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[quote=Anonymous][quote=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.

[b]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.[/b][/quote]

This last sentence is, I think, unintentionally very funny, but I agree with everything PP wrote. [/quote]

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