Digest Number 8

[Guest guest]

In response to the question about Thanksgiving, I

don't celebrate it all, really. When I look at what

the holiday was created to celebrate -- the wholesale

slaughter of Native communities, and a country whose

riches and " freedoms " were built on slavery and

genocide -- these are not things for which I choose to

be thankful. I don't feel the need to replace a dead

turkey with something else. Frankly, I'd rather give

thanks on other days which are more personally

meaningful for me -- friends' birthdays, changing of

the seasons, some of the holidays important to my own

ethnic heritage -- but not some commercialized,

unconscious amerikan hoo-ha. Actually, I've wanted for

many years now to make it to the Native American

sunrise anti-Thanksgiving ceremony for many years now,

but I never seem to get up early enough!

 

 

 

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