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It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without turkey, long lines, and people browsing their phones for Black Friday deals in which the products had their prices raised by 80% and then cut by 80% before being stealthily replaced by Amazon with identical looking Chinese knockoffs.
And it also wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without the media launching another round of shots in its endless war on America with ‘explainers’ claiming that the Pilgrims were racist and that we should be ashamed of the holiday.
(Axios even managed to slander Sarah Josepha Hale, an abolitionist who helped make Thanksgiving a national holiday (and wrote ‘Mary had a Litte Lamb’) by accusing her of racism.)
After a week of agonizing over why America hates them and rejected their candidate, the media returned once more as a dog to its vomit to despising everything American and trying to destroy it.
The point of the Thanksgiving story is not what eventually happened between the pilgrims and some of the local Indian tribes (even less so whatever Hale thought about having black people colonize Liberia, a popular cause at the time and one that black nationalists began flirting again with Africanization during the black power movement), it’s that two groups were able to set aside their conflicts, eat together and show gratitude.
It’s a point even more important at a time when the media repeatedly encourages conflicts over Thanksgiving dinner and some children are refusing to visit their parents for Thanksgiving over election resentments.
Gratitude is important, but it’s also the context of that gratitude. Thanksgiving is about gratitude to the Creator, but it’s also about finding a point of harmony with our fellow men for at least a brief period.
That’s also what Armistice Day (now Veteran’s Day) and Memorial Day (originally Decoration Day) were about.
Some of our crucial holidays were about finding brotherhood and fellowship in the face of conflict. Thanksgiving brought together Pilgrims and Indians, Memorial Day, families of the fallen on both sides of the Civil War, and Veteran’s Day marked a time when the guns stopped firing and Americans, English, French, Germans and Austria-Hungarians could come together. (My grandfather, who was a doctor on the Austria-Hungarian side, used that time to provide emergency medical aid to an ‘enemy soldier’ on the other side of the lines.)
It’s the people who most need this message who also seem least able to take it in.
Leftists politicize everything and therefore they cannot coexist with anyone which is why Thanksgiving has to be yet another extension of the culture wars, dividing up families and the entire nation.
And as for gratitude, that requires finding the good and then thanking a higher power for it. Not only do few lefties believe in any such power, but gratitude requires putting aside the resentments that fuel the movement.
Like petulant teenagers, leftists triumphantly argue that the past was not perfect. As if anyone or anything is.
The point of gratitude and fellowship is not that anyone or anything is perfect, but that in an imperfect world, we can stop to appreciate what we have and to appreciate each other. What sworn enemies were able to do for centuries, leftists seem unable to do today. Immersed in comfort and shared values, they cannot do what worn and hungry men on the verge of losing their lives were able to do for the last four hundred years.
America needs gratitude and fellowship now more than ever. And it needs a people capable of it.
Beautifully stated, Thanks. So many are trained to hate, rather than find the good out there.
It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without some fatuous college kid whining about stolen land, settler colonialism or returning the land to the original inhabitants, at dinner or during a football game.
Do yourself a favor. If your daughter or son is home for the holidays and some adult child has attached him/herself to your little darling and is disrupting dinner, take the offending element to the side and tell them to STFU or leave.
And give him/her cab fare or Lyft fare, or whatever it’s called now. Pour a drink and relax. It’s your house. Your kid will thank you after the holidays.
“America needs gratitude and fellowship now more than ever. And it needs a people capable of it….
It’s the people who most need this message who also seem least able to take it in.”
Do you even know what reading comprehension is?
Do you even know what decorum is jackass?
Someone who calls me a jackass is bound to be an expert on decorum!
I’m not saying that I have decorum. I’m saying that you don’t.
I bet one person and one person only came back again and again downvoting you 19 times.
Or maybe it was shared on a leftist channel and the useful idiots there came here.
19 Down votes? That’s 19 pieces of shit.
I’m honestly not capable of socializing with people that want to destroy America . My bad i guess ..
The one time a a Year that has those idiots from PETA acting even more stupid and Idiotic then ever
They just tracked down one of those PETA guys who had been hiding out in Wales, of all places, for 20 years. I kinda felt sorry for the kid, just another brainwashed idiot who fell for the leftist propaganda.
If he’s been hiding out there for twenty years, he’s probably not a kid. Maybe by our standards because we’re old as fuck but you know what I mean.
I know what you mean, though. Kids do stupid things. I don’t like to see them punished for past mistakes.
I have some broad who wants to bring me some peach cobbler pie and some other southern one to me tonight. I guarantee sh’ll bring me some turkey and fixens, too. I don’t know why chicks like me so much. I’m OLD!
They like old guys some times. I think it is psychologically a replacement for their fathers.
Anyway I remember news stories about that guy from the time of the crime. I remember thinking, at the time, the poor idiot fell for all that propaganda.
Let the healing begin:
Take an Indian to lunch this week
Show him we’re a regular bunch this week
Show him we’re as liberal as can be
Let him know he’s almost as good as we
Make a feathered friend feel fed this week
Overlook the fact he’s red this week
Let him share our Quaker Oats
‘Cause he’s useful and he votes
Take an Indian to lunch
I was just reading about the Indians under their great chief Tecumseh who were fighting for the British against the Americans in the War of 1812 🙂
During a British siege of an American fort, the British commander told the American commander that if he didn’t surrender the fort, the British would let the Indians loose on the Americans when the British took the fort 🙂
I remember the British, French and Americans were all scared of being captured by the Indians because they tortured their captives horribly. You should read about their torture methods, If you have a strong stomach. They were gruesome, brother. I’m glad I was never caught by them.
Yeah. The British used them a lot in their wars against Americans.
A bunch of pro terror, useful idiots were arrested at the Macy’s parade. The braindead tools want to ruin everything.
“endless war on America with ‘explainers’ claiming that the Pilgrims were racist and that we should be ashamed of the holiday.”
I just saw a program today on CBN tv Christian network that showed the life of Pocahontas, an Indian woman from 1620 in America (not the Faux-pocahontas that resides in DC today). Pocahontas helped the Pilgrims grow crops; she later married one of the Pilgrims! (America’s first interracial marriage – one would think that today’s dems would celebrate this!) Years later, the Pilgrims took Pocahontas back to England, where she was honored by the king for helping the Pilgrims survive. The show ended showing pictures of a church in England which had a stain glass window showing images of Pocahontas working with the Pilgrims – a tribute to her so that todays’ generation will remember who helped these English settlers survive when arriving in America. Pocahontas passed away while in England. The English buried her in a special place next to one of their churches.
So much for today’s liberal fools calling the Pilgrims racist.
The late Che so celebrated by Brain-Dead Liberal Useful Idiots had once planned to Bomb Macys during the Christmas Shopping Season a Little Message for those idiots wearing Che T-Shirts