Posted on 11/23/2016 9:43:01 AM PST by GuavaCheesePuff
What is it with these idiots .. I guess they just can’t stand for Americans to celebrate their events like other nations do.
And .. the First Thanksgiving was not a “dirty” event in any way. If they could bother to read the truth about it, they actually might learn something.
These people need to just go away and have their whiney party by themselves.
Nice post.
One of the reasons the natives helped the early pilgrims was because they were accustomed to dealing with the French up north. The early French immigrants from even before the 1500’s worked with the natives. They absorbed into the communities, married and had children with the natives. They traded and learned how to survive harsh winter conditions.
But, the British had a different attitude, and not only did they come to American shores and plague the indians, they also plagued the French as a result of the settling of the treaty of Urect.
That’s why the French stood with the Indians during the French and Indian war. The British were a bloody lot at that time and apparently, they were pretty corrupt. The British tried to starve out the French, commit genocide. They stole French lands/farms and forts. They enslaved the people who eventually were forced to migrate south for their very survival. It’s much uglier and deeper than that even, but if you look up the history of the Acadians, it’s there.
I don’t know what kind of racism today’s students think existed, but it had nothing to do with racism. It had to do with the elite ruling class that the British were at that time. Canada has dealt with this hateful snobbishness since the British invasion of that land, and to this day the Queen of GB will not acknowledge or apologize for what GB did back then.
When corruption exists, racism and nationalism can share some very similar qualities. Today, we see that same attitude present in the Democrat elitism that tries to pull from the attitude of the constitutional era saying that the framers intended for an elite ruling class, that the people were never intended to be a part of government. It’s all pretty sick. These are the same democrats who thought slavery was a good thing, and who invented the KKK. They ignore that part of history, and do nothing to teach it to those whom they seek to brainwash.
Everything is racist to them, because THEY are racist. They project their warped image onto others.
Wow, very interesting. I admittedly do not know enough about this subject. Do you have any books that I can read on this subject? It is very interesting to me, coming from formerly French lands (in Iowa) ;-)
How do they come up with these things?
Pilgrims thanked God for helping them, and they invited the Indians to dinner. Sounds like win-win to me.
They said this would happen when we deinstitutionalized the insane.
Kathryn needs some much “real” history classes if this is the crap that she learned in school.
The poster “William Bradford” did a good job of summarizing what actually happened to the Pilgrims in 1620-21.
Rush Limbaugh today on his radio show read from Gov. Bradford’s diaries about what really happened and how “socialism” (a primitive form of everyone gets the same despite some working harder than others to produce food and goods), failed and nearly wiped out the colony at Plymouth.
According to LeBell, “though at the same time, colonists were stealing land and committing genocide”. If this was referencing the 1620-21 period, then she is full of leftist crap. There were only a handful of European settlers there, with their numbers reduced by disease, starvation, and freezing to death, so they were hardly in any position or condition to commit “genocide” against anyone.
LeBell also dishonestly omitted the date/year of the quote by Gov. of Massachusetts John Winthrop about “subduing the Pequots”. It sure as hell wasn’t in 1620-21. A small deliberate omission but one typical of the ignorance racists like Kathryn LeBell.
Interesting that the Poster Bradford referenced Nathaniel Philbrick’s book “Mayflower”. I knew his famous cousin Herbert “I Led Three Lives” Philbrick, an undercover FBI agent deep in the Communist Party USA during the 1940’s.
In fact, Herb was a mentor of mine.
He showed me (as I recall after 50 years) his family bible that came over on either the Mayflower or one of the other English settlers’ ships shortly thereafter (possibly about 1623). He was a Baptist and a non-violent person which seemed to have been a family trait.
On a personal note, my wife’s father’s family came over about the same time (and I did see their family bible) from the 1620’s. They created Dubois and Sykesville, Pa. towns, and in the Civil War, at least 17 of them served in the Pennsylvania Regiment at Gettysburg (I don’t recall if it had a specific number). Their names are carved into a company/regimental stone monument on that battlefield.
I don’t think they kept slaves.
Miss LeBell, not only have you flunked the history of Thanksgiving, but you have fallen for black extremist and revisionist history which creates its’ own “political mythology”.
If this is how you learn and think, then I suggest you drop out of college, save yourself and/or your parents a lot of money, and get a job at Starbucks.
Or you could sue your professor(s) for teaching you made-up crap.
Either way, you’ve proven yourself to be an academic failure in history. Perhaps you should read Gov. Bradford’s diary before you comment again.
And I’m glad to see that Temple Un. beat Tulane in football. Go OWLS!
WE WON YOU LOST go away...
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