermore, I have never been able to grasp the paintings and depictions of “Jesus” and any of the “Apostles”. I don’t recall reading physical descriptions of these men in the Bible.
Yet, most Christian people (in America at least) seem to have an “image” of Jesus that looks like someone who got lost on his way to Woodstock.
Yes. And it was ironic that many Christians complained about the hippies’ long hair and modest clothes back in the Woodstock days.
True, my grandparents had a painting of Jesus holding a lamb walking down the dirt path and children following and he was at least 6′ 5″ with long sandy brown-with blonde highlights hair, with close well trimmed beard and blue eyes !
I never thought anything of it, while growing up. It got destroyed when their house burned in the early eighties.
That image and church my parents and I went to, had me convinced in my teenage years that God was angry all the time, and Jesus was good easy going guy, good cop vs bad cop.
Old testament was God’s wrath and mad all the time. Jesus on the other hand was healing sick, rescuing lambs, feeding people with bread and fish, changing water into wine, hooking up with Mary Magdalene, saving us all.
So I rebelled told my parents I didn’t like God or church and just liked Jesus only. That went over real well. Not.
I wondered around many years. Never had any doubts in Jesus. I don’t trust churches all that much. I try to tithe on things that I think directly help, Salvation Army and local animal rescues, Food missions.
I’m still learning, may get there one of these days.
parrott
We crossed an important line in this thread, and it is not an accident.
We started on Black Santa and wound up talking about Jesus. More than one child upon learning that Santa Claus is not what their parents said – will logically follow with – Does this mean Jesus is just a story too and is no more real? This is why some really serious Christians want nothing to do with the entire Santa Claus thing.
As you pointed out, “We crossed an important line in this thread, and it is not an accident.”
I will disclose that I have 2 sons. My wife and I decided NOT to deceive them into believing in myths. We devised a creative way to celebrate Christmas.
So, what do I believe? I believe we all should be wary of the Establishment. Do they counterfeit and misdirect? Yes! Does the Establishment obey and follow the Ruler of this World? Yes!
Did the True and Living God send us His son to save us from Religion? Yes!
Did the True and Living God send us His son to teach us to love our neighbor and forgive others? Yes!
There is so much ancient history to learn about the Fall of Mankind and how those who are against us are trying to ‘climb up the devil’s back’ to regain what ‘they’ lost.
TransHumanism
So you’re saying that Jesus and his followers didn’t smoke wacky Tobacky?
Tobacco, originally known as Cohiba, was discovered in the foothills of the Ecuadorian mountains millennium ago. When those dirty, low-down European Spaniards sent that Italian guy, Christopher Columbus out to discover a new route for the spice trade he came across a local population of islanders smoking Cohiba by using a hollow, forked stick to inhale its smoke into their nostrils. They called that stick a tabac, hence tobacco was misnamed because the Spaniards were a little dull of wit and did not understand the local dialect very well. Sorry for getting sidetracked, but the point is that so-called tobacco was not known outside of South and North America until long after the Roman Empire had fallen and prior to the Renaissance. But, I would expect that had it been introduced much earlier then who would doubt Jesus and his followers would have enjoyed the privilege of smoking Cohiba?
No no – “wacky” Tobacky – the stuff that apparently makes you want to consume Fritos and not care they cost $7 a pound. It might explain why Jesus glowed in the dark
In South America they have Papa Noel, and I can say with certainty, having lived at the South Pole, Santa Clause, nor does Papa Noel, live there. I have no problem with anyone who wants Santa to be portrayed in whatever color they desire.
I’m all for black Santa in black households. It’s about time we break the notion the man who gives out free stuff just for asking is a white man.
Hmmmmm…., I 2nd your notion!
You will never see a Jewish Santa. It would be funny though coming down the chimney with a yamika and used raindeer he got on wholesale..
Reminds me a great episode (“Seoul Mates”) of Northern Exposure, in which the Jewish doctor Joel Fleischman is fascinated by the possibility of having a Christmas tree.
Here is a clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O7WJ9himpU
Gimme my *uckin’ toys NOW!
http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2013/12/21/unruly-crowd-causes-commotion-at-salvation-army-toy-distribution/
After the funds run-out for the USDA programs it will be just like…………….
Zimbabwe?
I wonder how many people who have heard of the Rhodes Scholarship know who Rhodes was and how Cecil Rhodes got that wealth. The scholarship itself has the purpose of identifying future world leaders and “training” them in a certain world view.
I had forgotten who that was… I must have “Rhonesia” lol
For those who don’t know, he was the force behind DeBeers mining who launched the war against the Dutch speaking Europeans and set up the legal structure of the South African government. Rhodesia was the part of Southern Africa he controlled and bore his name.
It stuns me how the American public bought the “blood diamonds” PR campaign to keep Africans from marketing diamonds outside of the control of the diamond cartel. Blood diamonds indeed. I doubt that any historical review during the week long Nelson Mandela extravaganza mentioned Cecil Rhodes.
Indeed, much of America seems poised on the edge of their sofa waiting for the next episode of Downton Abbey, set in the post Boer Wars era, with wealth accumulated from rounding up Dutch speaking civilians and putting them in concentration camps, setting up black police forces to ruthlessly enforce English rule and plunder the gold and diamonds using forced labour.
Next think you know, they will rename New Amsterdam to New York. 😉
New Amsterdam was the swamp to which the Venician Vipers moved after the Cambia War against Venice. Then they took over the City of London and later opened up a branch office in New York City so they could sell their debt paper to the Americans.
It took until 2008, but the Americans finally got their revenge by selling liar loans back to the Europeans.
Did I forget to mention the connection between Cecil Rhodes and the the Rothschild bankers?
It’s funny how nobody cares what color Santa is as long as he is bringing gifts.
Come on. We all know Santa is white. If he were black, he would have been shot in someone’s living room long ago.
LMAO ! you kill me CC !
parrott
Especially trying to come in through the chimney in the middle of the night.
I don’t understand how there are any questions about this. Santa as we know him is largely an invention of the Coca Cola company, and he is indeed white. He’s an advertising character. I don’t know how there’s even a controversy, it’s documented to have happened only a hundred years ago.
You may be shocked then to learn Jesus was black.
You might say “But Art, Jesus was Jewish!”
Ah, but that’s because we fail to understand that today’s Jews are the fake Jews, and the real Jews were the Nubians who built the pyramids and taught the Greeks everything they know.
This is what is being taught both by the Nation of Islam and the church where Barack Obama learned about Jesus. Once you realize that narrative, his actions in the middle east make much more sense.
FWIW, the original St. Nicholas was Greek…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nicholas
Case closed!
Yep, foyle, that looks like conclusive evidence to me.
People misunderstand these days. We think they’re saying “Jesus is black”, but they’re REALLY saying “Jesus is Barack”…
Also. since much of Santa’s backstory was established by Clement Clarke Moore in his famous poem “A Visit From St. Nicholas” in 1823, it’s safe to say that he wasn’t black.
What would happen to the US economy if the mass hysteria stopped one year and we all stopped giving gifts that people don’t want because they think they have to?
How about the black Santa getting shot in the back by a pellet gun handing out gifts in DC. That was not cool.
See Parrott? Told you so. lol 😉