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Am I Not Human?
On the 27th day of each month, several bloggers participate in the “Am I Not Human?” campaign, which highlights human rights abuses across the globe. That this month’s day of blogging for awareness of human rights abuses occurred on Thanksgiving is not lost on me. So, with that in mind, I offer a few blog posts that I found said things that need to be heard.
Professor, What If: Reconsidering Thanksgiving, Pt.2, Pt. 3.
Renee: Thanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians.
Thanksgiving is a difficult holiday for me. It is a holiday where you are supposed to get together with your friends and loved, and be thankful for all that you have. On the surface, that is dandy. I celebrate (if that’s the correct word) Thanksgiving with love and well wishes for everyone, but I cannot set aside the horror that is the origins of this holiday. I see no point in lying about what this holiday means.
I feel that Purple Zoe is on to something here.
Gratitude day is a meatless/green alternative to the genocidal roots of Thanksgiving, that we’ve celebrated for 3 years now (Gratitude day can be celebrated on the 23, 24, thru the 27th, and also as an alternative to other holidays with questionable roots).
As part of Gratitude day we enjoyed a meatless feast that was rather fly, and lit a candle in honor of the Divine, our Ancestors, and the ones who came before us seeding the world with light in general. We gave tremendous thanks for the freedom fighters.It’s been a good day. Our household is very grateful for the honesty in our home, the sanctuary, and above all: the love.
And so, my wish is that your Thanksgiving was really a Gratitude Day, a day of honesty, sanctuary, and love.
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a friend shared this with me yesterday, an article about how a lot of lefties love thanksgiving and how thinking that we can make our own realities and ignore global repercussions fits into capitalism:
http://www.alternet.org/story/68170
just wanted to share. : ) thanks for the links.
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That’s a great article! Gives me much to think about. Thanks for sharing!
Thanksgiving with love and well wishes for everyone, but I cannot set aside the horror that is the origins of this holiday.
I’m sure that very few of today’s Indians actually realy care about those supposed horrors. But if you like to read about horror then by all means read about the Incas, Aztecs or the Toltecs. These guys make Columbus seem like a social worker. Who cries for the little Aztec/Inca children who were tortured and flayed alive to please the Maize god? Who cries for the teen-age girls scalped by Comanche or Apache warriors? Shucks-they had it comming didn’t they?
I celebrate this day just fine and feel no GUILT toward any Indian or former slave.
“I celebrate this day just fine and feel no GUILT toward any Indian or former slave.”
How nice for you. /snark
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@Toby:
Who cries for the little Aztec/Inca children who were tortured and flayed alive to please the Maize god? Who cries for the teen-age girls scalped by Comanche or Apache warriors?
I do. And so should you instead of trying to play these stupid “one-up,” who was the meanie meaniest bullshit games. You can kindly take that mess somewhere else.
I celebrate this day just fine and feel no GUILT toward any Indian or former slave.
I bet you do.
Ugh. Toby the Troll sure does get around.
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That Jensen article is the one that pushed me to decide to start celebrating the contributions of indigenous people to my world on a different day in November next year while dedicating “Thanksgiving” to some organized action to raise consciousness.
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Ah, I love this troll designation from you so-called progressive little neo-marxists. And, how cute: your dedicating “Thanksgiving” to some organization to raise consciousness.
Sorry, but mass communal guilt strikes me as being unconscious. History is replete with such nonsense with dire results.