Aisha Harris appeared on CNN on Sunday morning to respond to the fallout after Fox News host Megyn Kelly, challenging an article by the Slate blogger, declared that Jesus and Santa Claus were white men.
On her Wednesday night show, Kelly addressed the article by Harris about a Black vs. a white Santa, saying,” Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change,” and adding, “Jesus was a white man, too.
“It kind of reinforced my point, actually,” Harris said Sunday of Kelly’s comments.“The fact that Kelly and some of the other guests on the show were insisting that Santa is white, just spoke to the reason why I wrote the piece: a lot of people out there automatically assume that Santa must be white, and it’s laughable that he should be anything else.”
CNN’s Reliable Sources Host Brian Stelter played Kelly’s response from Friday evening, in which the Fox News host mocked critics for blowing an offhand comment out of proportion.
“I felt that they were playing the victim there,” Harris said. “And the fact that they tried to deflect it, and say that they were making a joke out of it, just didn’t ring true to me. She said it very emphatically on the program Wednesday, and to me there was nothing joke-like about it.”
Harris also disputed Kelly’s claim that she would rather “sling the arrows from the privacy of [Slate’s] office” than appear on Fox News, arguing that their invitation to appear on Friday’s show had come at the very last moment.
“They didn’t reach out until just before the show was airing,” Harris said. “It felt like a last minute thing, almost like a slight.”
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