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Santa Claus REAL

How about the elementary school teacher in Oklahoma who chastised her African-American student for wearing a Santa Claus suit to class, saying "Santa Claus is white". The first/original Santa Claus was Greek, not anymore white than Jesus Christ- real name Josuha Bat Joseph- who was a Sephardic Jew native to the Middle East, was fair skinned and had blond hair and blue eyes. Ignorance is one thing, it is a horse of different color when ignorance is projected with an air of superiority. So much for Manifest Destiny and the self-aborbed "white man's burden".    P3 

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