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To: Junkyardawg who wrote (128)	11/27/2007 3:46:15 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 9626

I enjoyed that story very much. Here's mine, also true. Things have changed a lot since this event. Great progress has been made, so the irony that I experienced then may not be relevant today. That's Not The Real Santa! We took our young family to the Christmas Party at the Job Corps Center near the Ranger Station where I worked. After the festivities, all the children were invited to sit on Santa's lap, one by one. My young son sat excitedly on Santa's lap, and whispered in his ear. Afterward, Adam said "I don't think that's the real Santa, Dad." I froze. The Santa was plainly a black man with a false white beard and traditional Santa costume. My employer's policy placed a great deal of emphasis on racial equality, and I certainly did not want to offend the man or any of the other black people at the party, some of whom were my friends. "Why don't you think that's the real Santa?" I asked, fearful that my son would blurt some response that, overheard, would result in some needless racial incident. "He can't be the real Santa because he's wearing old tennis shoes and Santa wears boots," he said. "You are exactly right," I said. All the way home I marveled at my son's innocence and my own assumption that Santa must have been a white man.