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Originally Posted by cmac2012
That was a trip all right. The real St. Nicholas/Nikolaos was a Greek of the 4th century whose place of origin is part of present day Turkey. I suspect he was not all that white.
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Hoping that I won't be confused with the Megyn Kelly ilk, but Greek would be white. He was born in what is modern day Turkey, but he was Greek.
Icons of St Nicolas would support the assertion of Caucasian appearance as well. But in the end I don't think it really matters as the current media storm is over several racial comments which really have nothing do with the "color" of either historical character.