Should so called “thanksgiving” be a national day of mourning?

[Anonymous]

I've attended the Day of Mourning in Plymouth. It's very moving (and, the year I went, very cold).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Day of Thanksgiving existed before Plymouth and several more were commemorated afterwards with zero relation to the Pilgrims. I barely think of Pilgrims when I think about a thanksgiving Day. It’s a day I’m grateful for my family and friends as well as other blessings.

Good for you. Live and let live I say. But your personal proclivities don’t change the meaning of Thanksgiving in the United States. Did you ever go to elementary school? Make a hand turkey?

I’m agnostic and don’t think much about Jesus Christ on Christmas. I recognize no one cares. (I also have the sense to refrain from tedious and obvious lectures about the “pagan origins” and blah blah blah I was a liberal arts major and listen to Wait Wait Don’t Tell me. Nobody likes those people.)

[Anonymous]

Another attempt to ruin a holiday by shaming Americans.

Get your own holiday to cry over.

[Anonymous]

I think that we should change the stories we tell about Thanksgiving. I don't know that I'd go as far as to make it a day of mourning, but it would be nice to have some ritual or practice that acknowledges the true nature of the colonialization.

[Anonymous]

Yes let's go the way of FCPS, ACPS and FCCPS and tell everyone that we will no longer take Tgiving break and then replace it on the calendar with a very niche religious holiday that no one gets off of work except teachers....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think that we should change the stories we tell about Thanksgiving. I don't know that I'd go as far as to make it a day of mourning, but it would be nice to have some ritual or practice that acknowledges the true nature of the colonialization.

This country is "the true nature of colonization". You've lost the plot, friend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I want to have Thanksgiving in September, during an actual harvest period, and not in the run-up to Christmas. It's stupid to have it in November.

Tough. It's the 4th Thursday in November. Move to Canada and have Thanksgiving in Oct.

[Anonymous]

To the victor deserve the spoils? Really? Disgusting.

[Anonymous]

I am all for changing the national narrative around Thanksgiving to stop honoring the pilgrims/colonizers and stop painting Native people as savages to be rescued. I'm really glad we're having these conversations.

But I also want to keep Thanksgiving as a day of thanks. It's nice to have a holiday centered around gratitude, spending time with family and friends, nourishing ourselves. On Thanksgiving, I celebrate a day of being grateful and coming together. I totally disassociate with it's origin story, which we know is bunk.

I would be in favor of designating a different day as a day of remembrance for indigenous people who were killed and displaced by settlers. I think it's important to address that part of the country's history and make amends where we can.

But can we please just keep Thanksgiving as a day for eating and communing with loved ones and watching football? It's very meaningful to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Indigenous groups and land-back advocates believe so, and they will gather at the rock called Plymouth to demonstrate.

Should we at least change the name?

Good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the victor deserve the spoils? Really? Disgusting.

At the end of a prize-fight, you look at the guy who's dancing around and that's who won.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To the victor deserve the spoils? Really? Disgusting.

It's life, as unfortunate as it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I'd like it to be 2 days too. Maybe Thanksgiving Thursday stays, and day after, Friday, is a Native American day of remembrance.

I’d like this. I’d like it even more if we could do celebrate with something other than a shopping frenzy.

Why do you hate America

NP. I hate genocide.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Another attempt to ruin a holiday by shaming Americans.

Get your own holiday to cry over.

America does have a dark past. We should reflect on the massive human cost of building this country.

-Mayflower descendant

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another attempt to ruin a holiday by shaming Americans.

Get your own holiday to cry over.

America does have a dark past. We should reflect on the massive human cost of building this country.

-Mayflower descendant

In comparison to China, India? Yeah, no.

Also the Belgium and French colonizers (and attempted Japanese ones) were way, way worse than the English.