Yeah, the follow tripe is just one man's tripe, but it's the sort of tripe that will most surely become more and more prevalent (and acceptable) as time goes on.
Get used to it. From here forward there will be a steady stream of it. Those of you who thought your ancestors did their part to make America great will learn instead that all that's wrong with America actually rests on your shoulders.
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http://www.alternet.org/culture/no-thanks-thanksgiving
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.
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers.
Get used to it. From here forward there will be a steady stream of it. Those of you who thought your ancestors did their part to make America great will learn instead that all that's wrong with America actually rests on your shoulders.
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http://www.alternet.org/culture/no-thanks-thanksgiving
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.
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers.