Santa Claus may be coming to town to millions of children around the world. But kids here in the United States need not look further than 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. for a Santa-esque figure, at least according to MSNBC’s Touré.
The MSNBC host took a stab at his own tongue-in-cheek Santa remarks during Monday’s “The Cycle,” addressing a comment made by Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, who said last week Santa was white. Playing a string of clips proving that St. Nick could be other races, Touré went on to claim there was already a “generous, benevolent black man” in children’s lives, and his name is President Barack Obama.
“You do know, there is already a generous, benevolent black man in your children’s lives who lives in a place that some people think is magical, who has given something to each and every American, whether they have been naughty or nice,” Touré said. “You know who I’m talking about.”
The MSNBC host then played a clip from a parody video featuring an Obama impersonator, one that details the benefits of Obamacare.
After igniting a firestorm of criticism for her “white Santa” comments, Kelly went on to say that the media’s reactions prove that there is a “knee-jerk instinct” to race-bait. But Touré wouldn’t let Kelly’s comments go, saying Santa is black because “he just is.”
“But the insistence that he’s not black and can’t be black strikes me as an attempt to perpetuate white supremacy and to posit that whiteness is somehow normal and central while blackness is other or different,” Touré continued.
Check out Touré’s comments below.
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