When I was a kid, I knew two different Santa Clauses. The first had a fat belly, rosy cheeks, a long white beard, and skin as pink as bubble gum. He was omnipresent, visiting my pre-school and the local mall, visible in all of my favorite Christmas specials.
Then there was the Santa in my family’s household, in the form of ornaments, cards, and holiday figurines. A near-carbon copy of the first one—big belly, rosy cheeks, long white beard: check, check, check. But his skin was as dark as mine.
Seeing two different Santas was bewildering. Eventually I asked my father what Santa really looked like. Was he brown, like us? Or was he really a white guy?
i remember those times when little Black children thought everything good was white media, promoted White figures, TV stars, Barbie and all the action figures although now i can't remember an action figure i'm 65. we were being brain washed and didn't know it. that still happens today but mostly to White s called right wing base a roger Ailes Nixon plan,
My father replied that Santa was every color. Whatever house he visited, jolly old St. Nicholas magically turned into the likeness of the family that lived there.
In hindsight, I see this explanation as the great Hollywood spec script it really is. (Just picture the past-their-prime actors who could share the role. Robert De Niro! Eddie Murphy! Jackie Chan!I smell a camp classic.) But at the time, I didn’t buy it. I remember feeling slightly ashamed that our black Santa wasn’t the “real thing.” Because when you’re a kid and you’re inundated with the imagery of a pale seasonal visitor—and you notice that even some black families decorate their houses with white Santas—you’re likely to accept the consensus view, despite your parents’ noble intentions.
we never saw Black Santa or Jesus until teen years but not in my house, or my church. my mother was sold on White and denied any such thing as Black anybody who had always been White everybody.
Revelation 1:12-18 - Meeting Jesus Face to Face
www.bible.ca/ef/expository-revelation-1-12-18.htm
And His head and His hair were white like wool, like snow; and His eyes were ... and His feet were like burnished bronze, when it had been caused to glow in a ... wings, and as the sound of abundant waters in other Scripture (Ezekiel 1:24).
all we saw was Jeffery Hunter playing Jesus in King of Kings, Max Von Sydow playing Jesus in "The Greatest Story Ever Told", blue eyes kinda gave it away.
