Jesus & Santa Are White - Megyn Kelly On Fox News
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- Опубликовано: 26 сен 2024
- "Fox News host Megyn Kelly on Wednesday assured children viewing her program that both Jesus Christ and Santa Claus were white men even though some liberals were trying to make them black. In a column for Slate earlier this week, Aisha Harris wrote that she had always been confused as a child because the Santa in her home had brown skin like her, but the Santa in malls and on television was always white. So Harris made the case "that America abandon Santa-as-fat-old-white-man" and adopt a penguin in his place...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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my santa is black because my black parents bought my gifts. not giving credit to someone who didnt get my gifts. Santa is BLACK at my home.
Joseph Underwood Santa's Mexican in mine.
That's a really stupid way to look at it.
HFHFHFH HFHFHFH It's a joke.
Geo Rock Yo, sorry to break it to you homie, but I think your caps lock is broken.
Geo Rock How benevolent of you.
Since I am not American can someone please explaine to me how come FOX is considered to be a news chanel, because in Europe and most of the world the reporters are not allowed to say something that is not a fact or is based on their own opinion. This reminds me of a trashy cheap talk show. :/
+jasse basse ha we already know that europe doesnt have free speech. ofcourse people like you are happy with that. fox also gets better ratings than the rest combined bc fox is aware of dumb it is to hate santa being white. and yes, santa is white. way to have no clue who santa is. maybe you should stop letting people think for you.
Thank you for your answer but my question was directed to educated americans.
"Europe does not have free speach" Are you high?
Stop writing to me, I do not waste my time on ignorent uneducated fools.
jasse basse name some that have free speech then.
+rushballin jasse said she wanted an educated american. You sound like the ones the rest of the world makes fun of. Maybe you should go back to school.
SGF Rai jasse acted as if the rest of the world had speech, and wasnt swamped in leftist propaganda. im sure shes very educated.
How can Santa be white if he isn't real?
lmfaooooo
Because he's based off of a real person. There's not many imaginary characters in popular lore that isn't based off of someone who was actually real.
its a story idiot
He was born in modern day Turkey, dude. He was distinctly brown skinned in almost every historical painting. even 17th century Russians interpreted him as dark skinned
John Doe
"Jesus was a white man." Hahahahaha. This is hilarious. Talk about fake news. Lol.
This is the EPITOME of fake news.
@Laura Hackstein Santa Claus is based on a real person, St. Nicholas, who lived in today's Turkey and was not white. So why did they choose Rovaniemi as fictional home of Santa?
@Laura Hackstein I agree with your first three sentences. I don't understand why did you insult me in next ones. Santa Claus is fictional, based on St. Nicholas, and they made him white because they're bunch of racists. You're probably going to say, since Santa is fictional, they could have made him of any color they wanted, but, since he's based on a real person, why did they change his color? They had a problem with black skin?
Well Fox News is known for telling lies.
He was white, because there is a photo of him in my bible.
I grew up in Africa, I remember sitting on a black santa's lap as a kid. Santa is not real, but please tell me where they are going to find a jolly white man, in Kenya, in the year 1999?
somali. i loled
Not gonna happen. lol.
Ali Guul Are you referring to the creator of this thread or the guy who misspelled Somalia? Little confused.
Your funny....Honey Santa is all colors...he is multi racial, just like us all. She is simply racist, and wants Santa for herself. Better not tell her they got mexican and black ones in the mall, she might have a seizure.
it is fully ok, when in Africa Santa is presented as a black guy. But why the hell force it in america ?
Perhaps some of the problem is that's most fox viewers still believe in Santa
lmaoo I know right wtf
hahahahhaha brilliant
He is/was real. But I get what you mean.
lol. dude thats the best comment ive heard.
Lol!!!
I can care less if he's white, I still want my gifts
SO SILLY LOL
Your Santa is furry!
XD!!!!
I thinkyou mean you cant care less...not can care less *facepalm*
Emily Booth no he/she meant can Cuz it wouldn't make sense if it says can't.
She needs to realize that Jesus was born in Israel which means he was a dark color and not white.
Not necessarily. Have you seen what Israelis look like?
@@tml184
You mean the white people from euro?
The ones from north africa or arab countries look like middle eastern.
@@tml184, the Bible says he had skin of copper and hair of wool. Don’t sound like a white man to me.
It is scary to think some kids are watching fox news.
And listening to it. Fox has an agenda, just as the Statist, Progressive-left dominated MSM has one, namely, promoting the power and appeal of the state, and its projected power over individual lives.
It's scary to think that *anyone* is watching Fox News (for anything other than entertainment purposes).
Jaxson Bateman It's scary to think that anyone is still calling it Fox 'News'
Jaxson Bateman
I don't think I could watch Fox News for entertainment; I would just cringe.
It's scary to think that any adults watch it.
Proof that Jesus was Black:
1. He called everybody "brother."
2. He liked gospel.
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.
LULZ!
Don't forget the water into wine trick! "Normally I don't do this but...BING!..y'all go on and keep the party going!"
Jesus was not white or black, if you’re white or black you’re American. He was olive-brown skinned, with wooly hair
That's funny but He didn't have Ыаск skiп 🤷🏼♀️
@@esewhachudoinn are you… stupid?
You're all fools. Santa is Asian. Why do you think all the toys say made in China on them? xD
That could me true lol
PriusRaj Lol
Hilarious!
PriusRaj -hahahahahahanahahahanaha!
that is funny lol
The modern Santa Claus image in red and white suit was invented by coca cola for marketing. Before that he was in blue robes
I read that the original sinta klaas costume was green! But whatever the case it was not red & white Megyn Kelly!
Green indeed
First reaction: bitch, Santa doesn't even exist 😂
truth
Santa is white.
😂😂😂😂😂
Jesus said his foot was the color of bronze and hair of sheep wool that's not a white man
yea not arab either lol
That verse is not literal it's symbolic.
Jesus was Jewish... He definitely wouldnt be white.
Matuco BULLAguero sorry but Jesus was Jew not Jew-ish there's a difference look it up
kev t it was literal
its foolish that conservatives would want to rage over the race of a fictional person like Santa claus
becaus they are raceist ! thir minds full of raceist stuff from childhood they grow up in it ! and some times they even do not relize they are beeing raceist . i saw a conervativ once says that only whites contributed to civlistation . and forgat that books and gunpowder just 2 of the most important things that changed the world are midel eastern and asian technolgies .
Well they do it for Trump...why not Santa?
Reading that was difficult.
Regardless, conservatives are not racist by default.
Steve Fowler Don't be a nob
It's almost christmas!
I love the fact that FOX News spends time debating the race of a fictional character
I am a muslim and you are wrong Jesus is not fictional he the one of the mightiest of Prophets of Allah
+gangstafassi Jesus isnt fact. Neither is Allah.
+JoJo Pemb at least they debate with BOTH sides unlike CNN, ABC, BBC who get triggered instantly
Wait - Santa isn’t real?? 😱😢😭
Whilst we debate the fiction of a real character ie trump 😂
only in America people think Jesus was white😔😂
MAMA BEAR shit only white people cause brown and blks don't 😂😂😂😂
MAMA BEAR Only in America do people think he existed.
I don't and I am from America. Sorry to burst you bubble.
@Kirito lmfaooo go to school
Not this American
We All Know Santa is from Coca Cola
All you know is wrong!
"The modern version of Santa Claus was not created by Coca-Cola; Sundblom's illustrations were based upon what had already become the standard image of Santa, as noted in a New York Times article published in 1927, four years before the appearance of Sundblom's first Santa-based Coca-Cola ad"
www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/cocacola.asp#6dGPYJejRAzDFdr7.99
baldieman64
True enough but Coca Cola did perfect the image . He is closer to Yule Puke than St Nick
Really? just no. nonono. Saint Nicolas was real person, not from coke. Santa's been around since like the 17 or 1800s. maybe not as santa claus, but as Saint nick. the Santa claus idea came from a poem called "The night before christmas", where I think they call him "Saint nick" but I may be wrong. thats why they call him SAINT NICK!
xbatusai 😂😂😂😂😂
It makes me sad when people doesn't recognize sarcasm and a joke. I guess you have to buy a brain to have one these days.
Jesus was a brown semite from the middle-east, born from either of the two ethnically semitic tribles.(arabs or jews).
I always laugh when westerners think Jesus was a blond guy with blue eyes.
With this in mind, it doesnt bother me at all with a brown/black Santa.
"You can't change facts and try to change them to fit in some sort of political agenda" I BURST OUT laughing :D
Jesus' real name (if the reports are to be believed) would basically be transliterated into English directly from Hebrew and Aramaic as "Yehoshua ben Yosef". If Jesus came back today nigga wouldn't make it through airport TSA security. A swarthy Middle Eastern guy with hair like wool and brass-colored skin (Book of Revelations), a pretty Middle Eastern-sounding name, and a beard (he likely had a beard as was the custom of Jewish rabbis back then), talking about throwing out money-changers (bankers) and spreading the wealth around the community to anyone in need? Aw hell naw! He'd detained in Guantanamo Bay by the end of the hour.
They kill him every time he comes back!
That is true. I always find it facinting how those who only want to protect the rich turn to a religion that constantly speak about giving to the poor and taking care of those around you. If Fox news met the actual Jesus their heads would explode.
***** - While there are indeed Ethiopian Jews, similar to Ashkenazim and Sephardim Jews, they're a group that came about from the original Hebrews expanding out and intermixing with other ethnic groups. Ethiopians are related to Semitic people but are themselves non-Semitic. Ethiopians are most closely related to Somalis, Egyptians and Sudanese Nubians (who of course aren't Semites either). The Ethiopian language, however, is Semitic. Biblical Hebrews are most closely related to Bedouins and Middle Eastern Arabs.
Mizrahim Jews are the closest group to the original Hebrews. Mizrahi includes descendants of the Hebrews and people who are descendants of Hebrews mixing with neighboring Arabs and West Asians. A lot of modern-day Palestinians are descendants of the Biblical Hebrews. Most have simply either converted to Christianity or Islam over the centuries or mixed with Jordanian Arab neighbors.
Venefica82 - If nothing else I'll always give credit to the ruling class that they somehow managed to turn a faith/religion with an obviously quasi-communistic founder into a religion that is considered a divine endorsement for Laissez-Faire Capitalism.. The invention of the "Protestant Ethic" as an endorsement of capitalism and hyper-individualism from Jesus is one of the biggest and most successful switcheroos in written human history.
***** - Agree with the first point.
The second point, no. There's no evidence that the original Hebrews were Ethiopian. They even refer to Ethiopians (Midianites) as a separate people. Hebrews come from the Cohen Gene Haplogroup closely related to Arabs whereas Ethiopians come from a different but related E1b strand.
Agree with the third point.
Fourth point, southern Sudanese are actually a Nilotic/Nilo-Saharan people. They're native to the region that's now Chad, east Sudan and northern Ethiopia. Modern Cushitic Ethiopians are descendants of people who moved northward from southern Ethiopia and northern Kenya.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilotic
They're not related to West Africans. West Africans are from the Niger-Congo ethnic strand.
i hate to tell you Christians who think Jesus was white that if he was actually real he would be middle eastern not white.
***** what the hell are you talking about, "before a millenium" what? learn some english, bitch
That's funny. Because Jesus was not White. In fact the image of Jesus portrayed today has been established after the death of Cesare Borgia, the son of Rodrigo Borgia. Rodrigo was the Pope at the time during the 15th century, if my history is correct. During this time, the church was so formidable politically, that it had much influence in how things were to be received. Jesus, like most everyone else in the Middle East, had dark skin; a bronze-ish hue. and his hair was like wool. In fact, Jesus was not anything special to look at. He had no majesty about him at all. He looked like his disciples. Why do you think Judas had to distinguish Him from the others by kissing Him? How ironic is it that Megyn is so against the possibility of a Black or Penguin Santa, when she is most comfortable with a White Jesus, when it is factually not true, and has been changed to make others feel comfortable too!
She's right though, Jesus was white because Jesus isn't the messiah he's Zeus and Cesar Borgia! Lmao, and yes Satan Claws oops I mean Santa Clause was white as well lmao! And his elves are his little demons which is why they have the pointy ears and sound like the way they do. These people are proud to claim something Satanic let them have it.
SoulKidVids Jesus was the messiah sorry. Zues was a mythical figure nothing more.
TheStrawbeery
How was Jesus the Messiah when at the time he was the Messiah his name wasn't Jesus? That name came later after he was long gone. I've already illustrated logical PROOF Jesus is Zeus there are no J's or U's in the Hebrew Alphabet what does that mean? That means the ORIGINAL Bible which was the Torah & Tanahk DID not contain any letters such as J or U. You don't translate Jose in English do you? Since when do you translate names? Use your common sense. That is....if you HAVE any....
TheStrawbeery You say Jesus, Muslims say Mohammad, potEto potato,
It's all bullshit, and yes Jesus is on par with Zeus, as people of ancient greece whole heart-idly believed he was real,
also do you know who Dionysus, you probably don't because you probably have never taken ancient theology at a university, He was called the messiah well before the jesus myth came around and copied it,
Anyways, Dionysus was born on December 25 to a virgin women in a manger, He was a traveling teacher who performed miracles. He “rode in a triumphal procession on an ass.” He was a sacred king killed and eaten in an eucharistic ritual for fecundity and purification. Dionysus rose from the dead on March 25. He was the God of the Vine, and turned water into wine. He was called “King of Kings” and “God of Gods.” He was considered the “Only Begotten Son,” Savior,” “Redeemer,” “Sin Bearer,” Anointed One,” and the “Alpha and Omega.” He was identified with the Ram or Lamb. His sacrificial title of “Dendrites” or “Young Man of the Tree” intimates he was hung on a tree or crucified.
SoulKidVids What we can learn fro the ancient tacitus reports christians derrived their name from a historical person called christus(from the latin).or christ.And that name didn't come after he was gone.Jesus didn't even arrived until the 3rd century.and i stated jesus wasn't zeus.Zeus is a made up god who wasn't even real.Maybe you forgotten the universal language at the time was greek.
I can't believe in fact that the our culture is so obsessed with the color of people's skin and race. It is so stupid.
actually i'm Asian.
Actually you're semitic.
I do, rather I'm very stupid for not noticing that he's Korean. Very very stupid of me. But still if that's the case he's Korean. Asian is too generalized.
MrDragon584
Bist du Deutscher ?? (Deinem "Humor" nach zu urteilen)
Lol the fact that they are debating about Santa Claus 😂😂
+petty hitting history is so stupid
Fox News constantly bothers me
Santa has always been black in my home, I mean if Santa is technically your parents or whomever takes care of you, then there are different Santa's for every color!!!!!!!
Amen.
He's not black. Or white. He's middle eastern. Debate ended.
@Christopher Martin didn’t ask
@Christopher Martin to start off, you don’t know me. I’m an anonymous person. I could be a transgender toaster, for all you know. Secondly, I’m just reporting on facts. Ethnically speaking, Jesus would be considered middle eastern, not black or white. In terms of skin color, he could’ve had olive, tan or even black skin, but that’s really up to debate since there are no records from his time documenting his skin color.
And saying one “kind” is all the same is racist, just to add a last point.
@Christopher Martin even the guy in this video proves that Jesus was middle eastern, but nobody seems to care. It’s all self centered “he was black because I’m black” or “he was white because I’m white”. I’m literally reporting on facts. You say I’m white based on absolutely no evidence. And you call me an enemy for some reason too. Everything is some big war to you for some reason beyond my understanding. Grow up.
Nice to see Fox covering the important issues of the day. Coming up next; debating the ethnic makeup of the tooth fairy. Stay tuned!
lol 😂😂😂😂
Phew, thankfully we won't have that problem with the tooth fairy in Spain as our tooth guy is a mouse (oh wait, is that rattist ?)
steelersguy74 lol lol lol
I wonder what they think of Spains ratoncito Pérez the little tooth mouse
the tooth fairy is fictional
"Cant take facts and change them to fit a political agenda" its like theyre immune to irony
ramis hashmi spot on.
Saint nicholas was from turkey and he was a greek bishop, whats the irony in here?
Great video! Imagine Fox News being your primary source of information....that's some scary shit!
Imagine if TYT is your number one news channel which is far worse.
JJ Badmann I'll ponder that as I laugh at Trump's latest gaffe, lol.
Samuel Robertson
you're right, things will get messy at fox news if Hilary wins.
Unfortunately I know that first hand, I live with my older brother and his wife and her adult son, and FOX news is the only news show they watch! And they believe everything they say! I'm the only non conservative in my family! Though both my parents were more like me, but they are both gone, so its just me and my two older brothers! And one is totally conservative, the one with the wife, and the other just doesn't really understand that the conservatives aren't on the side of the poor and he's also a racist, so he votes for them now because he sees them as being more like him! He used to vote for democrats, like my dad did, but now he listens too much to my other brother and his wife and son! Even though he struggles with money and hates the rich, he doesn't seem to understand that the democrats are the ones who can help him, not the conservatives! And yes living with a bunch of FOX News worshipers is scary shit! I even had to fake being one, just to get along with them! But I block them on my social sites, so they don't know how I really feel! Me I have always been one to look at all the facts about anything, and not just go by one site or one set of peoples opinions! From what I have witnessed first hand, from my family, is conservatives only listen to another conservatives opinion, no one else's!
Clara Johnson I work in a neighborhood and at a place where the people are avid Republicans and FOX News watchers and I totally agree with you. They only talk to each other and live in a bubble. A lot of them are prejudice, angry, envious, and fearful. I'm an Independent but I get along with them because I accept them as they are. Their facts may be wrong (in my opinion) about a lot of things but their feelings are real and I acknowledge them. There's a saying where I'm from "what you eat doesn't make me shit," lol. And that's how I live my life. I can only imagine how it must feel to wake up everyday and walk around with such negativity 24/7. Hopefully you'll get your own place if possible where you can be yourself and get away from the negativity. Best wishes....
I'll never forget when I told my young nephew that jesus wasnt white "wuuuuut"
Everyone knows Fox's biggest audience is 4-10 yr olds.
Cesar G Or people with the brains of 4-10 year olds.
I guess it is like Budha. he was indian but he is depicted as with chinese eyes most of time..
He was from Northern India, so it is possible he had East Asian eyes. But statues of the Buddha are not supposed to depict Siddartha himself, they are supposed to show a beautiful, peaceful person as a focal point of what enlightenment looks like. The fat laughing Buddhas are actually quite offensive to most Buddhists.
That's more of a depiction of enlightenment. It's supposed to be symbolic. If you look at statues of Siddhartha he doesn't look chinese at all.
Buddha wasn't Indian. He was born in Nepal of shakya family and was enlightened in India.
Budda's clan Shakya is Indian phenomenon and they came to Nepal from rural India. Even some scientists believe that Shakya came to India from Central Asia.
Shivani Pradhan just for the records, there was no country called "India" by those times.. what we called India in old times is not about an especific region but more about ethenicity groups or something alike living in a continguous area..
This is why at an early age I explained to my kids Santa Claus was your parents, grandparents friends and family, there's no chubby white guy coming down the chimney!
Actually Jesus was hispanic. He fixed my bus when it had broken down at Mount Teide.
Did you let him take the wheel after?
Jean D. Ta-ha-ha
Of course it was Jesus! It was most last likely a mistranslation when it was stated he was a carpenter - he was a mechanic and a really good one too
first of all Jesus and Saint Nicholas AKA Santa weren't white they were Middle Eastern Arabic
You do know there was no middle east back then right?
Also you do know the middle east is part of Africa right?
Tim Bradford Actually the Middle East is a part of the continent of Asia not Africa
Tim Bradford
i don't know if you are joking or not but that's totally false, the middle east was always there, probably wasn't called like that but it was always there, and it's part of Asia not Africa.
Not Arabic though.
@Notre Aira learn idiot stop being ignorant he was a Jew because he was born of a Jewish mother.
I honestly can't believe she said that. I think I'm in denial that anyone can be that confused about the origins of commonly known holy people.
Elizabeth Polanzke blacks were here first y'all whites lie about history but RUclips wakes up millions
Ben Dairy santa is an historical person, his name was saint nicholas, he was a greek bishop that was born in what we know today as Turkey, he was not white.
Elizabeth Polanzke ikr😂😂😂😂😂😂
you may disagree however that type of response is not acceptable anymore and i will see you barred from this site
Ikr
"Santa's white"
Santa
Is
Not
Real
why are people looking for superiority so bad? 😩
+fakeaccount8888 sad reality, now everyone is trying to trace every legendary icon's racial background...
Henry Dube OR is it a sad reality that we white washed things?
Connor Appel another sad reality 😥
The modern, red suit and white beard santa was designed by the Coca Cola corporation.
Interesting, makes sense... i just want to know where elves came in. I know reindeer are big around Holland ect so thats where they came from.
lol you buffoon no it wasnt it was thomas nast who first drew it and coca cola made their santa look like the one he drew... why not educate yourself.
RTaT why not simply correct him and not insult him, hmm?
Megyn is correct. Santa™ and Jesus™ are indeed white.
I see what you did there.
It all depends on how you define white. If Arabs are white, then Jesus was white. As for Santa, no question that he was white. He was the invention of the Dutch who made up the jolly elf named Sinter Klaus.
