PeaceBunny's life quest for PEACE, LOVE, and BROWNIES

Thanksgiving is even more patriotic than Fourth of July. You take away Thanksgiving, you take away someone's pride and joy, you decide to tell them the truth and they choose to deny it. "You're dwelling on the past." That's what my mom said to me when I shared with her the true meaning of Thanksgiving. She rather believe the 3rd grade storybook our pastor read at some dinner last week, than believe her pescatarian, progressive, radicalist child (exaggeration, I am pescatarian though). My mom did not want to hear it. You know what's also in the past? Slavery, yet my mom always brings up how black people worked hard during those times. If someone told her to feast and celebrate on that day, she would freak and call them racist. But everyone always seems to forget the Natives, it as if they don’t matter. “None of us were there to see what actually happened.” I know, thank God! That’s why William Bradford was kind enough to journal about the tough times in the new land and their savage occupants known as the natives. Trust me though babes, no body wants to hear what could stir up their comfortable little cups of tea. That might make it taste different, and the person is not used to it that way, so they don’t like it, without even opening their minds to this new way of drinking tea. My mom must hate how my teacher is teaching us all these things about America. She’s not even American, and I guess she still wants to see this country as the good place that started her life over. I bet when my mom hears this from some television show my some Christians, or adults rather, she will listen, just like every other thing Trevina or I have told her. She finds out somewhere else, and THEN its doctrine. How bogus. Thanksgiving needs to be exposed, not to make people feel bad or take something away from people, but to help them realize other people suffered in the past, and they never got the compensation or respect they needed. To remember them on what is known as thanksgiving, will be that respect and honour they need. When I’m and adult and living on my own, I am not celebrating Thanksgiving. When I have a family, with children, if they want to, I guess they can celebrate Thanksgiving, but in a different way.

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