Yeah, my pre political correctness education taught me it was a celebration of harmony between the natives, and the pilgrims.
Now may be a good time for genocide, as in let's mercy kill political correctness, and put it out of it's misery...lol.
Posted on 11/25/2008 5:06:35 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Protesters descended Tuesday on Condit Elementary School in Claremont, tersely arguing over the construction-paper pilgrim and Native American costumes worn by kindergartners at a decades-old Thanksgiving tradition. Police were called to the school when tensions rose.
Officers also were monitoring Claremont Unified Supt. David Cash's home after he received hate mail and told police that he feared for his safety.
"It's been wild," said one woman who worked at the school. She declined to give her name because she wasn't authorized to speak on behalf of the school.
Cash and Condit Principal Tim Northrop did not return phone calls or e-mails seeking comment.
For four decades, children at Condit and Mountain View elementary schools have taken annual turns dressing up and visiting each other to share a Thanksgiving feast. Controversy erupted after district officials last week decided to eliminate the Native American and pilgrim costumes from this year's event after some parents complained that they were demeaning and stereotypical. Other parents were infuriated by the district's modifications of the event, saying that administrators had bowed to political correctness.
On Tuesday morning, some parents dressed their children in the hand-made headdresses, bonnets and fringed vests, and school officials did not force the students to remove them. Still, some parents vowed to keep their children home from school Wednesday, potentially costing the district state attendance funds.
Nearly two dozen protesters stationed themselves in front of the school, evenly split between costume supporters and opponents. The supporters set up a table with refreshments in front of the school sign, and several wore construction-paper headdresses. Opponents stood about 40 feet away, carrying signs that said, "Don't Celebrate Genocide."
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They might have been afraid one of the girls would go missing after leaving Condit...
How about we celebrate the introduction of the wheel to a stone age culture?
Does everything in this world have to be politically correct? Is there any Thanksgiving tradition or celebration that passes muster with the politically correct crowd?
what about those of us who grew up in previous generations and did this kind of thing in school to observe Thanksgiving. Were we scarred for life? Do we need to go to a re-education camp now?
Finally, are any of the parents who protested that we’re celebrating genocide, etc, -— are any of them of European descent? If so, are they planning to exit America to go back to wherever their ancestors came from? If not, why not, if they really believe that this country developed from such evil beginnings? Why would they stay here?
What the hell has Thanksgiving got to do with genocide???
No!!!! That got us started down the road to global warming which, of course, is America's fault too.
I thought the whole point of Thanksgiving was to show the cooperation of Indians and Pilgrims.
Besides, a Turkey with the colored feathers is all that I could draw in elementary school.
Yeah, my pre political correctness education taught me it was a celebration of harmony between the natives, and the pilgrims.
Now may be a good time for genocide, as in let's mercy kill political correctness, and put it out of it's misery...lol.
Darn us and our evil technology...
Not that any of it’s my fault, my ancestors are Russian. Y’all Anglo-Saxons with your fancy muskets and funny hats were the ones running around popping the natives left and right. That’s why there aren’t any left.
i believe Kwanza, Earth Day and Martin Luther King day all pass muster with the PC crowd.
Insanity abounds!
Oh God...NOOOOOOOO..
do I have to hear about f...g Kwanza again???Yeesh, talk about the most stupid NON holiday created by a criminal..
As the current election has so perfectly demonstrated, there is a significant percentage of Americans who have degenerated to the level of intellectually dead, morally sick f**ks.
Try protesting that in front of an elementary school you will be branded a criminal racist by the news media.
We’re killing all the turkeys??
Those poor kids, what an awful time to be growing up.
Believe it or not, November 4--the anniversary of Obama's election--has also been proposed as a national holiday.
LOL Can we get any points because the Chinese come up with the gunpowder we used in the muskets?? You know a diversity bonus?
A National Day of Mourning would be more appropriate for Nov.4.
Not this carp again.
Ok let me school the fools.. Parents of whatever read these words
North American history 101... the abridged version.
About a jillion years ago there was an ice bridge between China and Alaska, many folk crossed, because it was more dangerous to stay where they were. da de da..
Then the loosly knit tribes fought over rescourses, this took many years till the established tribes had thier lands basically fought out. They always fought with each other though. War was very much the way of life for these noble nomads, They fought thier way into existance.
FF a few hundred years later.
Then an explorer guy, motivated by the mapmaker Amerigo Vespuci(sic?) thought that the world was as round as the sun and moon, and he convinced a Spanish Queen to give him an expidition in quest for quicker rescourses. And although Chris Columbus did not find a trade route to India, he mistakingly called the inhabitants he did find Indians.
Things were peachy for a short while, the Native americans were impressed by what the whites knew of the world, but were very skeptical of thier motives. After all we are talking about peoples seperated by a lot of stuff, geographical, geopolitical, social, etc.
And though things were not so smooth, The Natives showed a spark of kindness when the new commers were at a low. Sometime after Jamestown’s founding and before lots of other stuff happened, well in a word, war.
War with the Brtish
War with the Natives, (Hardly Non stop)
War with the French
War with the Spanish
War with , well everybody, not just once, but twice.
Yes War, not that anyone is at fault, War seems to part of the human condition, Many forget that part, heck these emerging American folk actually declared war thier own king, The new folk in the Americas did win, but, strife and injustice was still in the air, It took a very bold move from a guy the US currency has on the penny and on it’s 5ver, Honest Abe was a great man, no doubt. He would have done anything to prevent what would and did happen. But in the end it did serve us well, for the new nation finally caught up with the rest of the world, It was more than a hundred years before a leader emerged that would unite folk and bring to fruition and a modicom of closure about what had happened in this nations past, sure he was villified, and like many great leaders, assasinated.
So what does that nation have now, A nation based upon individual freedom, given not from a person or government, by by devine right. Equal protection under the law. and lots of other stuff, like schools, and a military unparalled in the world. That emerging nation surpassed every other nation in almost every way, and it’s only lately, that some within that nation must feel guilty, about war, slavery, displacement, crime, poverty, and all manner of social ills. Things, that this emerging nation did not invent, export, or import.
If anything WE (yes I am an American)stood for what was right, because WE are decent folk, WE deserve our Thanks Giving, We earned it, WE own it.
So this turkey day be thankfull and hopefull..
That’s what school, from kindergarten through college, does to many.
PC killjoys. Let elementary school kids have fun dressing up as Indians and Pilgrims and having Thanksgiving together. They can learn about the unedifying events in our history in middle or high school.
Happy THANKSGIVING, mommies and daddies!
Liberals need a villain! They are sick, according to this doctor.
"When the modern liberal mind whines about imaginary victims, rages against imaginary villains and seeks above all else to run the lives of persons competent to run their own lives, the neurosis of the liberal mind becomes painfully obvious." --Dr. Lyle Rossiter
Kwanzaa...from the Swahili for “let’s see if we can get black folks to overspend as much over the holidays as the white folks do”.
ROFLMAO!!!!!
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