5 Feet of Fury

‘Although Santa Claus doesn’t exist, I am nevertheless convinced that he is white’

Jim Goad writes:

Aisha writes of the shame and pain and confusion and heartache she’d experience every holiday season (…)

Aisha failed to note that if she were still living in her ancestral homeland, she likely wouldn’t be concerned with such trifles. Back in those non-wintry climes, she might even know what horseflies taste like. (…)

Still, I find it incumbent upon myself to apologize for some of my brethren who joked that if Santa Claus was black, he’d be breaking into houses with an empty bag and leaving with it full. That so-called “joke” was not funny, nor was it appropriate in these very, very, very sensitive times of change and progress.