Deconstructing the Thanksgiving Myth

[alephz]

I don't know if it's been posted before but I came across this and thought I'd share it with everyone.

Deconstructing the Myths of "The First Thanksgiving"

Just a little food for thought.

Comments

[romp]

thanks for posting this

[blkrabbitofinle]

As someone from outside of the US, I've always wondered how Thanksgiving isn't more awkward than it appears to be, from what I see in internet discussions and movies. It seems akin to having half a class of kids get done up in blackface to celebrate the arrival of African Americans and the hard work they put in to making the US what it is today, you know what I mean?

[alephz]

I can well understand what you mean; though I confess I hadn't thought much about the way they dress up kids in YEARS. Gad, it's even worse than I was thinking. 'Cause the lies and bullshit and pretending that everything was happy and cooperative and so on are bad enough but... Ipes.

[mimicucumber]

Thanks, I don't know much about Thanksgiving and this is a useful tool.

[alephz]

Oooo! Many thanks!

[mhnicholson]

Related information can be found in James Lowen's Lies my Teacher Told me where he discusses that the Mayflower was owned by the backers of Jamestown and was originally destined to bring people and supplies there. A group of passengers (now called the pilgrims) hijacked the vessel and diverted it to Plymouth. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement to keep the remainder of the passengers in line after they found that instead of joining the thriving Jamestown, they would be taking over the area now known as Plymouth, where plague had recent thinned the indigenous population enough to make that possible

[alephz]

Ooo! Many, many thanks for the recommendation and supplemental info!