You would think people would be used to the sight of a black Santa by now.
Such isn’t the case with online racists who are calling for a boycott of Mall of America due to their hiring of the mall’s first black Santa Claus.
In a rash of nasty Facebook comments, keyboard bullies called the non-white representation of the fictional Christmas character “disgusting” and referred to him as a nigger.
The man in the suit, Larry Jefferson spoke to WCCO about his historical “role” and its impact on African-American children.
It gives them something to identify with, but Santa is still just Santa. Just Saturday, I was doing an event, and one child said, ‘Santa, you’re brown,’ and I said, ‘Yes, I am, but Santa comes in many different colors.’ He said, ‘Oh,’ so I gave him a candy cane, he ran off with other kids.
A number of internet trolls do not agree with nor care for that same sentiment. Some even claimed the depiction of Santa as a black man serves as an effort to make up for absentee black fathers although the CDC revealed that Black fathers spend more time with their children than any other race.
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