November 22, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving From VDARE.com! (While It
Lasts)
George W. Bush has just issued a
Thanksgiving Proclamation, dating it "in the
year of our Lord two thousand six, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the two
hundred and thirty-first, " in the
old-fashioned format used on all
Presidential proclamations, which sounds like an
offence against multiculturalism all by itself, since
the obvious questions are "Year of
Which Lord?" and "What do you mean,
Independence?"
Thanksgiving is originally a Christian
holiday—the first settlers in America
weren't big on pluralism. When I started writing
this last week, I hadn't heard any reports yet (this
year) of Thanksgiving being targeted by the
anti-white,
anti-Pilgrim, and
anti-Christian complainers who surface every
holiday. But I knew they were out there.
Michelle Malkin has
highlighted one such instance on her blog:
Teacher
Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a
black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins
snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his
pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him
because he "discovered" them. The reaction is exactly
what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their
things back.
Morgan is among
elementary school teachers who have ditched the
traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress
up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized
version of their first meetings. [
Teachers
emphasize the Indians' side By ANA BEATRIZ
CHOLO, Associated Press , Nov 21,]
The children responded by scalping him and
his family with hatchets and setting fire to the
teachers lounge with burning arrows. (Just kidding.)
Christina Ricci did a much funnier version of this in
the movie Addams Family Values. Dressed as
Pocahontas for the Thanksgiving play, she made the
following speech:
Wednesday
Addams: Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have
taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now
my people will be forced to live in
mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear
cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our
bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf, and
eat hot hors d'oeuvres. My people will have pain
and degradation. Your people will have
stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They
said do not trust the pilgrims, especially Sarah Miller.
[A child in the same Grade Six class.] And for all
of these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn
your village to the ground.
In 1993, that was a joke. Now teachers are
acting like members of the Addams Family. And it's all
part of an larger trend.
For example, Las Cruces, New Mexico, has
recently been sued by people who want to remove three
crosses from the
official logo of the city, which takes its name from
memorials erected to Spanish victims of the Apaches. It
was Placita de Las Cruces (Place of the Crosses),
where
survivors of a massacre erected crosses in honor of
the fallen. The three crosses on the logo are so
stylized that you really have to know what they are to
realize they're there, otherwise you'd think it was some
kind of checkerboard motif.
(Click to enlarge.)
A judge
threw the suit out, and the people who brought it
are complaining about feeling "
vilified,"
although of course if you're doing something vile,
then you will be vilified. Michelle Goldberg, who was
mentioned here on VDARE.com last year, when she
didn't believe that there was War against Christmas,
has now written a whole book, with
its own website, called
Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism
, which is
based on the idea that Christians just got here this
year, rather than in, say, 1620, and are going to
take over, rather than being, say, the vast
majority of Americans.
Here at Vdare.com we have a number of things to be
thankful for. One is our continued existence, since
Christmas 1999, throughout six years of the Bush
Administration. (Let's pause a moment and give thanks
for the
22nd Amendment, which limits Presidents to two
terms. Whatever you may say about
Roosevelt's Fourth Term, it resulted in an Amendment
which will save us from a Bush Third Term.)
Another thing we have to be thankful for is our
readers—they write us letters, (sometimes they become
full-time writers for us) they give us moral support,
and of course, they give (tax-deductible, remember)
financial support. I'd like to thank, once again,
the people who have sent money, and the people who are
planning to.
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