Saint Nicholas lived in the area of today's Turkey. Chances are rather high that he at least had a somewhat darker skin tone. Even worse, Santa Clause is a fictional figure. Purple skin would be equally fine than white one.

And the letter writer used COMIC SANS!!!

Let's get this straight a fictional character is the property of whoever owns that character. Santa Claus has no owner so Santa can be whatever you want Santa to be. For instance, in literature, James Bond has in part entered the public domain, therefore you can be creative and make the Bond you want. But I wouldn't suggest doing that with Disney characters.

If santa was real, and he was black, he'd be Morgan Freeman and no one can convince me otherwise.

"Everyone 'round here know that Jesus was white, spoke English and carried an assault rifle to protect himself from communists and foreigners."

Black Jesus/ Olive Jesus/ Brown Jesus( high probability) / or any other colour But NEVER WHITE. Jesus was most probably an Iraqi who followed Judaism

Wasn't it a brown-skinned guy who said "love your neighbor"?

The racist neighbor used comic sans so that's how you know he's a moron

Turns out so many people in his neighborhood ordered black Santas the stores ran short. Also when people wanted to donate to him he stated he would rather have the money got to Ronald McDonald home. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/12/03/black-santa-solidarity/

Oh man, just wait until racist neighbour finds out santa isn't real. Then hit them with the double whammy, Jesus was middle eastern (and you could say not real, but there's theories that a "Jesus" existed who was a healer in those times, though not the son of god of course)

people can be so rude and disrespectful . Love the decorations

"I am caucasian and have been for 600 years" Apparently they are over 600 years old.

Such a creep! Why do some people have to be such haters? Life's ups and downs are hard enough without having to deal with that garbage!! I think Black Santa is just fine!! Merry Christmas to you and your family!

Even if we go by the Santa that lives in the North Pole, he could very well have dark skin. How so? Snow reflects UV rays. Skiiers and other snow based sport people use protection to not get sunburns

if i liked those blow-up decorations to begin with i'd go find one of those black santa's just to support this man, but damn... i hate all those blow-up decorations

What a Jerk! I am sick and tired of people bitching and moaning about cultural appropriation.

I am so disgusted at this that I am now determined to go buy a book (or a few) with illustrations of black people for my white kids, because I'm annoyed that I didn't realise it before our bookcase was lacking! They are 2 and 4 and they are going to grow up learning to treat every human as a human. Respect is all you need. If you can do more, be kind. If you can do even more, give love. And if you can do even more than that, teach others to do the same.

Time to band together and get this family a number of really cool Xmas decorations. Make this a huge winter wonderland by next year!

Anyone who writes in Comic Sans is immediately discredited, without even needing to read their racist rants.

So white people and/or white fictional characters in movies, books and TV shows are not allowed to do "black face" anymore, with one fat, jolly, white exception. Got it. I think. This rampant neurotic and pedantic Political Correctness in the U.S is getting so confusing with all the illogic and hypocrisy involved. Someone needs to write a definite Political Correctness Rule Book ... U.S Edition.

As if the racism wasn't bad enough, they went and did it in f*****g comic sans.

The letter writer said Jesus lived 600 years ago? More like 2021 years ago and he most definitely had very dark skin! People are so small minded.. there actually is no such thing as 'race'... there's no actual race jean so it's all a construct of hate because one's different than another. When will we evolve beyond division and learn to work together for a peaceful and kind world.

Ok, first, Santa Claus is a fictional being and people can imagine him in any way they want. Second, the actual holy man he is based upon, Saint Nicolas of Myra was from - wait for it - f*cking Myra, which is in southern Turkey. He would definitely be considered a man of color if he lived today. I know it's not a very christian thing to do but I feel like punching white christians offended by the notion that religious figures could have been/were non-white in their stupid faces. Racist scum hiding behind religion. I'm catholic by the way.

I'm glad his neighbours responded with love and support--that letter is the opposite of Christmas (the season that conspires in joy), and certainly--the whole spirit of Christmas, which is kindness and love. Now some thoughts: 1) accusing Kennedy of racism because of a black Santa is some illogical, evil mental misgymnastics 2) Wasn't Santa from Turkey? Clearly--he is not Caucasian. 3) Does this neighbour-parading-as-evil Santa freak out over Chocolate Santas? Does he melt them? write them evil letters? 4) While the letter writer clearly has an empty soul--I hope he is visited by a Christmas miracle a la Grinch, and his heart grows two sizes too big and he learns to love.

wow... They even used comic sans