Ebowed, I'm not saying that minorities shouldn't dress up as Santa. This is a free country and you should be free to dress up as whichever fictional character you want. I don't care. If I went to the mall tomorrow and it was full of black Santas, I wouldn't care.
What I do care about is someone tampering with a fictional character's backstory by, say, changing him into a penguin for a petty reason.
Is it that hard to create a new character instead of tampering with an existing one?
You must hate the New Testament, then.
Look, I don't know how it's supposed to be controversial that people are rewriting fictional backstories for characters. My parents didn't even say anything about Santa Claus, Christmas was a religious / family day. So maybe I'm missing something. Perhaps, if I had thought that Santa Claus was real for a time, I would be disappointed to hear that other people were giving their children a
slightly different version of Santa Claus, but even that scenario actually makes no sense either. So I'd give you the benefit of the doubt and say that you just have a weird thing for lame traditions, but as a brief look through your posting shows, you have a fixation on racial issues, especially "unfair" accusations of racism. A word to the wise: people who don't say racist things don't get constantly "unfairly" called racist.
Ultimately, though, if the reason for changing Santa's origins is petty, as you say, isn't it just as petty to care about the change?
