Have you ever really thought about what you are celebrating and why it is still being celebrated?
Thanksgiving was a massacre not a pleasant meal between the Natives and pilgrims. The pilgrims were too lazy to work their land as the Natives taught them to do so they murdered them by the villiage and stole their food reserves and then had a huge feast in honor of their own selfishness.
Still to this day Natives are depicted in a clownish manner on this holiday. Your children are still being taught lies and ignorance and therefore my children suffer.
How thankfull are you?
2007-11-12 02:52:21 · 6 answers · asked by ? 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Thanksgiving
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2007-11-12 02:52:47 · update #1
Being Native American, I don't celebrate Thanksgiving.
I do celebrate harvest and I love turkey and all the fixings. Also, being a Pagan, harvest lasts from summer to early fall as it was celebrated in times past. Halloween marks the beginning of winter.
2007-11-12 03:44:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Through out history all cultures took time after the harvest to celebrate & give thanks that they had enough food to get them through the long winter.
What is typically thought of as the first American Thanksgiving, with the Native American & settlers, was indeed a feast where the Natives came & basicly saved the settlers lives because they were not familiar with dealing with their new environment & didn't know what naturally growing plants were edible. If not for the Native Americans, even more of the settlers would have perished.
However, when we celebrate Thanksgiving today, we aren't celebrating the Thanksgiving of Plymouth, Mass. although that is what many an elementary teacher would have you believe.
The modern Thanksgiving is actually the result of a letter writing campaign by Sarah Joseph Hale, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Hale believed that there needed to be a holiday that focused on family togetherness, and after writing letters to anyone & everyone in all levels of government for about 40 years, Abraham Lincoln declared the first Thanksgiving in 1864 (the last Thursday in November).
Although from 1864-1941 there was a Thanksgiving celebration every year, the date often fluctuated, and it was not an official holiday. In 1941, President Roosevelt established that the fourth Thursday in November be the national Thanksgiving.
2007-11-12 03:09:46 · answer #2 · answered by Stephanie H 4 · 6⤊ 0⤋
Yes. That's why the Cowboys play football every Thanksgiving day. On special years, they will beat the Redskins or Chiefs on this day to commerate the massacre.
Nothing like remembering a good ole' beat down while filling your belly with turkey.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I do!!!
2007-11-12 03:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is not a celebration of that day, or those times...it is THANKSGIVING day. A day to give thanks. It just happens that it dates back to those times.
My ancestors were still in Europe, at that time. We didn't come to this country until the 1800's. Yet I still stop and give thanks, not for the pilgrims, but for all I have in my life.
2007-11-12 03:01:28 · answer #4 · answered by Jonny B 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Thankful for those turkey wings and stuffing.
2007-11-12 02:55:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yeah but too bad they didnt kill a cat or we would be eating p*ssy
2007-11-12 03:06:22 · answer #6 · answered by Another Day Another Vendetta 5 · 0⤊ 6⤋