But it may also be why Kelly felt so comfortable making what — to her, apparently — was an entirely innocuous comment, much as she saw her Santa remarks. It’s the kind of remark that comes from people who don’t see themselves as racist. They grew up in a world where these normal, regular, default things were — well, they were just the way things were. (“Santa just is white,” Kelly said in 2013, as if saying the sun rose in the east.) It is, at heart, the reaction of people who didn’t have to think much about sharing the world with people different from them.

Source: New York Times October 25, 2018 18:48 UTC