SPOILER: santa is not real
Actionbastard
LOL!
Better run for cover, the radical Christians are coming for you!
Actionbastard He is real! He's on the Council of Nine in Imagination Land! (South Park reference)
Actionbastard - The historical person was most likely real as most historians agree. As for performing miracles...yeah, no evidence of that.
Actionbastard tbh i do believe that there was a jesus 2000 years ago but i dont believe he was the son of god.
Cenk Santa is not just based on saint Nicholas. He is based off several European legends from all across Europe that came together when people immigrated to America. You can see this happen in some of the older books and stories. The current commercialized Santa that we use was actually made globally popular from Coca-Cola's ads where they featured Santa on them
Sooo... for literally HUNDREDS of years the **entire planet** has accepted a white Santa! But this *one time* they put a black Santa in The Mall of America it's an issue??? Ridiculousness! It's The Mall of AMERICA (which is a melting pot of races & cultures)!!! There should've been a melting pot of Santa's in that mall; black, asian, hispanic, etc...
... America isnt a multicultural country its a multiracial yes but not multicultural
@@thecatface8255 What a strange argument you make??? It is a multi-racial environment that automatically brings with it it's multicultural traditions & buying choices that keep that culture alive.
You basically just said America has lots of different races but there is no culture attached to those races???? You must not be non-White to make that clearly irrational statement.
Santa was fictional, THAT'S like saying we should have different raced elmo's...ELMO IS FICTIONAL!!!
Jesus also had a Chevy pickup, drank coors, and exclusively wore hunting camo with confederate flag embroidery
What does it matter what color they are? For fuck's sake...
Because TYT has to attack Fox News on a daily basis that's why
Manuel Arturo Gomez Morales Well, fox news is still a thing, so yea why not attack arrogance and ignorance?
Only if you are obsessed enough to attack them daily
Considering they embody and perpetuate many issues both in the American Psyche and in American society, it seems like a healthy "obsession" (if you want to call it that) to call them out and eventually take them down.
Leave it to the media to debate over Santa Claus, a non-existent figure. Slow claps for all of you.
I dont know about Jesus but God is definately black. He looks like Morgan Freeman and I like it.
P.S: I'm white douchebag.
haha that made me laugh, have a good day man.
Morgan Freeman narrated gods existence.
Collin Berend Alright you kind of going just a little bit to far with the joke.
Dennis Thompson
Then ignore it. Not really that bad to pop out once and a while.
Jesus was Israeli. It’s bad enough that Megyn vocalized her ignorance,but no one called her out for it. Everyone on that panel went mute.
As an Israeli,Jesus was dark skinned.
The most ridiculous part was that she thought kids might be watching.
I sincerely hope not
Never talk Religion, Race, or Politics on RUclips
Dear Kevin someone must awaken you from your dogmatic slumber! For this is the very place for the exchange of ideas! Why do you think it was created for the exchange of music videos only. This program invites you to comment on anyone's post. Including and not limited to -- News broadcasts. And it is important to discuss things like Religion, Race, or Politics on You Tube or My Space or FB. It is when we do not discuss them that we wind up in trouble with our religion being taken from us as racist, or even this, a black Jesus or Santa? If no one defends or debates we have nothing but chaos, the kind of chaos stuff like this in the media starts.
Now, Santa wasn't just based on St. Nicholas, he was also based on different versions of father Christmas from many different European countries. Currently his white image represents the majority of the Americans right now, so I don't really see a white Santa doing much harm, but neither does a black Santa.
What REALLY shocks me about this is the idea the Jesus is white. Christians can plead ignorant of the Turkish St Nicholas, but white Jesus? REALLY? Christians KNOW that Jesus was a JEW from the middle east! They really have no excuse.
Yeah jesus was a hebrew, for some reason some americans think hebrew is a cuss word.
There is still a lot of anti-antisemitism in this country to the point where Christians have white washed their most iconic figure. It's very strange to me.
True! Jesus the man was a Semite from the Middle East. He likely had an olive or bronze complexion like modern people of southern Asia and northern Africa.
Turkish people ARE white. What are you talking about? They're Caucasian. And as for Jesus, not saying he WAS Mediterranean, but if he was, he was definitely white.
sadetwizelve a b s o l u t e l y !
"sAntA iS wHiTe" ..haha oKay sweetie whatever you think.
US is too obsess with the issues of races.
It seems that we're ahead of the curve on race issues and behind the curve on others. I don't think you'd ever see a racist chant at a US sporting event, for instance.
Santa is white so what he is not real.
Jesus is not white. He is from Isreal and lived in Egypt.
As a matter of fact he hid in Egypt as a child. How can a white child hid in Egypt without looking like the people in that region.
Oh my goodness. They shouldn't let these people on tv telling lies like they're truth. Why I don't watch Fox news.
This should be played during every Christmas. 😂
Santa is a fictitious character but based on St Nikolas who was originally from Greece I believe. The story makes him somewhat magical so he can be any colour really. He is the spirit of Christmas giving, so to speak.
I cannot imagine Jesus being white, being from the part of the world that he was. How ignorant could people be. Jesus was of middle-eastern descent. He was not born in New Jersey, lol.
Whenever you hear people (complaining) about the lack of a "White Entertainment Television", you can just point them to Fox News.
She chose three other people to speak, and they all just nod and agree?
*****
Well, yea , I like that TYT gets their salaries.
Actually, the male commentator disagreed with her on some points in the full clip. He said something like (loose paraphrase) a black Santa wouldn't unravel the fabric of Western society. Mrs. Kelly couldn't concede that point, graciously or otherwise.
treismac
Do you have a link for me
treismac: i think the male commentator (based on his expression) wanted to hold back being a guest of the show, but then responded when kelly addressed him specifically, and notice how short time became upon hearing his answer. kingofshitland go here mediamatters.org/video/2013/12/11/megyn-kelly-wants-kids-at-home-to-know-that-jes/197238
Mike Black She talks way too much lol
Santa is white and the elves are asian, mrs claus is eastern european
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JESUS👏🏽WAS👏🏽BORN👏🏽IN👏🏽THE👏🏽MIDDLE👏🏽EAST
Periodt.
its kinda funny how the gene for blue eyes is barely 2000 years old but apparently jesus among millions of people who are brown and dark brown eyes had blue eyes
You're not taking into account 2000 years of ethnic/ racial migration and mixing so you cant say he even looks like modern people from bethlehem, but i get your point Jesus wasn't white
*****
Because we ALL know the average American considers Osama bin Laden or even Cenk "White".
I get what you're saying though.
*****
no according to US vs Thind and other court cases, just because being born in that region of the world qualifies you as being caucasian it doesn't qualify you as being "white"....
Jon12213 Wow Jon, that's not a commonly known thing, but you're dead on. Important case in our disgusting history vis a vis Asia and immigration.
Rick Barber
our disgusting history?
Rick Barber
part of my field of study
Jesus the Greatest north European that has ever lived
Santa the greatest north European that has ever lived
White Trump supporters think Jesus is American 😂😂😂😂
Satan your bed is waiting, nothing new about you and your Hail Mary cousins very 😢
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Wtf
@@elsantrey5078 I second that. Wtf!
