Happy Turkey Day ..........Sucka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Another Thanksgiving is upon us and as we approach it some things are painfully obvious;
Pilgrims weren't the first people in America to hold a thanksgiving.
The first thanksgiving had no religious significance at all, but was merely a harvest festival.
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner has nothing in common with the Pilgrim's meal.
Squanto and Samoset spoke excellent English.
You believe what you choose and give thanks where you will, but let's just take a second and think the strange irony that Native Americans are a mere after thought in the US? I mean at 37, I know one full blooded Native American, I know several black chicks who think the good hair they posses, can be traced back to Indian in their family. I can understand if we are talking dinosaurs who once walk the earth or some damn endangered bird? we are talking about a group of people native to this land we claim today? WTF imagine going to Mexico and seeing 10 Mexicans or less or Africa and not encountering a single African?
"Young children's conceptions of Native Americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. That conception of Native Americans gained from such early exposure is both inaccurate and potentially damaging to others," says Debbie Reese in "Teaching Young Children About Native Americans," an ERIC Digest (May 1996).
For example, a visitor to a child care center heard a four-year-old saying, "Indians aren't people. They're all dead." "This child," Reese says, "had already acquired an inaccurate view of Native Americans, even though her classmates were children of many cultures, including a Native American child."
"By failing to challenge existing biases we allow children to adopt attitudes based on inaccuracies," Reese continues.
Just food for thought again we often put our own spin on whatever the holiday is regardless of how historically inaccurate that it me be ex: XMAS, Easter, etc.
That aside I am very thankful for the art of breathing on a daily basis :) enjoy Turkey Day
Pilgrims weren't the first people in America to hold a thanksgiving.
The first thanksgiving had no religious significance at all, but was merely a harvest festival.
Traditional Thanksgiving dinner has nothing in common with the Pilgrim's meal.
Squanto and Samoset spoke excellent English.
You believe what you choose and give thanks where you will, but let's just take a second and think the strange irony that Native Americans are a mere after thought in the US? I mean at 37, I know one full blooded Native American, I know several black chicks who think the good hair they posses, can be traced back to Indian in their family. I can understand if we are talking dinosaurs who once walk the earth or some damn endangered bird? we are talking about a group of people native to this land we claim today? WTF imagine going to Mexico and seeing 10 Mexicans or less or Africa and not encountering a single African?
"Young children's conceptions of Native Americans often develop out of media portrayals and classroom role playing of the events of the First Thanksgiving. That conception of Native Americans gained from such early exposure is both inaccurate and potentially damaging to others," says Debbie Reese in "Teaching Young Children About Native Americans," an ERIC Digest (May 1996).
For example, a visitor to a child care center heard a four-year-old saying, "Indians aren't people. They're all dead." "This child," Reese says, "had already acquired an inaccurate view of Native Americans, even though her classmates were children of many cultures, including a Native American child."
"By failing to challenge existing biases we allow children to adopt attitudes based on inaccuracies," Reese continues.
Just food for thought again we often put our own spin on whatever the holiday is regardless of how historically inaccurate that it me be ex: XMAS, Easter, etc.
That aside I am very thankful for the art of breathing on a daily basis :) enjoy Turkey Day
posted by KHALLI 88 at 12:43 PM
13 Comments:
agreed....
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. frankly, i think all of this needs to be said every year until thanksgiving is abolished. i refuse to celebrate the genocide of indians.
and you were definitely on point about the misconceptions being tossed around as "fact" regarding indians. i don't know any full blooded indians and in fact didn't even realize my great-great grandmother was a full-blooded indian until i saw her photo last year and inquired about it. it would seem that many black folks don't say much about it, although many other black folks think they're related.
anyhoo, knowing i'm part indian makes me feel even MORE oppressed. damn.
Good points here.
I am grateful for my blessing, but not just once a year.
I am a native american man in montana ,ojibway, and its true that there seems to be very few of us, but have you been to a reservation lately? here in the US natives are alive and on the rise, thank you for your thoughts and as for thanksgiving we all should be thankful for the blessings and trials of our lives. This thanksgiving remember to thank the natives who made democracy possible and helped this country to survivePeace, Red Thunder
"By failing to challenge existing biases we allow children to adopt attitudes based on inaccuracies"
That is so true. And it's true for academia, religion, social norms ...
Good Post, K88... Thanksgiving is such a farce! A caucasian friend of mine asked me why black folks raise so much hell when politicians say stuff, seemingly small stuff, that may be offensive to blacks. I told her that somebody better say something! We'd all be stuck in slavery or something worse if people didn't rise up. How many native Americans live in her community or mine?... None. What would have happened if the native Americans raised hell back then? We will never know...
Happy Massacre Day...Thanks for your post...and for your well wishes on my anniversary...I hope you share your voice with me again LOL...
That was so well said....I am thankful everyday for my blessings.
@sweetpeachny - ditto
@Nikki - Thanks Nikki for coming through and you are dead on.
@groove - good point
@robert thanks for the insight Robert.
@goddess you are right it reaches across some many spectrums
@ladylee you make a valid point and I think they raised up and pay with their lives.
@dj diva thanks for coming thru and again congrats on your anniversary blog :)
@rose niceely said as well.
I agree. I am so sick and tired of the Disneyland stories kids hear in school nowadays and not the true that Americans are cruel. Let's get back to teach education and not Donald Duck.
I hope your holidays are exciting. I know its a busy time but fill me in. I'm always eager to hear about what's going on at home.
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You speak nothing but the truth. Love your blog.
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