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28
Nov 2008
6:21 AM EDT
   

Thanksgiving: The New Fourth of July

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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  • Username: PeaceBunny
  • Gender / Age: Female, 34
  • Location: USA - Florida
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    About Me: I am someone who rather not sum up all the qualities and life experiences in this one space since I can not even do such in a journal entry about my one day. Not because I think I am better, and I am definitely not, but because I don't know where to start...still though, I am a very nice person, I love people even though I do like to spend time by myself to reboost and reevaluate so that I can actually be around people and respect them. I am not one of those "I hate humankind" people and I do not hate America, there are somethings that I do rant about and call out and express myself strongly about and it upsets people, so I am working on saying it in a way that will get my point across and not so harshly. I am a Christian, I am a writer, I am a woman, I am a Black American (Jamaican too), I am a pescatarian, soon to be veg. I am still kind of afraid to be passionate about what I believe in as a woman, black person, and pescatarian not because I am ashamed but because I do not want to preach to people and tell them what to do and because most times they aren;t even listening. Everyone listens when I talk about Christianity though so yay for me!

    Interests: Christianity, the Bible, Islam, Buddhism many other religions, Vegetarianism, Music, Writing (Poetry included), Art as in drawing paintings and their history, I love History of all kind by the way, except for American, but its not that bad I guess. I love dancing, singing, hanging out with my family, friends, learning new things, ranting about and also discussing controversial topics. I watch television and I know the evils so spare me, I like the computer and I like taking pictures even though I don't have another camera other than on my cell phone. I have many more interests like boys for example, they are an interesting species to observe and interact with :)

    Favorite Music: The Cribs, Run DMC, Babyshambles, Death Cab For Cutie, The Charlatans, Naughty By Nature, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kooks, Public Enemy, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Lupe Fiasco, Late of the Pier, and many MANY MANY more, trust me, but I really like reggae, rock, hip hop (old skool except for Lupe), some techno and nuevo tango

    Favorite Movies: Oh No, too much to fit here, but I really love the movies Waking Life, Freedom Writers, DreamGirls, Next Stop Wonderland, Marie Antoinette, DIe HArd with a VEngence, Something NEw, Clueless, MOulin ROuge, Shrek, MEan Girls, A Knight's Tale, The Dark KNight and really there's so much more films I enjoy that I have to add later...

    Favorite Television: The Mentalist, Life on Mars, The New Adventures of Old Christine, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Psych, The Simpsons, Boondocks and more

    Favorite Books: the Bible, it has everything yo...but I really like the books A Lesson Before Dying, End Game, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, and much more can't really think of anymore right now