@BizSuitStacy I knew I too was Santa 😁😁

@BizSuitStacy Actually Coca Cola gave us the modern Santa in one of their marketing campaigns.

@Ceinwyn Is there any chance that you are a pagan?

@IndophileIndian Just a tad.

@ServantOfTheGoddess Yes, maybe the next step is to recognise and be grateful for each and every gift we receive each day from others, yet can take for granted.

That's just because it was a white people thing. @ServantOfTheGoddess

@Spoiledbrat It was already popular way beyond white people when I was a kid.

@Greyjedi Oh! I thought it was just the soot from the chimney.

@LordShadowfire wrong he was a rich Arbic Turkish gentleman who did more for relationships that Saint Valentine.

@Greyjedi Honestly, to me, his generosity is more important. He made toys for children, as we all know, but he also helped prostitutes pay off their pimps so that they could be free. Once, when a merchant was about to go out of business, he secretly threw a bag of gold through his shop window and saved the company. If anybody deserves to be turned into the spirit of Christmas, it's Nicholas.

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@SilkenHippie It's just the same with Jesus... they change his skin colour to match the majority skin colour in a given country - and people still get to screaming "Jesus wasn't white/Jamaican/Japanese".

Whatever - we don't have scientific proof that there was a Jesus... so why does the colour of his skin even matter so much???

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@JaggedLittlePill

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@AdielTandri
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@IM5688
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@jshm2
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@Straylight My older brother told me he was from walking reindeer droppings when i was a kid. He made me cry

@Straylight Clement Clark Moore described him as an elf in "A Visit From St. Nicholas," aka "The Night Before Christmas". He's also the first author to describe him as "chubby and plump".

@LordShadowfire Did not know that

@FreeSpirit1 My older brother told me he was from walking reindeer droppings when i was a kid. He made me cry

@FreeSpirit1 I was like 3

@SilkenHippie Some people like to stir up controversy. The color of someone's skin, or their religious beliefs shouldn't matter in the slightest. Yet, here we are. Society is a mess.

@carpediem

Your over thinking this question.

Let it go

@SilkenHippie No...just shaking my head over a question about the race of a fictional character. Maybe I'm not the one over thinking. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@JonLosAngeles66
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@Greyjedi No, he was a bit "borwn" I guess, but he wasn't Arabic, he was of Greek Descent, aka Nicholas of Smyrna or Nichaolas of Bari and was a Bishop in Turkey -- and if you want to get some people angry, tell a Turk he's an Arab.

@ChipmunkErnie are you a Turk do you from personal experience?

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout
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@SandWitch Wrong continent? Just wondering...

@pride49 Are you sure that was not just the glare of the disco lights in the grotto? I was once fooled, thinking Santa had the measles - big red spots!

Hey @pride49 and @SW-User what if he is red and yellow plaid

@SilkenHippie Ronald McDonalds bastard son

@basilfawlty89 I'd rather not.

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@basilfawlty89
I don't know who that is

@basilfawlty89 I finally got motivated this morning to look up the whole story, and I found this fascinating National Geographic article. It's going to demand an email address, but if you're like me, you've got a spam catcher address you can give them. It costs nothing.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/131219-santa-claus-origin-history-christmas-facts-st-nicholas

@LordShadowfire thanks, I'll definitely give it a read.

@basilfawlty89 The short version is he was a Mediterranean looking gentleman, as you've suggested.

They just aired this episode on that MeTV network. I remember this episode even as a kid

@SilkenHippie So do I. I loved the series.....nothing like the sitcoms that Norman Lear created back then. They would be politically incorrect today.