A Real Christmas Story by The Family Woman
It is Christmas Day 2016, and today is a time when I get sort of a kick out of watching The Family Man, starring Don Cheadle, Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni. Within it are white people’s stories about “magic negroes” (Christmas elves this time) who pop...
Did You Know In Holland Saint Nicholas Has a Slave Called Black Pete!
Who on earth is Black Pete? Many traditions are rooted in a not so nice past but one tradition of the holidays in Holland is so clearly racist that it’s a wonder that it’s allowed to be celebrated on such a wide scale. Every year Saint Nicholas arrives to...
Just in Time for the Holiday Season
First it was the spooked out “ghost sheets with the pointy heads,” now it’s “brass bathing suits and tin pan foil hats with big goat-butting horns sticking out of them.”
