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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
In South America, does Santa live at the South Pole and speak Spanish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading