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you can't make this stuff up (pun intended). Megyn fired a shot across the bow in their annual "war on christmas"meme.
Megyn Kelly's Fox News Christmas war: Santa Claus 'just is' white - latimes.com
On Wednesday's "The Kelly File," the newswoman criticized a Slate article written by a black journalist that questioned cultural depictions of Santa as white and suggested that the traditional jolly and zaftig elf should be replaced by a penguin.
"For all you kids watching at home, Santa just is white," Kelly informed viewers. "Santa is what he is.... I wanted to get that straight."
Has she met him? How does she know?
They actually have a "war map". Is this true or are they just being facetious?
War on Christmas - Fox Nation
How she knows is that millions of pictures of Santa Claus, for centuries, have all shown him to be white. In addition, the character originates from the gift-giving Saint Nicholas of Myra, who was a 4th-century Greek Christian bishop of Myra (now Demre) in Lycia, a province of the Byzantine Anatolia, now in Turkey. So happens St. Nicky was white.
As for Jesus, just like George Washington, he lived before the age of photograghy. But artistic paintings go way back to long before Jesus' time. Both he and Washington are shown in thousands of paintings as being white.
So that's how Megyn Kelly (and all of us) know that Santa and Jesus were white. Got it now ?