Thanksgiving

6 Comments

1. Supreme Ase wrote:

   November 24, 2011 at 5:58 am

   Right On!
2. Hassan wrote:

   November 24, 2011 at 10:49 am

   Indeed! I’m still getting my eat on bruh lol. I definitely understand the history behind it but my family think I’m a little crazy when I talk it about on Thanksgiving. The celebration of many of these holiday’s really stems from us always just going along for the ride and never looking at how the TRUE history of the events affected us as Black people (You been getting at this in alot of your post lately like the occupy bs). We always trying to be down and integrate with other and don’t realize we give our history and identity by always trying to fit in with these fools. Someday we will celebrate our own Thanksgiving based on OUR history.
3. Blackscholar wrote:

   November 24, 2011 at 12:23 pm

   You the Shit!

   I found you by accident. Looking for colorism and reading reviews of this self hating pathological book:

   “our kind of people”
4. R&G wrote:

   November 24, 2011 at 12:32 pm

   @Supreme – If Jesus is the reason for the Season for Christmas then I feel we should know the truth behind Thanksgiving. What if someone made a holiday for the Holocaust saying the Jew willingly gave their lives to further science? I’m sure they would say what the hell is going on and who is the devil who twisted what really happened. Well for our Native American Brothers they don’t have that voice but for those of us who know it’s important to put forth the truth at all times even on a fake ass holiday.

   @Hassan – It’s for you to know and that’s all. People don’t want to know what’s really going on they’d rather believe in the Easter bunny. A lot of us Black folks want to believe in the fantasy too because to think about the truth scares us to our core.

   Our existence bothers people for no other reason than just reminding people of their evils in the past. It’s their guilt not ours. But, we have been brainwashed to believe it’s not a attractive part of who we are to bring up that we were raped, burned, lynched, sodomized, castrated and excluded by the government. Instead we feel bad and ashamed to be the raped. How can the rapist be more moral than the raped? Like I said the truth is for you to know and that’s all.

   @Blackscholar – Welcome – Glad you stumbled upon the site and hope you will continue to come and break bread with us on the R&G. Dig into the site as I’m sure you’ll find more than just a rhyming URL!

   I haven’t read Our Kind Of People.. yet but I’m sure it’s from one cat’s point of view. We are all entitled to tell a story from our lives. It’s just a book and based on how you responded it wasn’t your reality. But, it probably was theirs.
5. gallego71 wrote:

   November 28, 2011 at 9:51 am

   In Thanksgiving we see Pilgrims and Native Americans eating together. That is the history they put forth to people to obscure reality. The reality is the Pilgrims would have starved to death if it weren’t for the Native Americans who taught the Pilgrim to grow corn, hunt etc. And in return for helping the Pilgrims, the Pilgrims massacred, raped and enslaved the Native Americans. Even in those days Thanksgiving was not a holiday until the Victorian era here in the US.
6. R&G wrote:

   November 28, 2011 at 10:07 am

   People want to believe the fairytale. I’m sure if there was a way to make Slavery seem Pius they would do that shit too.