For the rest of us:
Some people just love to rain on any parade that has Americans enjoying themselves. If you must have that conversation, then do it far away from the Thanksgiving Season, such as in April or May. Then, I might take you more seriously, vs being someone who wants to stomp out every spark of fun.
President Obama destroyed the real meaning of Thanksgiving, which is to thank God for His blessing on us individually and as a nation.
Every presidential proclamation up until Obama specifically referenced God’s providence to our country. Obama deleted reference to God, and instead made it about giving thanks to first responders and others.
More and more, I now see that type of faulty narrative being given as the reason for Thanksgiving—thanking other people rather than giving thanks to our Creator.
I don’t care, I just like turkey.
“Keisha Worthey”
No need to even look.
Prior to 1863 states had their own Thanksgiving on different dates. Lincoln made it a national holiday on the last Thursday of November.
I’m old enough to remember when you could go a whole day without reading or hearing the word “narrative.”
What Worthey neglects to mention is they were killed by diseases which were unknown to science and medicine and any of the early explorers, fishermen and settlers at the time. The loaded question is asked in a hate America context of guilt attributed to the Pilgrims not as an unfortunate side effect of civilizations meeting. The teacher missed that message.
She should have compared the pilgrims to today’s Mexicans and muslims.
If these “educators” want to teach the correct history of Thanksgiving, they will teach how the American Indians helped the Pilgrims get started and the Pilgrims invited them to share because of the help...
If the “educators” want to teach about how the colonialists and American Indians lived their lives through time...
They will teach about the Indians who sided with the French during the French and Indian War and which Indians sided with the British...
They will teach about the Indians who sided with the Americans during our Revolution... They will teach about the Indians who sided with the British...
“Educators” if they are honest, will take the interactions of Colonialists and Indians overall, both good and bad...
The "story" perhaps then is, Keisha, that I bet the Indians wish they had really good border security, did not have open borders, were not fighting each other all the time, and were able to clearly know who they were letting into "their" land.
The pilgrims were thanking God even though almost half of them died. They brought the good news to a new nation. Today when we celebrate thanksgiving we are giving thanks to God.
“Natives” were killing each other in obscene and horrible ways long before white man came around. We just happened to bring a whole lot of disease and fire-water that they had not experienced before.
So, she’s saying the people who were already there died because they welcomed or at least didn’t or couldn’t fight off invaders from outside.
Perhaps there is something for children to learn from that.
Native American groups often enslaved war captives whom they primarily used for small-scale labor.[1][2] Others however would stake themselves in gambling situations when they had nothing else which would put them into servitude for a short time in some cases for life; captives were also sometimes tortured as part of religious rites, and these sometimes involved ritual cannibalism.[1][4] During times of famine some Native Americans would also temporarily sell their children to obtain food.[1]...
Why don’t they just stick to William Bradfords Diary if they really want the truth, Thanksgiving is a Celebration of the END of Communism in the United States.
Limbaugh’s fathers story is cool.
Happy National Genocide (Thanksgiving) Day!
Nicole Breedlove
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huffpost.com — 11/25/2013 06:40 pm ET Updated Jan 25, 2014
Thanksgiving has never been a celebratory holiday in my family. Whenever my family did cook we always gave thanks that all the Native Americans weren’t wiped out when Columbus “discovered” America. I never understood why my family was so against Thanksgiving. In school we drew turkeys with our hands and it was a happy time. It meant a couple of days off from school. My teachers made it seem like Thanksgiving was a holiday to look forward to. The New York City public education system told me what Thanksgiving was all about. I was very careful to regurgitate what they taught me when tested so I wouldn’t get a failing grade. When I was older though I was told the truth by my family.
My great, great, great, great grandfather was a part of a band of Black Indians in Florida, hence my unique and Native American-sounding last name. It seems I come from a long line of warriors and activists. I am a revolutionary not by choice but by lineage. When I did finally learn, there was no stopping me. Whenever someone asked what I was doing for Thanksgiving I proudly stated that I no longer celebrate it. Thanksgiving day should be known as National Land Theft and American Genocide Day.
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I learned that in 1637 the body of a white man was discovered dead in a boat. Armed settlers — which we tell our children were God fearing, gentle, sharing, kind Pilgrims — invaded a Pequot village. They also set the village, which included many children, on fire. Those who were lucky enough to escape the fire were systematically sought, hunted down and killed. While many, including historians, still debate what exactly happened this day, also known as the Pequot Massacre, it directly led to the creation of “Thanksgiving Day.” This is what the governor of Bay Colony had to say days after the massacre, “A day of thanksgiving. Thanking God that they had eliminated over 700 men, women and children.”
William B. Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chairman of the Anthropology Department at the University of Connecticut stated, “Gathered in this place of meeting, they were attacked by mercenaries and English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth were shot down, The rest were burned alive in the building. The very next day the governor declared a Thanksgiving Day. For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a Governor was in honor of the bloody victory, thanking God that the battle had been won.”
When I finally found out the origins of Thanksgiving it made me nauseous. Never again will I celebrate a holiday I know nothing about until I investigate its origins. I am very thankful, pun intended, that I learned about the origins of this holiday. It is a reminder that history can be rewritten and if told enough times eventually becomes the truth!
People always tell me to forget the past. I should just let it go and move on. Why do people of color always have to forget?! Would you tell a Jewish person to forget about the holocaust and just move on?! Would you tell the family of those who lost their lives on 9/11 to just forget about it?! So why are our tragedies forgettable and others are not?! I WILL NEVER forget! I will ALWAYS honor those who lost their lives unjustifiable.
So when you sit down to dinner this year, look at your family, serve the food and tell each other what you are most thankful for, think about the origins of Thanksgiving. Think about the countless Native Americans who lost their lives so you can carve a turkey and get the best deals on Black Friday. Say a prayer for them, especially the children, who died simply because of the color of their skin.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/thanksgiving-pequot-massacre_b_4337722
Way, to go Keisha, you bigoted, exclusionist ass.
The Indians fought against the colonies and the U.S. in two wars. French and Indian plus the war of 1812. After being so nice to them.
Amen!