Then They Came For Thanksgiving…


[VDARE.COM
on earlier Thanksgivings:


11/21/01 – Thanksgiving: The National Question
Footnote


11/27/02 – Thanksgiving, Crazy Horse, Us

11/27/02 – Thanksgiving Prayer 2002


TODAY`S LETTER: A Reader Comments on Multi-Cultist
Holidays

09/25/03 – Pressure On The Pot [Blast
from Past! A 1989 Peter Brimelow column from the London
Times.]

Our annual

Christmas competition
, in which VDARE.COM spotlights
the

“War Against Christmas”
is coming up soon. But while
you`re eating your

turkey
this year, you should know that there`s a

war
against

Thanksgiving
too.

The first Thanksgiving was

proclaimed
by

George Washington
, The Father of His Country, who
has been repeatedly

attacked
for being a slave-owner, and for

not being diverse
.

Thankgiving was officially revived
by in 1863 by Abraham Lincoln, the “Great
Emancipator”
, who has been

attacked
by Lerone Bennett, of Ebony Magazine,
for

being in favor
of a “lily white America
without Native Americans, African Americans, and Martin
Luther Kings.”

And finally, Thanksgiving is
celebrated on the fourth (not last) Thursday in November
because

Mayflower descendant
FDR, who has been

attacked
for interning

innocent
(make that fairly “innocent”)

Asian-Americans,
wanted to help Macy`s and Gimbels
start

Christmas shopping
early.

Funny things seems happen to
Thanksgiving Presidents

Robert Stacy McCain has an article
in the Washington Times detailing some of the
latest

anti-Thanksgiving horrors.


“Multiculturalism has taken its toll on the reputation
of the small band of Protestant separatists who landed
at Plymouth Rock in November 1620.

“Only
51 of the 102 who arrived aboard the Mayflower survived
the first harsh New England winter. Now the question is
whether the Pilgrims can survive political correctness
in the 21st century. [Pilgrims`
progress
?
November 25, 2003]

McCain reports that the Plymouth,
Massachusetts, Board of Selectmen


“erected plaques at Plymouth Rock declaring: `Native
Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims
and other European settlers. To them, Thanksgiving Day
is a reminder of the genocide of millions of their
people, the theft of their lands, and the relentless
assault on their culture.`”

There are four problems with
Thanksgiving: 1) white Pilgrims, (“an offensive
representation of

one gender, one race and one historical period
“);
2) ungrateful Indians, who pick Thanksgiving
to highlight their

unthankfulness
; 3) modern immigrants, who feel that
Thanksgiving has nothing to do with them, 4)
[unmentionable], to whom

thanks are given.
Here are some examples:


  • Indians Not Thankful


    “During an interview
    on Monday`s Today with the author of a book
    urging families to learn more about the history of
    Thanksgiving and to appreciate being American, NBC`s
    Ann Curry countered: `You know there are some American
    Indians who feel that Thanksgiving should be a day of
    mourning not a day of celebration because of what
    happened to their people.`”



    Media Research Center


  • Insensitive 6-year olds

    A
    group of Skokie 1st graders got an unexpected lesson
    in cultural sensitivity Friday when their principal
    wouldn`t let them

    dress as American Indians
    for their annual
    Thanksgiving celebration.


    After a parent complained that the costumes the
    children had made might be offensive, the principal
    told the kids to leave their construction-paper
    headdresses on the classroom shelves.


    Those who had opted to be pilgrims fared no better.
    Their paper black hats and bonnets also were banned,
    and for the first time in more than two decades, the
    1st graders at Madison School commemorated the events
    of October 1621 in their school clothes.


    American Indian groups in Chicago applauded Principal
    Pete Davis` decision. Leonard Malatare [Malatare@aol.com]
    of the

    American Indian Center
    said generic Indian outfits
    tend to promote Hollywood-style stereotypes of
    American Indians.



    School bars pilgrim, Indian costumes as insensitive
    ,
    By Rex W. Huppke, Chicago


    Tribune
    , November 22, 2003


  • Pilgrims Not Diverse Enough For 21st
    Century School children

    From
    “A Celebration of Diversity: Immigration and
    Citizenship,”
    [a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    School of Library and Information Science

    teaching tool
    for grade school]

    Objectives


    Understand the basic concept behind diversity

    Explore and compare the differences and similarities
    of classroom members

    Identify the ethnic backgrounds of people in the
    class and further explore these backgrounds

    Understand that the United States of America is now
    mostly made up of people from other places called
    immigrants…


    Multicultural Thanksgiving Dinner

    1. Review what diversity means.
    1. Read the story of the first Thanksgiving celebrated by
      the Pilgrims and the Native Americans in Plymouth.
      There are several stories about Thanksgiving available
      in the school or public libraries. One you might try
      is The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward,
      The Story of the First Thanksgiving
      by Elaine
      Raphael and Don Bolognese, The Thanksgiving Story by
      Alice Dalgliesh, or a more modern version which
      includes the concept of immigration, How Many Days
      to America
      by Eve Bunting.

  • Thank God? Isn`t that illegal?

    “So enjoy Thanksgiving while you can, folks; it could
    be struck down as unconstitutional by the courts any day
    now. Just last week, President George W. Bush issued a

    Thanksgiving proclamation
    asking God `to continue to
    guide and watch over our country.` That kind of talk has
    got to make somebody mad.
    [Pray
    that Thanksgiving won`t become a legal battle
    By
    Andrea Neal, Indianapolis Star November 26, 2003]

And there`s one new protest group
that`s being heard at Thanksgiving.

When Mason Cooley

said
, years ago, that “Radical historians now
tell the story of Thanksgiving from the point of view of
the turkey,”
he was joking.

Today we

read that
it`s true:


“Michelle Easton of the

Clare Booth Luce Institute
related a personal story
of her success with school choice after she pulled her
6th grade son out of public school when he was required
to write a Thanksgiving essay from the point of view of
a turkey.”

Ah, well. I suppose some animals,
like some religions, and some countries, are

more equal than others.

A Happy Thanksgiving From VDARE.COM.