{"id":50835,"date":"2016-12-21T18:22:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50835"},"modified":"2017-07-24T00:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:07:13","slug":"seeing-santa-in-black-and-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50835","title":{"rendered":"Seeing Santa in Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/20\/well\/family\/seeing-santa-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Seeing Santa in Black and White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2016-12-20<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xoxsai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sa&#8217;iyda Shabazz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"452\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/20\/well\/family\/seeing-santa-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/12\/19\/well\/family\/well-family-santa2\/well-family-santa2-master768.jpg\" width=\"450\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xoxsai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sa\u2019iyda Shabazz<\/a> and her son visited the black Santa at <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macy%27s_Herald_Square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Macy\u2019s Herald Square<\/a> store last week. <\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>When my friend posted an adorable picture of her son with a black <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Claus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Santa<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City<\/a>, I was drawn to the idea of visiting a Santa who reflected my family\u2019s skin tones. I\u2019m black, and my 3-year-old son\u2019s father is white. I am raising him as a single mom with the help of my parents. Why should white Santa be the default?<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you can find children\u2019s books that feature a black Santa Claus, and he appears in some ornaments and other products. The website <a href=\"http:\/\/blacksanta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blacksanta.com<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/the_root_tv\/2016\/12\/watch-baron-davis-and-the-black-santa-co-deliver-melanin-this-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">founded by the former N.B.A. player Baron Davis<\/a>, sells products like T-shirts, hats and ornaments featuring images of black Santa. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UotNY6WRKbM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a classic episode of \u201cThe Cosby Show,\u201d<\/a> Dr. Huxtable explains to one of the children that as Santa drops down each chimney, his race morphs to match that of the family he\u2019s visiting \u2013 Asian, African-American, Caucasian and so on.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a nice sentiment, but the reality is that black Santas are pretty hard to find. When the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mall_of_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mall of America<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minnesota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minnesota<\/a> enlisted a black Santa this year, he was popular with children but his presence prompted an unpleasant racial <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/12\/09\/504930200\/black-santa-claus-is-a-hit-in-the-mall-but-faces-an-online-backlash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">backlash online<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/20\/well\/family\/seeing-santa-in-black-and-white.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When my friend posted an adorable picture of her son with a black Santa in New York City, I was drawn to the idea of visiting a Santa who reflected my family\u2019s skin tones. I\u2019m black, and my 3-year-old son\u2019s father is white. I am raising him as a single mom with the help of my parents. Why should white Santa be the default?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,20],"tags":[2640,25822,25823,2327],"class_list":["post-50835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-new-york-times","tag-saiyda-shabazz","tag-santa-claus","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54632,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50835\/revisions\/54632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}