No, Jesus wasn’t a white dude

[markpkessinger]

48. There are two, distinct ways the term 'white' is used . . .

. . . and people like Megyn Kelly blur the distinction by using it with one intended meaning, then hiding behind the second meaning when challenged. Most of the time, when folks on Fox are railing about issues of 'black' versus 'white," they are using 'white' in the sense of (mostly northern) European ancestry (hence fairer skinned) and cultural provenance. But when challenged, they take cover under the term 'white' as being synonymous with the term 'Caucasian.' Jesus, as a Palestinian Jew, and St. Nicholas, a 4th century Greek bishop (from a part of Greece that lay in what is now Turkey), would both have been 'white' according to the second, more technical meaning, but neither would have been under the first, which is the more common usage of the term today. But I must say, the notion that the modern myth of Santa Claus, with his fair, ruddy complexion and lives at the North Pole with a herd of domesticated flying reindeer has anything much at all to do with the 4th Century Christian saint is simply beyond absurd in any case.