Megyn Kelly: Santa and Jesus are white

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Obviously Saint Nicholas was not black. But I don't know about "Santa".
As for Jesus though, he's what you want him to be in most cases. At least for Christians who worship images, statues and icons of Jesus, I have seen photos of churches in New Zealand, where the local Maoris have depicted him looking like a Maori. So I really wouldn't hold it against Europeans to picture him as such.

For the muslim world though, depictions of prophets are rare. They're mostly drawn with a veil over their face, and a burning halo around their bodies.
Here, they are de-materialized, detached from the world, their images being only vague representations of their former existence upon the earth.

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As for Santa, I view him as the epitome of western cultural hegemony around the eastern part of the globe. I do not want "Santa" to represent a new-years eve that isn't part of our culture, and the fact that he's not associated with neither good-deed, nor almsgiving, only with more materialism, tells me that we need to destroy the image of Santa in our realm, oust it from our consciousness, and re-instate our own national heroes and saints to associate it with a new years eve that is 100% national in character and spirit.