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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you know other cultures have Thanksgiving to celebrate the harvest? They didn’t all conquer North America. [/quote]

So maybe we shouldn’t have based this holiday on the myth about “pilgrims and Indians”.  [/quote]

Schools are dropping any mention of Indians at all. It's not just turkeys and Pilgrims. Sounds like that ought to make some people happy, everyone will just forget about them.[/quote]

Yup. They want to pretend like it never happened. Or the people aren’t still suffering today.

Revisionist history to the max. [/quote]

Not so much revisionist as irrelevant. People are moving forward, why should they dwell on the past when it has nothing to do with them? Obviously the people who were hurt feel differently, but they aren't making much of an impact convincing anyone else to put their needs first. Everyone has their own problems these days.[/quote]

Why do we bother to learn any history at all? It all happened in the past. Why dwell on any of it?  :lol:

Maybe if we don’t sugar coat history just to make white people feel comfortable then we can learn from our mistakes and do better in the future. 
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Why only white people? I know none of my relatives were here way back when we come from other places with their own history. No Mayflower descendants in my family tree. I think you mean anyone that every immigrated here. We're all in the same boat. [/quote]

No one should learn any history unless it was about their own ancestor? 
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