Post by
FiddyFiddyOddz on Nov 25, 2021 1:16pm
Time To Cancel American Thanksgiving ?
National Day of Mourning turns Thanksgiving into something more honest.
The yarn often spun in the US doesn't mention the fact that Indigenous people's encounter with English colonists was marked by incalculable loss from everything from genocide to disease and theft of land.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/25/us/national-day-of-mourning-race-deconstructed-newsletter/index.html
Comment by
Quintessential1 on Nov 25, 2021 3:58pm
Yeah, it really should be called Thankstaking. Go Enbridge! ;-)
Comment by
FiddyFiddyOddz on Nov 25, 2021 4:51pm
Bill Maher the other week referred to the early settlers as "Undocumented Immigrants"....LOL Quin wrote:"Yeah, it really should be called Thankstaking. Go Enbridge! ;-)"