Yes, it is the day that kindly old Saint Nicholas fills the footware of good little girls and boys with treats [or his assistants beat the evil out of bad children, depending on the local customs – they didn’t just leave the sticks – in some places they use them.] Don’t forget the carrot if he rides a horse in your area.
He is the patron saint of Russian merchants and pawnbrokers (three gold balls are one of the symbols associated with him).
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And he looks suspiciously dusky, sorta like that Santa at the Mall of the Americas that has raised so much furor amongst white people who say “why does everything have to be about race?” shortly before they go all apeshit over a dusky-skinned Santa.
Clearly the ancient Byzantines who created the original paintings of St. Nicholas were secretly members of Black Lives Matter who had gone back in time to forever corrupt our Christmas traditions….
– Badtux the Snarky Penguin
Isn’t amazing how much ‘fading’ has taken place on the skin tones of so many famous people, Michael Jackson not included.
The guy was a Turk, not a Finn.