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Maybe it is the need to understand and to communicate. Some people think all oppression before Hitler's is forgotten pages of history but we need to perceive long term consequences both to the oppressed and the oppressors for generational guilt still wrecks havoc in peoples' lives.  I appreciate your liberty to express anger.  Maybe we need a world expressing Grief Day - so much has been perpetrarted by so many.

posted by RoseyP on October 13, 2011 at 2:38 AM | link to this | reply

Hey, girl. I'm part Indian and I don't celebrate a day that celebrates the

military defeat, killing, and enslavement of Massachusetts area Indians.  They can say all they want with their whitewashed history, but Thanksgiving is a celebration of the end of King Philip's War.  Chief of the Wampanoag, Philip, son of Pilgrim befriender Massasoit, after being forced from his lands and seeing his brother killed, fought a year-long war until he was shot through the heart.  His head was severed from his body and mounted on a pike and placed outside Fort Plymouth (remaining there twenty years).  His wife and 8-year-old son were sold as slaves.  There's your Thanksgiving, so Hallelujah! and pass the cranberry sauce...

All that aside, I don't begrudge anyone else celebrating Thanksgiving, Mademoiselle.  Most people continue in blitheful ignorance of why we celebrate anything in this country...    

posted by saul_relative on October 12, 2006 at 8:40 PM | link to this | reply

America was only discovered 514 years ago?

Wow ... seems a lot longer.

Do Indians  Native Americans still celebrate Thanksgiving, btw? I always wondered that. If they do, I bet they probably call it something different.

"One foot in the grave."

posted by Mademoiselle on October 12, 2006 at 1:25 PM | link to this | reply