First lame excuse:
We need to set aside a day to give thanks. Really? Just one day? We should be thankful everyday! If you can get out of bed every day under your own power and have money in your pocket you are luckier than probably half of the world's population.
Second lame excuse:
You need a day to get together with family. Aw, you do that only once a year, that's sad. Although with some families once a year may be more than enough.
Third lame excuse:
To celebrate the first Thanksgiving,the Indians with their new friends the Pilgrims. Hum, let's ponder that for a minute. This did NOT work out well for the Indians. Strange people who they helped survive in the wilderness thanked them by eventually nearly wiping them out with wars and diseases for which they had no natural immunity to. The later even claiming Indian Heroine Pocahontas.
My paternal grandmother was half Sioux Indian. Growing up part Indian I did look at things somewhat differently. Columbus Day is another ridiculous holiday. Columbus didn't "discover" anything. That would be like me planting a flag in my neighbor's yard and claiming it for Spain. You can't do that, "someone already lives there".
And watching a movie of Custer's Last Stand was strange, even though we won. The voice-over would say, " and no one survived Custer's last stand". Wait a second, what does he mean no one?! Most of the Indians survived! I didn't get it. So for me it is painful to celebrate a holiday that is painful to my heritage.
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