and for millions of nonwhite kids, the message that santa is white might very well be one of those messages. in fact, one of the most insidious aspects of the racial regime in which we labor is that whiteness is the default, whiteness is invisible, whiteness does not exist as a thing, as something to be noticed. things just are white, people just are white, santa just is white. but here s the thing, until a few years ago, the president of the united states was white. he just was. that was a verifiable fact. but that changed. so, maybe santa could change, too? and speaking of changing santa, here s what santa should not be. this is santacon. if you re not familiar, it s basically a costumed pub crawl that started in san francisco in 1994 and since gone global. it acts as an opportunity for the same inebriated louts who crowd into the city to get publicly drunk on st. paddy s day to trade in their green for red and white and get publicly drunk in december. this year s santacon, a number
with santacon a couple years ago? yes, but not to this capacity. it is more party friendly. yes, my nightclub, my friends and i have called santos party house. our mascot is a santa and we were fortunate enough to host santacon, big night on a saturday, and just two days ago on saturday i djed at a warehouse party in brooklyn and saw no shannanigans of th they were gleeful with good cheer. no satanic santas. i don t want to smear the whole group, but if i don t i don t have a segment. eli, i was there and they were awful. they were lining the streets. i like drinking. i love drenging. but i don t like drunks. are we encouraging people to get drunk rather than enjoy the nectar in a positive way? we all know department store santas are raging alcoholics. all i hope is nobody had to
fox 5 s mack king is downtown. so they have not dampened the revelry, hey? i don t think it dampened turn out or spirits and most of these santas were well behaved. everyone else they were drunk, they were loud. they were definitely not dressed for this mess but they also weren t breaking the law. it was these bars getting in the most trouble for violating fire code. a spoke with a bunch of managers that didn t want to talk on camera but off camera they said it was their biggest day of the year and in their opinion counting heads and issuing summons wasn t in the santacon spirit. santas shouting, santas dancing, santas drinking. bud light. bloody marries. any beer they want to give me. jack and coke. beer. just keep going with the beer. for his first santacon he
major league baseball. one of its biggest young stars may have to sit out 50 games for breaking the rules. yes, the national league mvp now facing allegations of substance abuse in baseball. also, thousands in the streets in russia protesting against the government. now here at the top of the hour, let s start this morning. some of the headlines, the republican presidential debate in iowa. the new front-runner newt gingrich was the target of much of the night. his rivals lining up to take shots at him. mitt romney called him a career politician. rick perry called him out for marital infidelity. almost all criticized his recent comments when he called the palestinians a invented people. we ll have much more on this debate in a moment. also, american forces have left an air base in pakistan and taken their drone planes with them. pakistan told the u.s. to leave the base after a nato air strike killed two dozen pakistani soldiers last month. today was the deadline pakist
the drumbeat of litigation was never going to stop. as you re sitting there reeling off all of that, i can only imagine again, as we said, the weight, the gravity of all of this, and then the anniversary. it must have been just too much for mark madoff. thank you for your time. thank you, don. we go now to some interesting stories from across the country that caught our attention today. near our nation s capital, a combination of honor and holiday spirit. volunteers laid wreaths with red ribbons on the graves at arlington national cemetery. the group, wreaths across america, held a ceremony for the fallen troops. did you know there s santacon?