One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting. In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked the fourth Thursday of November as a Day of Mourning in a spiritual/political ceremony on Coles Hill overlooking Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts, one of the early sites of the European invasion of the Americas. Not only is the thought of such a change in this white-supremacist holiday impossible to imagine, but the very mention of the idea sends most Americans into apoplectic fits -- which speaks volumes about our historical hypocrisy and its relation to the contemporary politics of empire in the United States.
Burp! Please pass the gravy.....
If the indigenous people ever get their own holiday I'd suggest they hold off on the alcohol.
A guest at our home relayed a similar comment along the following lines, "We have turned history on its head and created a myth after having conquered the Native American . . . " To keep peace, I merely suggested that the history of man was one of conquest and that, in the spirit of the day, we should be thankful for all we have as a result.
Well they got SOMETHING right. For years, dark meat has been getting short-shrift.
Down with breasts and wings! Thighs and drumsticks uberalles!