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Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black! [W:35]

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Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black! - CNN.com

The family of an African-American high school student in New Mexico says he's crushed after a teacher questioned why he was wearing Santa garb during a school holiday dress-up day last week, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

I don't follow I've heard this a couple of times but I don't understand why the idea of santa being white and only white is a bad thing? asian holidays tend to have asian charactors because thats who they are.... why do we need to change the idenity of fictional charactors to be multiracial? this being a story I see on fox news and cnn makes no sense to me... (First Cmass so I might not understand some underlying problem with this) :2wave:

The color of santa is white it has been since the holiday was invented right? why are people crying about it being racist?
 
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I don't understand this at all.

We all know that Santa does not exist, so who cares what color he is?

If you want to go back in history, what color was the man Santa was based on?
 
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Chocolate said:
Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black! - CNN.com

The family of an African-American high school student in New Mexico says he's crushed after a teacher questioned why he was wearing Santa garb during a school holiday dress-up day last week, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

I don't follow I've heard this a couple of times but I don't understand why the idea of santa being white and only white is a bad thing? asian holidays tend to have asian charactors because thats who they are.... why do we need to change the idenity of fictional charactors to be multiracial? this being a story I see on fox news and cnn makes no sense to me... (First Cmass so I might not understand some underlying problem with this) :2wave:

The color of santa is white it has been since the holiday was invented right? why are people crying about it being racist?
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I agree with Mason: SANTA ISN'T REAL. He doesn't have a race. You might as well get offended by someone saying the easter bunny is Filipino.

And nobody was crying about it being racist. Some teacher was a complete dick to some black guy who was wearing a santa suit.
 
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Mason66 said:
I don't understand this at all.

We all know that Santa does not exist, so who cares what color he is?

If you want to go back in history, what color was the man Santa was based on?
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I assume europian which is mostly white.... so I assume he is white? like asia... mostly asian our fictional charactors of the past tend to be.... I don't know... asian?
 
Re: Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black!

Didn't we just discuss this to death and beyond in another thread?
 
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If this really happened then the teacher needs a big smack. If the kid want's to dress up like Santa more power to em'. Don't rain on his parade.
 
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jeez, another Santa's ethnicity freak out. can't we just get back to the war on Christmas?
 
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clownboy said:
Didn't we just discuss this to death and beyond in another thread?
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I looked through three pages for this thread... I didnt see it at all. ugh this fourm is so hard for me sometimes ;(

sorry everyone if this is brought up often This is my first Cmass in america and I saw this and was baffled by it... (recently moved from vietnam to america we have no christmass)
 
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Chocolate said:
I looked through three pages for this thread... I didnt see it at all. ugh this fourm is so hard for me sometimes ;(
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I didn't see another thread on Santas color either.
 
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Chocolate said:
I looked through three pages for this thread... I didnt see it at all. ugh this fourm is so hard for me sometimes ;(

sorry everyone if this is brought up often This is my first Cmass in america and I saw this and was baffled by it... (recently moved from vietnam to america we have no christmass)
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There is a search feature that helps assure you don't keep repeating the same topic in multiple OPs

Here is an example of searching for "Santa". The search box is in the upper right corner of the page.
http://www.debatepolitics.com/search.php?searchid=3105724
 
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Not that it makes it right but I wonder if the teacher was screwing around with the kid? I bet the teacher wishes they hadn't said anything right about now, but who knows. I really don't care what race you want santa to be as long as he's bringing joy.
 
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Chocolate said:
Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black! - CNN.com

The family of an African-American high school student in New Mexico says he's crushed after a teacher questioned why he was wearing Santa garb during a school holiday dress-up day last week, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

I don't follow I've heard this a couple of times but I don't understand why the idea of santa being white and only white is a bad thing? asian holidays tend to have asian charactors because thats who they are.... why do we need to change the idenity of fictional charactors to be multiracial? this being a story I see on fox news and cnn makes no sense to me... (First Cmass so I might not understand some underlying problem with this) :2wave:

The color of santa is white it has been since the holiday was invented right? why are people crying about it being racist?
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That's an incredibly idiotic thing to say.
 
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apdst said:
That's an incredibly idiotic thing to say.
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I really wish you would ignore any thread made by me... you are always so mean and aggresive wishing I was dead, calling me a pig and saying I made a stupid thread. whilist derailing any thread I make turning it into your opinions of obama and stuff it's making it really hard for me to enjoy this website :(
 
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Helix said:
jeez, another Santa's ethnicity freak out. can't we just get back to the war on Christmas?
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Oh, this thread isn't about some school teacher that shot his mouth off and said something incredibly stupid to a little boy?
 
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apdst said:
Oh, this thread isn't about some school teacher that shot his mouth off and said something incredibly stupid to a little boy?
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it's kind of both.. I think it's wrong for the teacher to be mean to the little boy who wanted to dress up. but I don't think santa needs to be any other color then his fiction says he is
 
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If the kid wants to dress up as Abraham Lincoln or Robin Hood, let him do it without any idiotic criticism.
 
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Chocolate said:
I really wish you would ignore any thread made by me... you are always so mean and aggresive wishing I was dead, calling me a pig and saying I made a stupid thread. whilist derailing any thread I make turning it into your opinions of obama and stuff it's making it really hard for me to enjoy this website :(
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First off, if you can't stand the heat, get out off the kitchen.

Second, I'm in agreement with you...so, WTF?
 
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apdst said:
First off, if you can't stand the heat, get out off the kitchen.

Second, I'm in agreement with you...so, WTF?
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Now I feel dumb. english is not my first language so I thought "What an idiotic thing to say" was in reference to the post I made... Like what i'm saying is stupid

and after the vietnam thread I made I thought you disliked me for my politic beliefs as well. and given your picture I thought maybe there was some tension there? i don't know just... I saw it as aggresion
 
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Chocolate said:
it's kind of both.. I think it's wrong for the teacher to be mean to the little boy who wanted to dress up. but I don't think santa needs to be any other color then his fiction says he is
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Ooooh, you gona get burned fod that one! You think I'M mean?...lol!
 
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Chocolate said:
Now I feel dumb. english is not my first language so I thought "What an idiotic thing to say" was in reference to the post I made... Like what i'm saying is stupid

and after the vietnam thread I made I thought you disliked me for my politic beliefs as well. and given your picture I thought maybe there was some tension there? i don't know just... I saw it as aggresion
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I do dislike you because you're a Communist. I hate Communists. But, right is right and wrong is wrong.
 
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Mason66 said:
I don't understand this at all.

We all know that Santa does not exist, so who cares what color he is?

If you want to go back in history, what color was the man Santa was based on?
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Somewhere between dark olive and light brown. St. Nicholas hailed from what is now Turkey. Hardly the blue-eyed Swede today's mythical Santa is usually portrayed as.

As to why anyone cares, I have no frickin' idea. What is wrong with people?
 
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Okay this is now getting all kinds of ridiculous.
 
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Mason66 said:
We all know that Santa does not exist, so who cares what color he is?
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What the **** man, why did no one tell me?!
 
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Jredbaron96 said:
What the **** man, why did no one tell me?!
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They probably did, you just weren't listening.
 
Re: Teacher to student: You can't be Santa -- you're black!

Let him dress up as Kwanzaa Klaus.
 
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