How do you perceive Thanksgiving day? If you want to think it was a great day of really nice native Americans giving the foreigners food, dont read this.... We can thank the invention of textbooks and their mass purchase by public schools for embedding this Thanksgiving image in our modern minds. It was, of course, a complete invention, a cleverly created slice of cultural propaganda, just another in a long line of inspired nationalistic myths. History should not be rewritten because its not politically correct to think about what really happened. The first Thanksgiving Day did occur in the year 1637, but it was nothing like our Thanksgiving today. On that day the Massachusetts Colony Governor, John Winthrop, proclaimed such a Thanksgiving to celebrate the safe return of a band of heavily armed hunters, all colonial volunteers. They had just returned from their journey to what is now Mystic, Connecticut where they massacred 700 Pequot Indians. Seven hundred Indians - men, women and children - all murdered. Happy Thanksgiving! Let us not forget the true history of the world events.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:16:21 +0000
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