Can't tell if he's insulting you or trying to come on to you 😅
Err she didnt say Santa was American she said hes white. Fake news???
@@thecatface8255 it was to sarcastically "mock" fox news as Jesus was obviously an ethnic Arab born to a Jewish mum in the Middle East. 😂 😇👶
Jesus is described as colored in the Bible. This is not about race it's about Truth. You have to acknowledge all truth from the Bible.
***** lol ... Jesus physical attributes isn't mentioned at all in the Quran.
Jesus is Jewish.
Zontafer Eden Jesus was Jewish and he was DARK SKIN... WAKE UP My friend to TRUTH! NOW all the black people that wanna claim to be JEWISH HAVE EVERY RIGHT!!!!!!
***** you are entitled to your opinion. we will find the truth when we die.
80's Crack Baby I wish all people would think like this. What's the point of arguing about things you can't know as if you knew them?
Fighting over the color of two fictonal characters. Wow the stupidity of humans boggles the mind.
Of course Jesus isn't fictional and Santa came from a non fictional character....
Joshsmoove
Jesus is a fictional character. Don't be foolish. You having faith in his existence does not make it a fact. And of course if you had any shred of critical thinking, you'd recognize that the story of Jesus has actually never been proven to by true and makes Harry Potter like claims.
TailorK9 To each his own. Jesus isn't a character nor is he fictional. Jesus God and the Holy Spirit have exited since the beginning of time. Its the only way this earth was created to begin with. It's your choice whether you believe or not but don't call someone foolish for believing in what they believe in.
Not only is Santa not white. He's not even real...
Same goes for Jesus.
Jesus is Palestinian.
Santa is White, because that is how his Character was created. White, Fat, Rosy Cheeks, Red & White suit, and flies around on reindeer. Jesus was white because that is how his physical appearance was and is recorded in ancient Hebrew Texts from Jewish Priests that were living among him at the time he was on earth. As a matter of fact it is those very descriptions of him that were recorded in Hebrew texts that our image of Jesus is based on to this very day. The long hair, beard, slightly rosy complextion etc...
The Metalnaut it is like saying Indians and Gandhi were English because England was ruling India at that time
Saint Nicholas was Greek so he would either be white or olive skinned with dark hair. Btw St Nicholas is one of the biggest saints in Greece and the patron Saint of our navy and sailors :)
He originated from Turkey then went to Greek.
+GunzBlazein180 he was born Greek .. he didnt turn Greek.. Turks did not exist back then, Turks came to the region 1300 years later
Come on, I'm black. When I hear people trying to transform Santa and Jesus into black characters I feel sad. They are not black, nor white, but surely not black. Black people...we should create our own stuff. Suddenly someone will want a black superman too.
You are completely right. It makes you want to go postal on these people who care so much about this shit... People need to get real.
Santa Clause is an adopted legend. He is open source. No one race has ownership of his story. TYT clearly chronicled his origins for you.
nationofmillions Personally, I tend to believe Wikipeda more than TYT. Happy new year!
Peace
Don't get caught up in color. They're evil, and good people in every nation, tribe, and tongue.
What is olived-skin? I here this all the time. But it is not true. Olives are either green when unripe, or very dark, like black, when ripe. Since no one is green, then we have to say very dark skin, like black, is true olive skin.
Besides, skin color God doesn't judge, He judges your hearts. Is your heart truly for Him, or for the devil, this world, and the riches of this world?
Jehovah God, You are a great Father.Thank You for your Son, Yeshua Ha Massiach (Jesus The Messiah)
Jesus is our Living Passover.
Acts Chapter 4 verse 12: " There is no salvation through anyone else, nor is there any other name under heaven given to the human race by which we are to be saved."
Isaiah 9 vs. 6, " For unto us a Child is born. Unto us a Son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. "
Who is Christ? Who is Jesus?
Born of a virgin, Mary.
Matthew Chapter 1 verse 20: " behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him (Joseph), in a dream and said, "Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary as your wife, for that (Christ)which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus, the Christ, is God's word made flesh. Jesus is Jehovah God's (The Creator's) Word made into flesh.
1 John chapter 5 verse 7: " For there are three that bear a record in heaven, The Father, The Word, and the Holy Spirit: and these three are one."
John chapter 1 verse 1: "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
John chapter 1 verse 14: " And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth."
John chapter 1 verse 10: " He was in the world, and the world knew Him not."
Hebrews chapter 4 verse 12: " For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart."
How beautiful and awesome is God's Word, who is our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, magnificent in all His glory, is He. Amen!
John's Vision Of Christ Seated On His Throne In Heaven:
Revelation chapter 4 verse 2 to 3: " Immediately, I (John), was in the Spirit, and behold a throne sat in Heaven, and One sat on the throne. And He who sat there was like a jasper and a sardius stone in appearance, and there was a rainbow around the throne, in appearance like an emerald."
Why did Christ Jesus came and sacrificed His precious life for sinners like us?
Christ (God's Word made into flesh), came because through flesh (Adam's flesh) sin entered the world, and then because of sin death entered the whole earth. Through flesh(Jesus Christ's flesh), the earth will be saved, sin is destroyed, and the curse of death shall be broken, death and the grave shall be cast into hell.
Christ, who is God's Word made into flesh, sacrificed His life for us. He was crucified for our sins and transgressions.
Christ died, and on the third day He resurrected in the flesh, conquering death and the grave. Now, Christ is seated in Heaven, at the right hand of Power(God). Through Christ's sacrifice we gain Salvation through God's abundant mercy and grace. We are reconciled and recompensed back to God, through the shed blood of His beloved Son Christ Jesus.
John chapter 3 verse 16: " For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believes in Him, shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
Romans chapter 5 verse 8: " But God demonstrates His love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
Christ came to undo the sin and eternal death brought upon the world through the sin of Adam.
Death in Adam, Life In Christ:
Romans chapter 5 verse 19: " For as by one man's disobedience(Adam), many were made sinners, so also by one Man's obedience(Jesus) , many will be made righteous."
Romans chapter 5 verse 18: " Therefore, as through one man's (Adam's) offense, judgement came to all men, resulting in condemnation, even through one Man's (Christ's) righteous act, the free gift came to all men, resulting in the justification of life."
Romans chapter 5 verse 17: " For if by the one man's offense(Adam's offense), death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in the life through the One(Jesus Christ).
Romans chapter 5 verse 12: " Therefore, just as through one man (Adam), sin entered the world, and death through sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned."
Romans chapter 5 verse 21: " "So that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
Do you now see that through Adam, sin and death entered the world, so that is why Christ Jesus came to give life, and give it more abundantly? Yes, Christ came to give eternal life through Salvation.
Adam's flesh brought sin, death, destruction, and condemnation.
1 Corinthians 15 : 21-22, "For since by man came death, by Man also came the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ, all shall be made alive."
Christ's sacrifice, the crucifixtion of His flesh, brings reconciliation of sins, life, resurrection, eternal life, salvation
Christ is coming back again, not as a sacrificial lamb. He is coming back as a roaring, waring lion, to destroy sin, death, and the grave once and for all. Amen! Amen! Hallelujah!
Revelation chapter 22 verse 12 to 13: " And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. "
Now do you see friends, Why Christ Jesus is so Important for our Salvation? Yes.
