it's curious how this manages to whitewash the reality that santa claus is not actually based on "st. nicholas" but is a merging of pagan mythology with colonialism. in the reformation era northern european legends, the "gifts" that "santa" brings are made by "elves" that happen to be black and under the colonial domination of the european nation that receives the gifts. the santa claus story, itself, is a rationalization of white supremacist ideology. it follows that santa is indeed as white as adolf hitler was.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdkGA_rgHRY

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/protesters-occupy-quebec-education-minister-s-office-1.2458566

this strikes me as an answer. it incorporates what everybody realized, and it doesn't collapse into new age idiocy. this is how entanglement works.
http://mitne.ws/IVunni

http://www.nature.com/news/not-all-species-deteriorate-with-age-1.14322

silliness. i'm willing to openly acknowledge that something existed _before_ the universe, but everything has a start and an end. the idea of an infinite universe isn't worth seriously contemplating.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rainbow-gravity-universe-beginning

https://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2013/12/07/harvesting-electricity-triboelectric-generators-capture-wasted-power
http://physics.aps.org/articles/v6/133

on the question of santa’s skin colour

jessica amber murray 
santa isn't just white - he's a white supremacist, too. we should be deconstructing the racism, not denying it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinterklaas#The_Netherlands:_Zwarte_Piet

dave
Sinterklaas isn't Santa, hes one of the European predecessors that the Santa figure drew from when it was created in America in the 19th century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ded_Moroz

Similiar to this guy, there is a number of European seasonal figures that Santa draws from

jessica amber murray 
i think it's more accurate to say that sinterklaas evolved into santa claus in the dutch colony of new amsterdam (now called new york). some other ideas may have found their way into the construction, but he's the core of what santa claus is in the sense that he's the root story that the other traditions get attached to.

it seems like it's the same basic process, though, in the sense that both the german and slavic legends are the result of being colonized by christians. in both cases, traditional gods are converted into mythical figures that uphold rather than challenge the authority of the church.

my jesus year is fast approaching. i've been thinking about it a lot, actually.

i can only make one promise: i will not stare at anybody like they need to be saved.

this is a balanced and informative talk by somebody that knows what they're talking about. it's a much more realistic analysis than is usually rubber-stamped for academic consumption and may consequently provided a slightly different perspective than you're used to hearing. but this is the right perspective and the one you should hear.