Well, Thanksgiving does have Christian roots, so it's got to go, right? What's next? The Fourth, because of the '1619 Project' hoax?
From The College Fix
By Staff
The alumni associations of several universities are taking part in a webinar tomorrow titled “The Thanksgiving Dilemma: Reevaluating Our Annual Celebration.”According to the Alumni Learning Consortium, whose mission is “to help alumni associations engage their constituents to offer more and better online engagement programming than each school could offer on their own,” the November 22 virtual event asks “Should Americans reconsider Thanksgiving when wrestling with our country’s complicated past?”
The myth of Thanksgiving is powerful and ubiquitous. In the autumn of 1621, so American legend has it, English Pilgrims seeking religious freedom shared a feast with Wampanoags, the residents of the territory the Pilgrims labeled Plymouth. The good feelings of that meal soon faded when Native peoples and English colonists, including the Pilgrims, began to compete for resources, initiating conflicts that raged for generations. Yet despite the often-violent relations between the nation and Indigenous communities, the myth of coexistence remained.By 1970, the ALC notes, “many Americans” began to ponder whether Thanksgiving should be “rededicated” as a “National Day of Mourning” so as to reflect on the “centuries-long displacement and persecution of Native Americans.” It adds that recent shifts away from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples’ Day “reflect a changing national mood.”
Fox News reports five institutions are participating, including the University of Maryland, Florida Gulf Coast University, Washington State University, California State University, Long Beach and Ohio’s Hiram College. The alumni association for the University of Central Arkansas also had been listed as taking part; however, a school spokesperson told Fox its inclusion was in error.
Webinar speaker Peter Mancall of USC told Fox the purpose of the discussion is to “explain the context for events and offer insights about how to interpret the existing evidence.” He added he “respects [the] audience’s ability to draw their own conclusions about the material.”
No comments:
Post a Comment
Comments are subject to deletion if they are not germane. I have no problem with a bit of colourful language, but blasphemy or depraved profanity will not be allowed. Attacks on the Catholic Faith will not be tolerated. Comments will be deleted that are republican (Yanks! Note the lower case 'r'!), attacks on the legitimacy of Pope Francis as the Vicar of Christ (I know he's a material heretic and a Protector of Perverts, and I definitely want him gone yesterday! However, he is Pope, and I pray for him every day.), the legitimacy of the House of Windsor or of the claims of the Elder Line of the House of France, or attacks on the legitimacy of any of the currently ruling Houses of Europe.