An Oregon family was shocked to get that an inflatable black Santa Claus on their front lawn had been slashed by vandals just 24 hours after they put it on display.
Fritz and Belinda Richard, who are African-American, have lived in Bethany, Ore., for 21 years. This year, they decided to feature an inflatable black Santa Claus to their holiday decorations. On Wednesday, Fritz Richard installed the 8-foot-tall inflatable in their yard , only to ascertain it slashed multiple times 24 hours later.
Richard told Beaverton, Ore., KOIN 6 News that he awakened on Thursday and discovered the slashed Santa deflated on their front lawn.
“Looks like someone had a drag with our black Santa,” he wrote on Facebook. “I found him this morning, someone took a knife to him. Trump is basically changing this country! is that this how you create America ‘great again’, with hate crimes?”
“There [are] tons of neighbors who have Christmas decorations, Caucasian Santas, and zip that we all know of went on to them,” he told the the Oregonian.
In a move of solidarity with the Richard family, several of their neighbors have said they too will purchase a black Santa, and can put the Santa up in their yards. The Richards also decide to purchase a replacement Santa.
“It’s precisely the opposite result i feel they were trying to find ,” Richard said of the people that slashed the Santa. “There are going to be hopefully tons of black Santas around this neighborhood.”
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