05 Dec Black Family In Arkansas Receives Racist Letter After Putting Up Their Black Santa Claus Decorations

Santa Claus is a Black man.

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‘Tis the season to be a bigoted, cowardly, racist, joy thief. According to a report in TODAY, a Black Arkansas family was accosted by an angry, obtuse, anglo-saxon with their pointy, white hoods in a bunch.

33-year-old Chris Kennedy and his 31-year-old wife Iddy have been living in their North Little Rock, Arkansas home for three years. Let Iddy tell it, things have been relatively peaceful confederate flag-flying neighbor notwithstanding. However, last week, after the family had put up their Christmas decorations that featured a Black Santa Claus, that peace came to an aburpt halt. They received an anonymous letter chiding them for their melanated jolly fat man and used explicit racist language to suggest that they “go back where they came from”.

The letter read:

Please remove your negro Santa Claus yard decoration. You should not try to deceive children into believing that I am a negro. I am a caucasian (white man, to you) and have been for the past 600 years. Your being jealous of my race is no excuse for your dishonesty. Besides that, you are making yourself the laughing-stock of the neighborhood. Obviously, your values are not that of the Lakewood area and maybe you should move to a neighborhood out east with the rest of your racist kind.

Yours truly,

Santa Claus

Suffice to say, Chris and Iddy were pissed tf off.

“I opened it and the first thing that popped out at me was the word ‘negro,’” Kennedy, 33, told TODAY by email. “So I put the letter down, I then went and grabbed my phone to record what was going on. I was trying to keep myself from confronting the person I immediately suspected of sending it.”

…”After three years of having no problems from anyone with our decorations it happens this year,” he said. “We have been very active politically this year so we both feel that that might have played into this a little bit.”