YOU Can Decide .. "Reserved" Rights Infringed?
I woke up to a replay of SNL's 14Dec "Riff" on Black Santa. I bolted up at the lines about Santa "stealing" credit for my work. I thought "I wrote that"! Sure enough, on December 9, 2012, THE OWL published (over: "All Rights Reserved: Williams LLC") A Christmas Story (Santa as "Educator"??).
After some digging, I found that a fast-moving story in the Media, involving Slate, FOX, MSNBC, and SNL was "going viral" over, what obviously, to me, sprang from my Blog. Google: willigl, and it will pop up THE OWL (willigl.blogspot.com). Search the time line on the right of the articles and click on 2012, December, and the blog will appear as the December 9, 2012 publication.
One year and one day after I published, Slate published its article by Aisha Harris.
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/holidays/2013/12/santa_claus_an_old_white_man_not_anymore_meet_santa_the_penguin_a_new_christmas.html
That article led to FOX folks reactions that involved throwing racist remarks about Santa and Jesus to their white supremacist base. The story, as they say, now has "legs"; and is spreading rapidly.
I encourage all to read the December 9, 2012 story, and decide if "writers" in the media are playing fast and loose with "protected" content.
A footnote; a few years before I appeared as a black Santa, I asked a young Jewish colleague at the NSA if he held Christmas or Jewish Holidays for his young children. He replied: I do all of the versions, I don't want my kids to miss anything. My sentiments exactly, resentments, and all!
Stay Vigilant! Merry (purloined?) Christmas!
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