Thanksgiving Day unappreciation
'I just like turkey' ass nikkas
iFightSeagullsForBread
The Working Class Hero
u still tight about that neg huh
Don't quote me stupid.
You still
that shook ass nikka when I ethered your crusty ass 
I'm not a Jehova Witness so I'll take all my holidays.
I think the important thing is how you utilize your history. You can know it and that's fine, but eating a fried turkey will not and should not condemn you to chains.
Don't quote me stupid.
You still
I just washed with black soap and applied a mixture of assorted whipped raw butters/oils
you still mad tho
You southern nikkas are embarrassing yourselves in this thread
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before we partake in traditions that were forced on us throughout the years, let's know the real origin of them.
THE REAL STORY OF THANKSGIVING
Most of us associate the holiday with happy Pilgrims and Indians sitting down to a big feast. And that did happen - once.
The story began in 1614 when a band of English explorers sailed home to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians bound for slavery. They left behind smallpox which virtually wiped out those who had escaped. By the time the Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts Bay they found only one living Patuxet Indian, a man named Squanto who had survived slavery in England and knew their language. He taught them to grow corn and to fish, and negotiated a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag Nation. At the end of their first year, the Pilgrims held a great feast honoring Squanto and the Wampanoags.
But as word spread in England about the paradise to be found in the new world, religious zealots called Puritans began arriving by the boat load. Finding no fences around the land, they considered it to be in the public domain. Joined by other British settlers, they seized land, capturing strong young Natives for slaves and killing the rest. But the Pequot Nation had not agreed to the peace treaty Squanto had negotiated and they fought back. The Pequot War was one of the bloodiest Indian wars ever fought.
In 1637 near present day Groton, Connecticut, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot Tribe had gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival which is our Thanksgiving celebration. In the predawn hours the sleeping Indians were surrounded by English and Dutch mercenaries who ordered them to come outside. Those who came out were shot or clubbed to death while the terrified women and children who huddled inside the longhouse were burned alive. The next day the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony declared "A Day Of Thanksgiving" because 700 unarmed men, women and children had been murdered.
Cheered by their "victory", the brave colonists and their Indian allies attacked village after village. Women and children over 14 were sold into slavery while the rest were murdered. Boats loaded with a many as 500 slaves regularly left the ports of New England. Bounties were paid for Indian scalps to encourage as many deaths as possible.
Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches announced a second day of "thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were kicked through the streets like soccer balls. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape the madness. Their chief was beheaded, and his head impaled on a pole in Plymouth, Massachusetts -- where it remained on display for 24 years.
The killings became more and more frenzied, with days of thanksgiving feasts being held after each successful massacre. George Washington finally suggested that only one day of Thanksgiving per year be set aside instead of celebrating each and every massacre. Later Abraham Lincoln decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day he ordered troops to march against the starving Sioux in Minnesota.
This story doesn't have quite the same fuzzy feelings associated with it as the one where the Indians and Pilgrims are all sitting down together at the big feast. But we need to learn our true history so it won't ever be repeated. Next Thanksgiving, when you gather with your loved ones to Thank God for all your blessings, think about those people who only wanted to live their lives and raise their families. They, also took time out to say "thank you" to Creator for all their blessings.
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People literally go broke for this bullshyt and Christmas. I cannot imagine why it's so hard to imagine NOT following a tradition that CELEBRATES the murder and destruction of entire groups of people. People murdered in their own homes. It's Columbus day part two.
People literally go broke for this bullshyt and Christmas. I cannot imagine why it's so hard to imagine NOT following a tradition that CELEBRATES the murder and destruction of entire groups of people. People murdered in their own homes. It's Columbus day part two.
Should people give up the day off and the food tho? What exactly are Ya proposing?
I just enjoy the day off from work. I don't hit no one up and wish them happy thanksgiving or all that other shyt. I just chill at home.
i dont think anyone is saying that. I think it's important for people to know what they're truly celebrating, and not what's been told to us since pre-k.
It really should be a day of mourning and honor for the NA's who were brutally attacked, enslaved and murdered.
Awareness is definitely important. I think a change of Columbus day and Thanksgiving day to native american memorial holidays would be perfect.
Concerning VIolence
Decolonizer
You guys act like you can't eat with your family any other day of the year.
You don't need a holiday of genocide to sit down and eat.