Thanksgiving Article from The Black Commentator

Nobody but Americans celebrates Thanksgiving. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish event on the national calendar. No Halloween of the imagination can rival the exterminationist reality that was the genesis, and remains the legacy, of the American Thanksgiving. It is the most loathsome, humanity-insulting day of the year – a pure glorification of racist barbarity.

We at BC are thankful that the day grows nearer when the almost four centuries-old abomination will be deprived of its reason for being: white supremacy. Then we may all eat and drink in peace and gratitude for the blessings of humanity’s deliverance from the rule of evil men.

Thanksgiving is much more than a lie – if it were that simple, an historical correction of the record of events in 1600s Massachusetts would suffice to purge the “flaw” in the national mythology. But Thanksgiving is not just a twisted fable, and the mythology it nurtures is itself inherently evil. The real-life events – subsequently revised – were perfectly understood at the time as the first, definitive triumphs of the genocidal European project in New England. The near-erasure of Native Americans in Massachusetts and, soon thereafter, from most of the remainder of the northern English colonial seaboard was the true mission of the Pilgrim enterprise – Act One of the American Dream. African Slavery commenced contemporaneously – an overlapping and ultimately inseparable Act Two.

The last Act in the American drama must be the “root and branch” eradication of all vestiges of Act One and Two – America’s seminal crimes and formative projects. Thanksgiving as presently celebrated – that is, as a national political event – is an affront to civilization.

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I'm speechless!

That is the best article on Thanksgiving I've ever read!

The author is correct: This is not a story for children.

However, it IS a story for High School (9th grade) American History class!

But I think it's wrong to teach children lies about it. I actually think it's wrong to even celebrate Thanksgiving at all. The fairy tales about pilgrims and Indians eating together supports a sort of ingrained racism that really does begin with what we teach our children.

I'm not suggesting children should know about every gruesome detail, but I tell mine Thanksgiving is a holiday that celebrates genocide, which means the killing off of a large mass of people, and that that's why I don't celebrate it.

for 30,000 years or more. Thanksgiving is one of the Original Instructions. The Pilgrims were just putting their own spin on it, as the modern world does today. The native peoples of the Americas always have -- and always shall -- engage in Thanksgiving. It is a core teaching.

as Lincoln attempted to re-unite the country, somehow, some way.

It think getting pissy about every holiday makes liberals look insane.

Isn't there something else we should be worrying about - like, say, election fraud, winning in 2006 and 2008, taking back the media?

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Thanksgiving, XMas, Easter ect are all ancient holidays and if you don't like the modern day versions reclaim them and make them your own.

But ask any Wampanoag...the first People to meet/greet the Mayflower folks...they will tell you ThanksGiving was hyjacked from a Native holiday.

It was the Wampanoag, feasting amongst themselves, who felt compassion and concern for the white people unprepared for a New England winter...so they brought them some of their celebration food.

The Town of Plymouth hands the 'key to the city' to the Wampanoag Nation on ThanksGiving Day. It is the only city in the country that HONORS the generosity and humane-ness of the gesture. The Wampanoag organizes a ThanksGiving Day parade and has made a day of reconing...a statement "We are still here, alive, and here to tell you...."

My stepdaughter's birthday is on July 4th, the same weekend of the Wampanoag Pow Wow. Great fun and good Cape Cod food! Lots of shellfish, corn and turkey legs. Dance contests all day. We go every year, now. 'Money blankets' are walked slowly around 'the circle' for community members in need...a very heartwarming feeling overwhelms the crowd, when the blanket has gone full circle and the money is counted...the tears of gratitude for the community who genuinely cares for its members. Sweet.

Excellent article from the Black Commentator. This website is on my Editorial 'top 10' list. Thanks for posting this.

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and sharing their food is so out of touch with reality.

Glad to hear that it is being strongly criticized.

I caught the tail end of a report on cable that many families don't even bother with the turkey anymore. They enjoy going to get some Pizza and watching television.

I am old fashion in one respect,I believe that certain days or times should be about families getting together and nurturing each other.

I love getting together and laughing and dancing with my friends and family! I don't care what day it is.

The racist hatred in that article makes me want to puke!

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Regardless of the truth of the story, isn't the mythology that is propagated about people of different cultures coming together? About helping those in need? My god, the bastards, is there anything more evil than that? How can we live with ourselves knowing that we are pushing such values on our children...