Post by AbsolutMetal on Nov 23, 2005 14:09:06 GMT -5
you know, "thanksgiving"?
I donno why I didn't think of it this way before...my incredibly uptight ancestors got tossed from England and basically invaded (or immigrated) to this already populated land. Then, because they couldn't survive in the real world, only one built on land ownership, shinny metal and an "economy", they almost starved/froze to death. The Wampanoag Indians saved their asses, they'd been surviving there for thousands of years. The Wampanoag people gave them land, and basically showed them how to survive. In 1692, when everything was still cool and somewhat respectful following the Pilgrims first winter, there was a harvest feast. Thus the "history" of thanksgiving.
But by 1637, Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop proclaimed a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children. Nice guy huh? This was of course part of the long and bloody process of opening up (stealing) additional land for the English invaders. The pattern would repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of Native Indians had been exterminated and the rest were left to assimilate into white society or die off on reservations, out of the view of polite society. There's something to celebrate...we have such a great history. Now it's a day of fat Americans gourging themselves on the spoils of an empire that started with the genocide of native indians and continues with our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
I'm gonna to my mom's house and eat too much hybrid turkey raised in a factory farm under conditions of pain and squalor with a healthy diet of chemical-infused feed, and stuffed with a long list of antibiotics to control rhinotracheitis and colibacillosis. It'll be washed in clorine before it hits the supermarket too, sweet!
I donno why I didn't think of it this way before...my incredibly uptight ancestors got tossed from England and basically invaded (or immigrated) to this already populated land. Then, because they couldn't survive in the real world, only one built on land ownership, shinny metal and an "economy", they almost starved/froze to death. The Wampanoag Indians saved their asses, they'd been surviving there for thousands of years. The Wampanoag people gave them land, and basically showed them how to survive. In 1692, when everything was still cool and somewhat respectful following the Pilgrims first winter, there was a harvest feast. Thus the "history" of thanksgiving.
But by 1637, Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop proclaimed a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children. Nice guy huh? This was of course part of the long and bloody process of opening up (stealing) additional land for the English invaders. The pattern would repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of Native Indians had been exterminated and the rest were left to assimilate into white society or die off on reservations, out of the view of polite society. There's something to celebrate...we have such a great history. Now it's a day of fat Americans gourging themselves on the spoils of an empire that started with the genocide of native indians and continues with our illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq.
I'm gonna to my mom's house and eat too much hybrid turkey raised in a factory farm under conditions of pain and squalor with a healthy diet of chemical-infused feed, and stuffed with a long list of antibiotics to control rhinotracheitis and colibacillosis. It'll be washed in clorine before it hits the supermarket too, sweet!