Now, do you understand why there is only one way to God, and that is only through Christ Jesus? Yes.
Christ is Salvation. Christ is our Lord and Saviour. Christ is the only way to God. Christ is the only Mediator between God and men(us humans).
God loves us so much, He does not want anyone to perish in hell. God wants all sinners to be saved. That is why He sent His Word to save the world. God's Word became flesh, and dwelt among us to save us.
Will you accept Christ and be saved?
Romans chapter 6 verse 23: " For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord."
John Chapter 3 verse 16: " For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that who ever believes in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life."
Salvation is free!
Christ already paid the price, all you have to do is receive salvation through acceptance of Jesus Christ, Yeshua Ha Massiach, repent of your sins, and keep His commands.
So who is Christ?
He is The Word Of God. He is the Son of God. He is God. He is the image of the invisible God. He is the Alpha and Omega. He is the beginning and the end. He is the Great I Am. He is Emmanuel. He is The Christ. He is The Messiah. He is The Creator. He is our Lord and Saviour. He is our Mediator. He is the Lion and the Lamb. He is Salvation. He is the way, the truth, and life. He is The Rock. Amen! I love you Lord!
God created the heavens and the earth with His spoken Word. Did you know, that Jesus is that Word, through which all things were created? Yes.
John chapter 14 verse 6: " Jesus said to him," I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Colassians chapter 1 verse 15 to 16:
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven, and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him."
John chapter 1 verse 1 to 4:
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men."
I hope that you know Christ, and understand Christ better now, to the glory of God. Amen!
Christ is for all who will receive Him.
This is how our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said we should pray. Matthew chapter 6 verse 9 to 13:
"Our Father in heaven, Hallowed be Your name, Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen."
Now that you understand who Christ is, share Christ with others. Amen!
Repent of your sins. Sin no more! Be baptized in Jesus Name.
Submit to Jehovah-God.
Love God with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit. Keep God's Commandments. Love one another.
Forgive one another. It is written, "resist the devil, submit to God, and the devil will flee from you."
Hate sin with all your heart, mind, body, soul, and spirit.
Only Jesus The Christ, can baptize you with God's Holy Spirit. Only Christ can give you The Holy Spirit, and the Gifts of The Spirit.
Acts 11 vs. 15 to 16, " And as I began to speak, The Holy Spirit fell upon them, as upon us at the beginning. Then I remembered the word of the Lord, how He said, "John indeed baptized with water, but you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit."
Read Exodus Chapter 20, The 10 Commandments of God.
Share the Gospel of Christ with others.
I have a few points.
1.) If it's racist to want Santa to be white, it's also racist to want him to not be white. The people who want Santa to not be white care just as much about his race as the people who want him to be white.
2.) This is only an issue because adults insist on lying to their kids about Santa. If kids believe that Santa Claus is real, they're going to be confused as to why he's black sometimes, and why he's Arab sometimes. If, instead of lying to children, we just tell them about Santa Claus as a fun story, kids can still enjoy Santa while understanding that he's a fictional character, and that different people have different interpretations of the character. That way, everyone can depict Santa however they like without stepping on anyone else's toes.
3.) Jesus was NOT a historical figure, as Megyn Kelly claims. We don't know for sure whether or not Jesus actually existed. The most damning evidence against him having existed is the fact that there are no writings about Jesus from the time he supposedly walked the earth. All of the writings about Jesus are from after he apparently died, and, according to the Christian story, resurrected and went back to Heaven. It seems odd that none of Jesus' followers, who believed they were hanging out with a living god, and who supposedly witnessed this living god perform miracles, thought that any of that was worth writing down during the time that it was happening. Also damning is the fact that there is no Book of Jesus in the Bible. It seems odd that the founder of Christianity had nothing to say about his own religion.
YOU: If it's racist to want Santa to be white, it's also racist to want him to not be white. ME: ummm, its more about FACTS and how those lilttle details can be over looked. St Nicholcas, whom SINTER CLAUS and SANTA CLAUS is based, IS FROM TURKEY and most definitely not white. Same with Jesus! If there was a man, his name was not Jesus because the letter "J" did not exist, HOWEVER, if he did exist, HE WOULD NOT BE WHITE EITHER. That region of the planet have BROWN PEOPLE and would not have white skin or blues unless mutated!
it's not about wanting a White Santa or not, it's about exposing Santa as a real historical figure to explain why Santa should be white...
pc blob look back into the 1800s and you have an incredibly large amount of charities in America. Different charities in hundreds of different towns for the poor. Usually created by the citizens and not some business. Nowadays, we don't do that because we feel that our money is being taken from us anyways and that they can get it from the government... which they most certainly aren't. Let us keep our money then not only would there be less people NEEDING charity but more people giving charity.
hahahahaha, he is not IN FACT saying that Santa Clause is brown or white or that he should be brown or white (as the stupid fox news actors guarantee is or was white) he's implying that santa clause or Jesus COULD BE white. You will never be able to confirm that eather way.
Ppl dont want it to not be white, ppl that says he is not white know he is not white, they are describing facts not wishes
Jesus and Santa are also imaginary. :)
Putting Jesus in the same category as Santa is naive to say the least. There are actual historical evidence of Jesus being a living human, but not for Santa Clause. Not only that, everyone knows Santa isn't real, except for the children who are told he is. Jesus' apostles were all real people who knew him for many years, and ate with him for many days after his death. It is possible for someone to die holding onto a lie they know is false, but for a whole group to do so when the majority of people are against them, never happens.
Alex Bailey Parables of Jesus and folklore of Santa both based on real men. But the image portrayed is imaginary, how is Jesus any different from Santa?
Alex Bailey I can believe(!) that Jesus was a real historical human being. Not the son of god, but a man, like a rock star of his age.
Fart Vader It's possible that there was a historical Jesus. But if there was, he would be a con man a la Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard.
Alex Bailey
You talk about jesus as if he was real .No one has the slightest physical evidence to support a historical Jesus; no artefacts, dwelling, works of carpentry, or self-written manuscripts. All claims about Jesus derive from writings of other people. There occurs no contemporary Roman record that shows Pontius Pilate executing a man named Jesus. Devastating to historians, there occurs not a single contemporary writing that mentions Jesus. All documents about Jesus came well after the life of the alleged Jesus from either: unknown authors, people who had never met an earthly Jesus, or from fraudulent, mythical or allegorical writings. All sources about Jesus derive from hearsay accounts. Hearsay means information derived from other people rather than on a witness' own knowledge. Courts of law do not generally allow hearsay as testimony, and nor does honest modern scholarship. Hearsay does not provide good evidence, and therefore, we should dismiss it. Please don’t let fear of ridicule hold you back from showing your evidence for his existence !!!
solomon 1-5 in the bible tells what the people of the area are:
I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.
Christians white washed histrory.
Its one of the many way too specific details not to be based on a real person, as an atheist i would put money on someone one day will find a sphinx in or around jerusalem. One thing i have learned, romans tended to be dark skinned but the rulers tended to be white. , arabs were much darker skin, and greeks/caananites mixture olive etc.
