What If Santa Claus Was Black?
Spoiler alert! Santa Claus is not real.
I hope that fact didn’t shatter the worldview of a 27-year-old reading this. Santa Claus is not, nor has ever been, a real person climbing through chimneys in late December. He is a character born out of Christianity, filtered through European folklore, and refined by American consumerism. But the battle over jolly old St. Nick is very real and very important. When people and institutions attempt to play revisionist historian with Santa Claus, it’s not really about Santa at all. It’s about us. It’s about our culture, our customs, and our norms. Ultimately, it’s about our spirituality—what we believe and what we consider holy.
Santa Claus is one of the most powerful cultural figures in American life. He is a symbol of Christian charity and tradition. Santa is originally a depiction of the Christian bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra. Celebrated for his kindness and generosity, many people, including sailors, merchants, and especially children, greatly admired him. When he passed away in 343 AD, his legacy was kept alive through stories and folklore.
As you can see, Saint Nicholas was not a heavyset man. Then came the 1930s. Coca-Cola started running ads of an overweight Santa Claus drinking a Coke. That opened the floodgates. Today, there are all sorts of depictions of Santa. The carmaker Dodge ran ads featuring a musclebound Santa played by pro wrestler Bill Goldberg. Capital One hired John Travolta to play Santa with long slickbacked hair. If you think about it, using Santa, and by extension Christianity, to sell soda, cars, and credit cards is quite blasphemous, but at least these versions got the skin color right.
Recently, however, there has been an uptick in black depictions of Santa Claus. Disney, America’s leading purveyor of lies, revisionism and LGBT propaganda, is the tip of the spear. They hired a black man to play Santa at one of their theme parks in Florida.
Disney finally went all the way
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They replaced Mrs Claus with a black woman on their cruise ships
They replaced Mrs Claus with a black woman at their Disneyland Christmas Parade
And now Disney made Santa Claus a black man at Epcot pic.twitter.com/rqUXHMZk1B
Black Santa is not an original concept. The idea was born from the 1954 song aptly titled, "Santa Claus Is a Black Man." The stubborn fact is that it’s a lie. Saint Nicholas didn’t have brown skin. And since Santa Claus is derived from Saint Nicholas, Santa cannot have brown skin either.
But let’s play along. Let’s imagine Santa Claus was a black man. What would that look like?
Instead of Saint Nicholas, Santa would probably be reminiscent of Maulana Karenga, the racist activist-turned-college-professor who created Kwanzaa specifically counter to Christmas. Karenga once declared, “Christianity is a white religion. It has a white God, and any ‘Negro’ who believes in it is a sick ‘Negro.’” Born Ronald McKinley Everett (a name he later labeled a “slave name”), he served prison time for the torture of two women. That is the ideological soil from which Black Santa grows.
This Santa would wear a red, black, and green suit, fist raised as a salute to pan-Africanism and Marxism.
Black Santa would not be based in the North Pole. It’s too cold. Everyone knows black folks “can’t handle the cold”—or so the stereotype goes. Black Santa’s headquarters would likely be on the south side of Chicago. O Block. Rife with crime and violence that plagues many black neighborhoods because of a total breakdown of family and cultural values. Black Santa’s workshop would be a trap house.
What about Mrs. Claus? Would she be the supportive wife helping to manage the operation? Given the state of black culture, probably not. It would probably be Santa and his three baby mamas. The elves would be a collection of homeless drug addicts getting paid just enough money to sustain their habit. The reindeer would instead be his Gangster Disciple security team, driving him around in his Denali with thirty-inch rims blasting Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us” from the speakers.
If you are a black person and find this offensive, good. That was the point. This is exactly what black culture, more often than not, gravitates toward. Degenerate behavior. Loose sexual ethics. Devoid of responsibility. Crass materialism. Unrepentant narcissism and nihilism.
The activists and professional grievance hustlers will insist that black children are starving for representation. That’s why Santa needs to be black. Captain America needs to be black. Snow White needs to be brown. Black children do not suffer from a lack of representation. They suffer from being force-fed a victimized, unbiblical identity rooted in idolatry of themselves.
Black kids aren’t short on imagination. They never have been. Children don’t wake up obsessed with race. They don’t need a superhero to look like them to be inspired. Black people groom their children for misery by indoctrinating them with Critical Race Theory, DEI, and Hip-Hop culture. Then we wonder why black kids grow up angry, act out, and end up incarcerated or worse.
The Black Santa crusade is a political and cultural grift. White liberals play Geppetto, pulling identity-politics strings to keep their black puppets dancing to the rhythm of racism and making sure the balance of power stays in their favor. Symbolism is cheaper than repentance. Changing costumes costs less than fixing schools. New imagery is far easier than confronting broken families. Virtue-signaling requires no courage; calling out immoral behavior and course-correcting does.
That should be offensive.
American blacks will defend immoral and ungodly behavior as long as it is deemed “black culture.” Look at what’s going on with Nicki Minaj. She gives Donald Trump a little praise and appears at a Turning Point event, and black folks lose their minds. People in the industry vowing to never work with her again. Fans calling to boycott her music. Never mind the endless list of rappers and gang members who treat neighborhoods like shooting galleries and sell drugs to other black people. That’s perfectly fine. Never mind the fact that Chris Brown hit a woman, Tory Lanez shot a woman, and R. Kelly raped women. No boycotts of their music. But Nicki supporting Trump? She crossed the Rubicon.
I will speak about this until I’m blue in the face: the biggest problem with black Americans is idolatry of skin color. Black pride will lead to the demise of millions unless true repentance takes place. Until black pride succumbs to the Word of God, we can expect foolish debates like Santa’s skin color to resurface every December.
