Smiles and laughs weren't hard to come by as several children at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall came to see a Santa that looked just like them.
George Smithers started playing Santa 30 years ago to spread joy to his own children. He decided to spread that jolly holiday feeling to families at malls across the country for the last five years."We've been there with white Santa already so why not explain to him how our culture works and how Black Santa is great to our community and great for us," said parent Akiana Henderson.
"These kids need to understand Black culture, Black Santa" said Johnson."It's not just white Santas. It's all cultures — that's big for me." He says there are less than a dozen other Black Santas that travel to shopping centers nationwide to give families of color the holiday experience their hearts desire.
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