One great thing about being atheist we demand evidence and we understand the evidence and we dont try to foist belief onto it. The evidence is clear, most of the leaders were north african in origin, Egypt was certainly north african and as the songs etc go, so were most of the kings of the time, and we have an abundance of statues to show this.
Exactly! I mean do they even have the common sense to realize that people from Jerusalem are definitely not white and that's just based on geography. I swear some people just don't think...
Simmons From Wales Modern Christianity borrowed from many other ancient religions. Slaves had their own religions before being brought to America and African Americans were forced to adapt because they were punished for practicing their own. The modern interpretations of the Bible definitely favors whites and it's full of historical inaccuracies. On top of that, you have people misinterpreting scripture and cherry picking what they want to follow and it's turned the whole religion into BS.
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actually you'd find an ankh; but not an Egyptian one. An assyrian one, as the ankh was a symbol popular in much of the know world. For an atheist: you don't seem to include a lot of Facts in you comments. Your Opinion, which is clearly unfounded and biased, is meaningless.
Jesus is Not White blond hair and blue eyes. He was a middle eastern , not from Europe
Michael Jackson was white too
Well Jesus was Jewish, but as for the Santa thing . . . Santa is a white fictional character invented in a country where everyone was white. There's no getting around that.
Just like Fat Albert is a black fictional character. Should children who are white be offended that Fat Albert is black ? Should people be told that "Well Fat Albert can be any color you say he is"? No - he's black, and he was invented by a black guy.
st. nicholas, the real santa claus, was actually a moor...
jesus must have been the only white guy in the middle east.
No wonder they stuck 'im on a cross.
*****
That area was under Roman power those days
***** today we have planes and can travel how ever we like, they couldn't back in those days. and no, white people were never the "original population" there..
***** "is a fact" they weren't. By Jesus' time they were genetically identical to Semitic peoples living in the middle east today. Nor where they ever "white" even ancient Egyptian and Sumerian texts, thousands of years before Christ's birth, describe the people of the region as darker skinned. What's *your* source, genius?
someonegetsteve
not exactly identical, but close. Arabs originate from southern part of Arabian Peninsula, and then they came all over middle east and north africa and mixed with everybody ( kill men, rape women ) , southern part of that peninsula was mostly black, so they all mixed together. So it is most likely that people over there were a bit lighter then now, but of course not blond hair/blue eyes.
I’m not Christian and I don’t know anything about Christianity but..
Wasn’t jesus born in the Middle East?
Aren’t middle easterns black and brown?? 🤷🏻♂️
Can we, native Dutch-speaking people, take a moment to appreciate how accurate Cenk's pronunciation of 'Sinterklaas' is?
It was great! I was actually surprised.
Jesus is for adult children
Santa is for young children.
lol
Santa is imaginary currently , but Christ Yeshua (Jesus) was sent by Yahweh in Israel and so He was not as white as any European
Santa Claus in the USA originated from a Coca-Cola marketing campaign.
hhaha You're an idiot
Kyle M
Why am I an idiot? It's fact you fuckin nincompoop. Look it up.
haha " Look it up" learn yo shit
your corrupt government wishes
***** Wrong. Coca-Cola got their idea from drawings done by Clement Clark Moore in "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (1822). His character had a scarlet robe and white beard and came from a cross between a local Dutch handyman he knew while taking a shopping trip on a sleigh and Saint Nicholas, who was actually just a religion figure. Coca-Cola then hired an illustrator named Haddon Sundblom (Swedish-American) in the early 1930's who created a series of drawings and was used as a marketing campaign.
In winter I'm white, by the end of summer I'm very brown.
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Arabs and Jews are not "white" to begin with. Even less 2000 years ago when there was less cross breeding. (And I don't mean that in a bad way). Just saying, 2000 years ago their pigment was even darker then they are now.
slw154 so what? that was random.
Cole444Train Actually the distinction between black/yellow/white is arbitrary. My argument is that we are actually different shades. I used to believe in "race" but now realise it was made up by Colonial Americans to justify discrimination. Like the UK's Class or India's Caste.
slw154 I wouldn't call them "retards" just misinformed. Fox is owned by a man that was born in the same town as me. Self-Centred I would call them. Similar to what we all usually grow out of by the time we hit mid twenties to mid thirties
Santa is just as real as Jesus.
I wish when children find out that santa isn't real they also find out about their religion being untrue too
bleach4711 No he wasn't. The are no non-bible sources for his existence. He is a fairy-tale figure exactly like Santa. Btw., responsible for something called "the dark ages" are his fanboys.
exterminate3000 How about Muhammad, was he a fairy-tale?
ma Wig Who's that? Never heard of him.
Aoife Mc Fall it should be a package
The time-period in question is not only well after the Indoeuropean ('IE', hereafter) migrations, but before the Arab conquests. Before the IE migrations, the near East was populated by a group we call 'Neolithic Farmers' ('NE", hereafter) (relevant genetic details of both IE and NF are below). As a result, the genetic composition of the near East during this time would have been composed, primarily, of NE, but with substantial contribution from IE as well. While NE left the steppe before light eyes and hair, and lactose-tolerance had become prevalent in the source population, most or all of the other traits we associate with the European (or, lol, 'white'), phenotype were already present, so the NF populations would have basically looked like modern Europeans, but with very low rates of light hair and eyes (to see what they looked like, we can just take a look at modern Sardinians, although modern Sardinians may actually look slightly less-"white", as a result of tiny amounts of genetic contribution resulting from the Arab occupation of the island in the middle-ages). However, by the time of Christ, IE had expanded significantly in the area through a variety of migrations, with the entire region having been controlled for most of the previous half-millennium, by the Persians, Greeks, or Romans, all of which are IE and would have looked very similar to modern Europeans. Hence, Christ would have likely appeared even more "white" than NF did. In other words, the most likely scenario is that modern people would unquestionably identify Christ as "white", unless he looked significantly different from the people who lived around him or who had lived in the region as far back as we have genetic evidence to determine. Further explanation of why this is the case is below¹:
In the late bronze age / early iron age, IE migrated out of the steppe and into Europe, the near-East, Persia, the Tarim Basin, and India, but it is also well after the IE conquests of the near East-the first unquestionably Aryan group to control the entire region would have been the Medes and Achaemenid, with the Medes coming first, but both groups moving into the region together and sharing an IE language and culture). Before that, the Hittites and Greeks, both IE groups, had interacted with, populated, or controlled parts of the near East as well, and even before that, there is evidence of a kind of IE aristocracy controlling many of the post-Sumerian empires and as far back as the beginning of dynastic Egypt (in fact, the two seem to correlate in the case of Egypt).
However, even if that were not the case, the peoples who populated the region before the IE migrations were NF, which were part of the same group that IE came from, but left earlier (before admixture from Eastern Hunter-Gatherer (EHG) gave them higher rates of light hair, admixture from Western Hutner-Gatherer (WHG) gave them light eyes, or before they evolved lactose-tolerance, but after the evolution of 𝙎𝙇𝘾𝟮𝟰𝘼𝟱, which is the primary gene responsible for European skin color (see below), with NF being the first people to bring this gene into Western Europe, though it isn't far-fetched to think that genes with similar effects may have existed in WHG, considering the selection pressure towards genes which produce lighter skin all over higher latitudes). Nonetheless, the modern population to which ancient Egyptians and Mesopotamians are most similar is Sardinia², who cluster with modern Europeans, and not with people who currently live in the near East. It is also worth noting that IE, NF, WHG, and EHG, all came from the same source group on the Pontic-Caspian steppe, with WHG leaving much earlier and moving into Western Europe, only to be later out-populated by NF, who were subsequently displaced and interbred with IE (at least NF females did, the males didn't make it for the most part, judging by the overwhelming preponderance of R-haplogroups almost everywhere IE went), with IE deriving largely from EHG, and the combination of these groups, mostly IE and NF, which is primarily due to the relative population sizes, forms the modern European's genome.
