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Welcome to CP Time, the only show that's for the culture. Today, we discuss black people and the joyful, festive holiday of Christmas. So let's start with slavery, because remember, black people weren't celebrating Christmas before that. None of us were on the boat ride over here going, fa la la la la, the holidays. But once they were in America, many slaves begin to see Christmas for the blessing that it was a chance to escape while the owners will away for the holidays.

The great abolitionist Harriet Tubman even used Christmas to free her three brothers, which may sound good to you, but if I let my sister free me around Christmas, I'd never hear the end of it. Every year she'd be like, Oh, thank you so much for the slippers. This almost as good as the gift I got you last year, not shackles. And I'm like, Shut up, Bernice, you ruined the holidays.

Of course, music is an important part of Christmas and black people have been covering and improving the classics for years, like Let It Snow by Boyz to Men or do you hear what I hear by me? Here's a sample.

Do you hear what I hear?

Sounds like oppression, but some holiday music is tainted with a history of racism, like the classic Jingle Bells, which at first just seems like an innocent song about reckless driving. But back in eighteen fifty seven, its first public performance was part of a minstrel show sung by a bunch of white dudes in blackface. It's a terrible legacy and that's why every time I see a one horse open sleigh, I keep that shit for justice.

But it is also important to recall the true reason we celebrate Christmas.

Santa's breakthrough for black Santas was in nineteen forty three when one of Harlem's biggest department stores hired the country's first black Santa Claus, which surely was a distraction for customers who didn't know what was going on.

I'm sure they was all like, who's our next Maria Jackson talking to my child after that, black Santas took a seven year ill until two years ago when Larry Jefferson became the first black Santa at the White House Mall of America.

A victory for our people, mostly because Larry used his employee discount to get all the black people he knew 20 percent off.

A hero, indeed.

But Kris Kringle would be nothing without the gifts. He brings the toys without the toys. Santa is just a fat bastard that broke in your house. And for decades, manufacturers didn't even consider making toys for black children. And when they finally did, some of them would just paint white dolls black like this Willy doll. Look at that. Looks like Willie got thrown into a bonfire. But the great thing about kids is they'll like whatever you give them because children are not very intelligent.

Like, my favorite toy when I was a youngster was Mr. Chop Chop or I play with Mr. Chocolate Shop for hours. I make them available, I make him talk to me, lose all his teeth to be forty five years to realize this chop chop is a staple. A good friend, Cornel West, told me that that's all the time we have for today. I'm with Junior.

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