Black Santa: Song about seasonal stereotypes has me walking in a one-hit wonderland
Last year, I was walking in a one-hit wonderland. This original song of mine, featuring Michael C., was released on the internet last Christmas, and quickly climbed the mp3 top 30 charts at mp3000.org to finally sit at #21.
The song consists of a story involving a dialogue between a Caucasian Personel Manager of a department store, and an African-American who wishes to apply for a job as Santa Claus. The song is all about subtle, yet pervasive cultural stereotypes and prejudice surrounding the Christmas season. Fellow European Americans and other non-Blacks, would you feel it you took your child to see Santa, he it turned out that he was black?