𝒊. 𝙎𝙇𝘾𝟮𝟰𝘼𝟱: 𝘕𝘍 residing in the near-East and much of N. Africa had the gene (𝘚𝘓𝘊𝟤𝟦𝘈𝟧) primarily responsible for light skin in modern Europeans, and, in fact, modern genetic analysis suggests that it was these 𝘕𝘍 who first brought the gene into Europe, or, at least, Western Europe. The 𝘐𝘌, who left the Pontic steppe much later, also had this same gene-thus, we can infer that 𝘕𝘍 and 𝘐𝘌, prior to 𝘕𝘍 emigrating from the Pontic steppe, were the same group of people (or, at least, that 𝘕𝘍 has substantial ancestry from this group). While 𝘚𝘓𝘊𝟦𝟧𝘈𝟤, which may be related to modern European skin-tone, was likely not present in 𝘕𝘍, 𝘚𝘓𝘊𝟦𝟧𝘈𝟤 isn't ubiquitous in modern Europeans. So, while there may have been a tendency for 𝘐𝘌 to have slightly lighter skin tone (or perhaps slightly ruddier) than 𝘕𝘍 on average, the reliability of its use as a proxy was probably fairly low, with 𝘕𝘍's skin tone being extremely similar to the skin tone being sexually selected for in 𝘐𝘌 populations, and because the prevalence of 𝘐𝘌 y-DNA haplogroups in Europe far exceeds 𝘐𝘌's mDNA prevalence, and 𝘐𝘌's, still substantial, autosomal contribution in modern Europeans, we can infer that selection pressures, natural or sexual, in Europe, did not preclude 𝘕𝘍's survival in what was likely an 𝘐𝘌-dominated culture. Other traits, such as light eyes and hair³, while not universal in 𝘐𝘌, and possibly still less-prevalent than their dark counterparts, would have likely been more distinguishing.
𝒊𝒊. 𝘼𝙐𝙏𝙊𝙎𝙊𝙈𝘼𝙇 𝘾𝙇𝙐𝙎𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙄𝙉𝙂: Modern autosomal analysis shows 𝘕𝘍 as being nearly identical with the modern Sardinian population and clustering on the same line with other European groups, parallel to, and clearly separated from, the line on which modern near-Eastern populations cluster (this is likely the result of admixture from another component found in modern near-Eastern populations, which was introduced with the Arab invasions, and modern sub-populations in the near-East, e.g., Lebanese Christians, which cluster must more closely with modern Europeans than the Lebanese Mohammedans, also have skin-tones which are more similar to modern Europeans).
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¹ To be fair, I should also note that much of the information on which I rely either didn't exist or wasn't available at the time this video was posted.
² For another very interesting group that likely reflects the early appearance and genetic makeup of people in the region (likely North Africa in this case, though they would have been from the same or similar stock), look up the Guanches , who were the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands. Unfortunately, after the Spanish discovery and conquest, many of the Guanches died, and the modern population reflects substantial admixture from mainland Europe and other regions, because, unlike Sardinia, the Guanches had only very primitive technology and a relatively small starting population when they came into contact with the Spanish.
³ Blonde hair, having arisen in the eastern hunter-gather populations, which were likely ancestral to 𝘐𝘌, and, I believe, which we've identified in ancient 𝘐𝘌 DNA, was present, but I'm not sure when red hair arose and whether it would have possibly been present in both 𝘐𝘌 and 𝘕𝘍.
Well, Santa Clause the character *IS* white. St. Nicholas was Mediterranean. I mean like, just because Santa Clause is based off of someone doesn't mean that he has to be exactly the same. Also, he's a character who is definitely open to interpretation-- so what harm is it to make him black?
As for Jesus being white; No. No, no, no. Firstly, there's no proof he even existed. Secondly, if he did exist, he would've been pretty brown.
Hey MEGYN! Your name is supposed to be spelled, 'Meghan' or 'Megan.' For all you kids reading my comment, the way Ms. Kelly spells her name is just ridiculous. Makes me laugh.
That's absurd, there's no objectively correct or incorrect way of spelling a name, there's only traditional and unconventional. I could be Ryk Dhaivyd if I wanted, even if I were the first person to spell it that way it wouldn't be wrong.
Some people seem to forget that we make these things up - we only have correct and incorrect spellings for regular words to simplify the matter, it's not like the words exist in some absolute form.
***** Turn off the auto-correct! It's not hard to spell properly using a keyboard.
***** Frosty?
It's like OBGYN.
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Can't you just do an 'add to dictionary' somehow?
"This just in: Santa is white. Don't worry white kids at home. Santa cares more about you than non-white kids, so let me reassure you". -Megyn Kelley
Do kids even watch Faux News? Do kids even watch any kind of news in general?
Does TYT count? Because I've been watching them since I was in middle school. But I definitely don't watch Fox it makes me want to vomit haha.
I hope no 'kids are watching'
LOL Any kid that doesn't watch fox news gains iq points.
Stingerbillion
LOL Exactly.
Santa is a story about a big guy who gives presents, HOW IN DA FUQ IS THAT RACIST
Why everything is White lol ???
Santa is not black or white. Hes japanese. Because Santa is a ninja. Only ninja could get into your home, not wake you up, plant something in the house with out breaking anything or making any noise. Merīkurisumasu Ninjas! (merry Christmas Ninjas!)
dude what u said is so awsome lol.
This can go both ways. Some black children COULD be offended that they don't have a black santa. But at the same time she was saying that toward white children growing up believing santa is white. This would put white children in the same position. So really the argument is nonsense either way.
kids do not care about the color. kids mainly care about the gifts
The author of the article she was talking about cared and it made her uncomfortable growing up.
Libertarian Eric
It may have made her uncomfortable, but it is not like the Government made up Santa. Santa was created by a Cartoonist, and the cartoonist made Santa white. Im sure the Cartoonist did not know that Santa clause was gonna become an Icon for christmas for the rest of time.... My point is that Santa is just a cartoon, You can't go around changing everything on this world to make everybody comfortable... If him being white really makes her that uncomfortable, then most likely she is just a racist. Because I dont even look at skin color. I almost feel stupid debating about the color of a cartoon characters skin... Weird world we live in, with weird priorities... People starving around the world, dying of diseases and we got so much freetime to debate if santa was white or black or what the freak ever..... sigh
I couldn't agree more.
Wildy rs I agree with your overall sentiment, but Santa Claus was not created by a cartoonist. Santa Clause comes from old norse and germanic folklore.
People think Jesus looked European because that's how the middle age artists depicted him. they wanted him to look like their rulers. so you all were scammed .... AGAIN.