Poemsnotperverts's blog: "DAY TO DAY BLOG"

Before anyone starts BOOOOOing me all over the place, hear me out.

Listen,

I am all for spending time with family and friends and eating a nice meal with them, but has anyone ever done their homework on how Thanksgiving got started in the first place? The back story? The REAL backstory? You want the short version? Ok try this...

For starters, as University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen reminds us in a dispatch on the AlterNet website, the very term "thanksgiving" is saturated with disgrace.

By 1637, Jensen writes, Massachusetts Bay Colony governor John Winthrop "was proclaiming a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children" - a bloody pattern that would "repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of American Indians had been exterminated".

That "extermination" was followed by this

In his book, A People's History of the United States, late historian Howard Zinn outlined other mechanisms of capitalist dispossession. An 1814 "treaty" with the Creek nation, for example, functioned by "splitting Indian from Indian, breaking up communal landholding, bribing some with land, leaving others out - introducing the competition and conniving that marked the spirit of Western capitalism."

Furthermore, US "land grabs" of Native American territory "laid the basis for the cotton kingdom, the slave plantations."

In short, with such a sinister past on their plate, it's no wonder US mythmakers prefer to focus on pumpkin pie and cranberry sauce.

So basically thousands of native American people were killed and then a huge feast to celebrate was done after..and then after that was over the land they lived on was taken and tribes were split up 

so..NO, I WILL NOT CELEBRATE THAT ON THAT DAY!

I can eat a good meal with family and friends anytime...I just won't glorify a day of cruelty or murder with turkey and ham. 

NOPE.

And then there's BLACK FRIDAY.

Let's see. Thanksgiving is all about celebrating murdering the native American people and taking their shit

and then the NEXT DAY people go hog wild and act like animals buying shit at stores...like they have nothing at all at home!

SMH

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?

GLUTTONY AND CRUELTY CELEBRATED FOLLOWED UP BY CELEBRATING AND TAKING PART IN GREED

NOPE NOPE NOPE.

Not this girl. 

This is how things SHOULD go.

"THANKSGIVING" day.

We light candles, say prayers and ask forgiveness of the spirits for the harm done to the native American people. 

BLACK FRIDAY

Funds should be sent to every Native American reservation as well as things like food, clothing, supplies..things to help get them through the winter.BLACK FRIDAY should be about helping others not acting like a greedy ass fool with no sense. If you aren't anywhere where you can help those on the reservation then you find someone close by. People who are homeless..give back to THEM..help THEM out. 

I will NEVER celebrate Thanksgiving and never take part in black Friday EVER. I would rather help others then be involved in celebrating murder and greed.

I am out.