christmas is well, it s about the best time of the whole year. no matter when they take place, modern era or period, christmas movies and television specials are always about someone who has lost their faith in humankind regaining it, saved by other people being kind because it s christmas. christmas is the landscape that everybody wants to paint on. everyone who tells stories is attracted to the heightened emotions that it brings. nostalgia plays such a huge part in christmas because it is part of so many people s childhoods. and being able to go back and relive those feelings every year by watching holiday movies is just joy. a christmas story is one of the best movies about nostalgia, family, and christmas. jingle bells, jingle bells. jingle all the way. a christmas story. i watch it every year at least twice. it s like the script of my life. can we go now? can we go now? yes. yes, we can go now. come on. it brings out every childhoo
Building tonight. Justine tells us whats the community is losing. Reporter amber says goodbye to the Homeless Youth alliance. A building that provides much needed medical services and counseling. Weve been here trefbl years. 12 years. Reporter executive director mary how tells me hya is being kicked out being the building needs retro fitting. The doors of the Center Closed for good tonight. The kids who come in here and get services are losing a space they get to be themselves. They get to just relax and watch tv and have a meal and have someone to talk to who is not judging them. They take care of all the people. Reporter the kids enjoyed one last meal of turkey and stuffing with their friends. Amber wants a christmas miracle, but. Developing tonight, police are investigating two Christmas Day shootings. Then they say theres a discount. So it was like, 10 bucks. So good. Reporter to our friends from la and atlanta, the day after christmas will be great. Were going to take baths tonigh
but it just works because it s an acknowledgment of the kid in all of us. and what would you like for christmas? santa has traditionally been depicted in film and tv as a jolly, fat, white man. hey, man, you ain t santa claus. over the years, we ve had debates about what santa should look like, what he can look like. what makes you think this isn t santa claus? because santa claus ain t black, he s white. and so even though we have the jeffersons, which was a revolutionary show at its time, 34 years later black-ish, another revolutionary show, has a similar episode. and there s still this expectation that santa should be white. there s only one santa. mm-hmm. but daddy wants to be one of santa s helpers, isn t that nice? but we ll still get our presents from the real santa, right? the white one? until we get to the point where it s not surprising to see a black or an asian or a latino santa, we re still going to be having this conversation.