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6 Native American girls explain the tragic story behind Thanksgiving
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Should we tell them about the Pequots and their whole thing? Or does that not jive with the whole it’s whitey? Or how it was a regional celebration that the first couple were basically more native than white? Or the various other things we actually, y’know have documents on. And hey, it looks like Lots of passion, little knowledge Day has started early.
Imma need to see some historical sources on this. Documents and shit.
https://factreal.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/heritagepilgrimsmourtsrelationjournalbywinslow.pdf Page 133.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/28/thanksgiving-proclamation_n_4078958.html with an excerpt that actually put the call to it at GEorge Washington (and fixed the date, Abe only made it a federal holiday).
Hell a historian who actually looked at shit did it twice. http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/15002 and http://www.sail1620.org/Articles/thanksgiving-on-the-net-roast-bull-with-cranberry-sauce
Basically they decided to swing in exactly the opposite from the Pilgrims did all this on their own and it was only a couple indians at the first thanksgiving, to they did this to celebrate killing innocent natives that lived peacefully with one another. Which any historian, both native AND not can tell you is a load of grade A bullshit.
Weren’t the Pilgrims dying of starvation and disease before the Natives helped them, as well as being killed by a group of Natives who were rivals with the tribe which they had the first Thanksgiving with, and certain Native groups were okay with helping future settlers attack and even kill said rival groups because they shared a common enemy?
Or is Vox just conveniently ignoring those parts of history, and are just using these Native Americans as their mouthpieces for historical revisionism for one of the two days of the year they cry crocodile tears about the Native Americans, but don’t do jack shit to help them, and instead give half-hearted platitudes like these endless puff pieces and “Indigenous People’s Day” to distract from the fact that they don’t really care about the plight of the Native Americans, and would rather sit on their asses instead of doing something to stop stuff like a certain pipeline?
Likely. Hell you could probably ask them about the conditions being bad on the Lumbee reservation and they’d report about it on one of those two days.
In spite of the Lumbee not being a recognized tribe and not having a Res.
It’s always those two day specific days, and nothing else. And it usually involves “stretching the truth” about history, cutting out the whole “Pilgrims dying of starvation and plague” and “Natives killing other Natives” parts to incite hatred between races.
As I said in another post, sites like Vox and Mic don’t care about other racial, ethnic, religious groups, or even women as people. They care about them as a source of profit to line their pockets, and that’s pretty damn dehumanizing in my book.
With all the fuss over fake news these days, you’d think outlets like Voc and mic.com would take the time to do research to distance themselves from crap like this.
Prime example of progressives taking up the “noble savage” trope themselves and just wrapping it up in new dogma
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