[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

Answers my question: Yes, the entire world has gone mad.

[Scarchin]

My school did a similar thing during summer school. We got a memo that said Please be sensitive that July 4th is viewed as a time of mourning for our students of British ancestry.

Did I getcha? LOL!

[Don Corleone]

Only if your the Turkey.

[toddlintown]

Their casinos will be filled with white devils.

[dervish]

They didn’t “mourn” till the Left told them to.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hey! For once it’s not California!

WAIT till I tell my full-blown Cherokee friend this one.....she’ll be laughing her head off....

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Reparations, anyone?

[MarkL]

You know, this leftist bovine excrement used to be funny in an ironic way. But now they're just pissing me off...

Mark

[cookcounty]

Well, .....do the right thing: Pack up and move back to Europe.

[balls]

How I hate Seattle and the State of Washington with a passion! It's inhabitants are so naive and anti-American. It seems that nothing but bad news ever comes out of this state.

Incidentally, screw the Indians. They are a conquered people and there are conquered people in just about every country in the world.

[TornadoAlley3]

Is this satire?

[DocRock]

These liberal teachers are trying to hide history. The real story of Thanksgiving is the failure of Communism. When I was a kid, I was taught about the "Common Storehouse" which all the Pilgrims put their harvest into. Then it was divided out equally, so they equally starved. When the Pilgrims finally gave up the "Common Storehouse" they prospered. This history is being rewritten and it is not easy to find the William Bradford writings on this matter. Here is what I did find:

"While still in Holland, the Pilgrims sold all they owned, and still didn’t have nearly enough to finance their expedition. They turned to the private investors who demanded that in the New World the Pilgrims own and farm the land in common, put the fruits of their labors each day in a common storehouse, each taking out the same amount, no matter how much — or little — they put in.

The Pilgrims objected on the grounds that it was a mistaken socialist, collectivist arrangement, against God’s principles of private property and economic justice , based on "as ye sow, so shall you reap." But the investors, while not philosophical socialists but pragmatic business men, insisted, on the grounds that it would provide a convenient arrangement for the dividing of the expected profits.

But the first year under communal agriculture, the Pilgrims planted just 26 acres and nearly starved to death. As Governor Bradford reported, "they gathered in the small harvest that they had." They shared what they could with the Indians, and the Indians shared the deer they had slain for the occasion with the Pilgrims, but it was no huge Thanksgiving feast, and they soon were acutely hungry.

The second year, knowing they had to go all out, but still under the obligation to practice communal agriculture, they doubled their first year’s production, and planted 60 acres. But that was no by means enough, they still were near starvation.

And so the third year, they switched to private agriculture, assigned each family its own property, made each responsible for itself. They planted 184 acres, tripled their best previous effort, and never went hungry again."

LINK: Plymouth Rock Foundation

[Trailerpark Badass]

I'm no scholar, but what relevance does Thanksgiving have to the "indigenous" stone-age peoples of the Pacific NW?

Did they hear about it via smoke signals?

[montag813]

the fact that for many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning.

Uh, I thought the Indians celebrated Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims. When did it become lumped into the whole Columbus-phobia shit?

[SuziQ]

LOL! Tell that to the Indian tribe that helped the Pilgrim settlers because they were anxious to have some assistance in protecting themselves from another Indian tribe that had been attacking them.

[Doctor Don]

No settlers, no casinos, no modern health care, sleep in wigwams, hunt buffalo....die age 30? Mourning? They oughta be jumping up and down and clicking their moccasins together!

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

Why don't all those educators who are in agreement work on Thanksgiving as way of expressing solidarity and also atonement?

On a somewhat unrelated aside, I've always though that this is one of the funniest Thanksgiving cartoons ever.

Publishing it did get people into trouble though, which is just madness.
Advisor, Editor of Student Newspaper Investigated for Publishing Cartoon

[al baby]

With all the money I have lost a Pechanga they should mourn my wallet

[monkeycard]

Get over it.

[ken21]

my mother’s 3/4 american indian,

and i’m not mourning.