Can We Have a Black Santa For Christmas? Nope.

The stubbornness of whiteness in our traditions, fables, and history.

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The first day I worked at the social project in Peru, I shadowed a peppy, warm-hearted social worker in her sixties, who was my supervisor. She teared up talking about her husband who had recently died. I soon learned she loved to dance, drink Pisco sours, and make lewd jokes, and then cover her mouth laughing. I…