Late last month, in Lakewood – a quiet community in North Little Rock, Arkansas – Chris and Iddy Kennedy received a racist letter ‘by Santa’ telling them to remove the large Black Santa inflatable from the family’s front lawn.
“You should not try to deceive children into believing I am a Negro. I am Caucasian, White man to you,” the letter said.
“The first word that stuck out to me was Negro,” said Chris Kennedy.
For the Kennedys, all that matters is their 4-year-old, Emily.
“For her, Santa’s always been Black,” Chris Kennedy said.
Santa can be any colour you want. The one that gave birth to the narrative was Basil the Great a Hellene from Asia Minor. Olive in complexion, tough, serious and thin.