Why santa cant be black

Nicholas Center: St. Nick was Greek and lived about 1, years ago in what is now southern Turkey KOAT: Christopher Rougier wore a Santa hat and beard to a dress-up day at a New Mexico school A teacher told the teen he couldn't be Santa because Santa is white, the affiliate reports. The family of an African-American high school student in New Mexico says he's crushed after a teacher questioned why he was wearing Santa garb during a school holiday dress-up day last week, CNN affiliate KOAT reported.

Michael Rougier said the teacher called his wife to apologize, but that's not enough. Kim Vesely, the director of Rio Rancho Public Schools, released a statement to media about the incident. The teacher feels very badly about what occurred. He self-reported the incident to the principal and has apologized to the student and to the student's parent. Appropriate disciplinary action has been taken. Poor Mr. There were snowflakes to cut and Window wreaths to be hung, Christmas cards to be painted, And Christmas songs to be sung.

Can Santa be thin? Is Santa Clause always a him? Slater looked at twenty pairs of eyes, Twenty children of every shape and size. He ate a bit of cracker and finished his drink.

Frazer, Ms. Frazer, what can I do? The children asked these questions That now I ask of you:. Can Santa Claus be thin? All Streams. Detroit Stories. On this page you'll find all of our stories on the city of Detroit.

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Lester Graham. This year marks the th anniversary of the end of the Civil War. Why is this? There are a couple of reasonable answers to this question. The History and Legends of St. Nicholas, evolved over a period of almost seventeen centuries, and created a stereo-type of a seventy-ish, while male. For the first fourteen or fifteen centuries, there was rarely a mention of race or heritage.

Wherever St. Nicholas traveled, he was portrayed by someone locally, and thus mirrored the ethnicity of that community. When renaissance artists started painting images of the Saint, it was not in the period when he lived with early roman clothing, or his home, in Asia-Minor, which is now Turkey.

But rather, the artists painted him in the regal robes of a bishop and often in their own image or of the world they lived in. And these images, most often, established St. Nicholas as a white male. With each country, he visited, he brought the message of secret giving, and in return story tellers, and artists, added to his legend, mixing his story with those of other local and regional fantasy characters.

Figuratively, every country in Europe had a hand in making the Santa we know today. And when the early pilgrims and settlers arrived in the new world, they brought St.

Nicholas with them. And as the new citizens began settling, their St. Nicholas started his evolution into the current Santa Claus we know today.