Americans must acknowledge Thanksgiving's racist origin

The Tulane Hullabaloo ^ | November 16, 2016 | Kathryne LeBell

[GuavaCheesePuff]

For college students especially, American Thanksgiving might be one of the best holidays of the year. Free food and childhood nostalgia can easily eclipse its dirty origin story. In truth, Thanksgiving has racist roots that are widely ignored by the American public. The glorification of colonialism and stereotyping of Native Americans should make anyone, regardless of race, pause and consider the cultural racism that has been a part of our childhood socialization.

[Maverick68]

I honestly think Political Correctness is dying before our eyes....the more it is exposed, the more it has become a subject of ridicule...

[facedown]

Here is the little snowflake herself:

Kathryne LeBell
Student at Tulane University

[BatGuano]

“GTH” do not pass “GO,” do not collect $200.00.

This news, that Thanksgiving has a racist origin, really upsets me. I just threw the Turkey and all the trimmings away. My plan now is to go the the Supermarket and sneer at all those dumb suckers who don’t have a clue that they are continuing a celebration of racism.
Signed,
One distressed Bat

[papertyger]

Thanksgiving has racist roots that are widely ignored by the American public.

No, it's not. It's a part of American cultural heritage ripe for deconstruction and revisionism, because most Americans see no reason to take it at any more than face value. SJWs, on the other hand, prospect for exactly these kind of nuggets because, most celebrants never bothered to try to find something to virtue signal in an event so innocuous. Therefore, they can't immediately and definitively confute even the most horrendously perverse assertions about the holiday in question. Not that it would make any difference to the SJWs if they did.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Having someone over for a meal is racist.

Whatever.

[bboop]

The Hell we will!!

[Jack Hammer]

Not this sh*t again...

[GuavaCheesePuff]

Ah....typical SJW snowflake. When will these people just go?

[midlander]

exactly! THANK YOU FOR HAVING CLEAR VISION!

[Flick Lives]

Put down the stuffing and back away from the table Kathryn.

[simpson96]

Kathryne LeBell

[Original Lurker]

Folk are in for a fight.
Satan’s not going to give up what he’s waited patiently to own.

[Gene Eric]

Such an adorable little liar.

[Pravious]

“Go to Hell.”

I couldn’t say think of a way to say it better (without being banned, that is).

[GingisK]

Those liberals have a one track mind ... out there in the weeds, so to speak.

[Lopeover]

We are borg, crazy leftist fascist....resistance is ignorance

[windsorknot]

Eyes glazed over. Pass the turkey and dressing and pumpkin pie and......

[Jan_Sobieski]

Kathryne,

Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving! My heart goes out to you and other college students around this great nation. You young people have been indoctrinated with a revisionist understanding of the United States of America that makes it impossible for you to know and believe truth. I shed tears at the thought that you cannot enjoy America's Christian Holidays because of the heavy weight of "white guilt" that you bear.

You see, the historical story of Thanksgiving has nothing to do with race. Rather, it is an acknowledgment that there is only one race, the human race, and that the God of the human race is a God of love, mercy, self sacrifice, and redemption. Thanksgiving shows that the sovereign, loving God sent Christ fearing men and women to the shores of America to bring the light that is the light of all men. Those same men and women came to the aid of the Wampanoag people who were under genocidal threat from other tribes.

The Thanksgiving Story shows how God works in the lives of believers, and unbelievers, by his sending Squanto ahead of the pilgrims to the Wampanoag to facilitate their settlement. Yes, there were injustices, and those injustices were on both sides for it is the heart of man that is the epicenter of evil in the world. However, in the Thanksgiving Story the genocidal norm of unregenerate man was quenched by the the Spirit of God that came with the Pilgrims. As the Pilgrims flourished along side the the natives who received civilization, they built the Ivy League colleges to reach out and help the natives understand the God of civilization.

Why do you bear guilt for colonialism? It was God who ordained that men spread across the face of the earth to populate it? What should the pilgrims be forgiven of? Surviving? Helping the neighboring tribes? Putting an end to the genocidal norm of brutal tribal America as the Christian culture spread through the land? Setting up schools to send missionaries out to bring Christian Truth and civilization to the natives who had not even developed the wheel.

The story of Thanksgiving is not a story of exploitation, but rather an equal-opportunity story of God's love and outreach to two groups, Native Americans and White Settlers. The Bible states, God is no respecter of persons, and he judges the content of man's character rather than the color of his skin. One thing I agree with you Katheryne regards open dialog. Yes, we need to open up dialogue with our family members regarding the true historical Thanksgiving and not the revisionist version that you have been indoctrinated with. We need to be truly thankful for God's love and mercy for natives and white settlers alike on this holiday. For had the pilgrims not survived, you would have no false white guilt to bear.

Happy Thanksgiving Katheryne!

[SandRat]

HEY! LIBTURD GO To HE, Double HOBKEY Stick

[Peter W. Kessler]

What happens if I refuse?

Because I refuse.