"News One Now" host Roland Martin (AP Photo)

(CNSNews.com) – “News One Now” host Roland Martin said Friday on the “Tom Joyner Morning Show” that Fox News’ Megyn Kelly’s remark that Santa Claus and Jesus are white reinforced to black and Hispanic kids that they live in a “white world,”  and they don’t matter.

“Doesn't it just reinforce though to your point growing up as a child, you seeing these images, it reinforces where for black kids and Hispanic kids, it's, ‘Look, accept that this is a white, white world and you don't matter,’” Martin asked Slate writer Aisha Harris, author of the article, “Santa Should Not Be a White Man Anymore.”

Kelly did a segment about Harris’ Slate article, which challenged the notion of Santa being white. Harris wrote about growing up with images of a black Santa on Christmas decorations at home while the public celebrated a white Santa.

“I propose that America abandon Santa-as-fat-old-white-man and create a new symbol of Christmas cheer. From here on out, Santa Claus should be a penguin. That’s right: a penguin,” Harris wrote. “Why, you ask? For one thing, making Santa Claus an animal rather than an old white male could spare millions of nonwhite kids the insecurity and shame that I remember from childhood.”

Kelly criticized the article, saying, “Just because it makes you feel uncomfortable doesn’t mean it has to change.”

“And by the way, for all you kids watching at home. Santa just is white, but this person is just arguing that maybe we should also have a black Santa, but Santa is what he is,” Kelly said.

“I mean Jesus was a white man too – he was a historical figure – I mean that’s a verifiable fact as is Santa. I just want the kids watching to know that, but my point is how do you just revise it in the middle of the legacy of the story and change Santa from white to black?” Kelly asked.

Martin said Kelly’s comments reinforced the notion that we live in a “white world,” and even Jesus Christ is white. “Even though, if she actually read a Bible, she probably would miss that [hair] like wool and feet like bronze clay thing that’s in the Bible,” he said.

Martin suggested that radio host Tom Joyner should call on a 100 black Santas to go to Fox News in New York and sing the Christmas Carol to Kelly.

“You know it's something when a white woman defends a fictitious character when James Earl Jones - a brother – and he still couldn't play Darth Vader when he took his mask off,” Martin said.