‘Black Santa’ Writer Responds to Megyn Kelly: Now She’s Playing Victim

Slate Writer Who Questioned ‘White Santa’ on Megyn Kelly’s Response: She ‘Played the Victim’ (Mediaite)

Slate blogger Aisha Harris appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources Sunday morning to discuss the Megyn Kelly/Black Santa dustup that all began with Harris’ original article on the subject.

“It kind of reinforced my point, actually,” Harris said of Kelly’s original comment that Santa just “is” white (Jesus, too). “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.”

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.