Santa doesn't have to be a white guy

WAIT! I know a lot of you are gonna say, "But Santa has always been canonically a white guy in a suit." However, I thought of something, like Superman, Batman, Spiderman, each of these characters has been dubbed those names even when they aren't white, right? 

Superman - Earth-23 has a black Superman who is Kalel as well (not Kal-El), who is the president of the US as well. He lives a completely different life on this Earth

Batman - The number of times the mantle of Batman has been shifted is nuts. Basically, every male Robin has been Batman at some point. At one point, Dick took up the role, and even a few people noticed it wasn't Bruce, literally based on his walk alone. I think it was Joker. 

Spiderman - Miles Morales is 1/2 black, 1/2 Latin. 

So when you think about Santa, the first iteration was "Nicholas of Myra." I can't find his real name. That's all history says. If you find his real name, post it below for me. Which, obviously, we know also as "St Nicholas."

The role itself doesn't have to mean the same person, but instead a different person to be Santa, which means in your own tale of Santa could be black, Indian, Scottish, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, and so on. You get the idea. 

The reason this just occurred to me is that I was watching a video on the Santa movies and series, and I never thought about the series explaining that there were multiple Santas. If I recall from the series correctly, they never really talked about it that way. Made me think TBH. 



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