Bliss by Harry Bliss for November 27, 2019

Damn gentrification!

Send ’em to Greenland.. almost no one to bother there!

Thanksgiving:David J.SilvermanThis Land Is Their Land: The Wampanoag Indians, Plymouth Colony, and the Troubled History of Thanksgiving

The Myths:One is that history doesn’t begin for Native people until Europeans arrive. People had been in the Americas for least 12,000 years and according to some Native traditions, since the beginning of time. And having history start with the English is a way of dismissing all that. The second is that the arrival of the Mayflower is some kind of first-contact episode. It’s not

It (the dinner) gained purchase in the late 19th century, when there was an enormous amount of anxiety and agitation over immigration. The white Protestant stock of the United States was widely unhappy about the influx of European Catholics and Jews, and wanted to assert its cultural authority over these newcomers.

In that short period of time the white people have developed their xenophobia: no Catholics. No Jews.

Ahead of the 400th anniversary of the first Thanksgiving, a new look at the Plymouth colony’s founding events, told for the first time with Wampanoag people at the heart of the story.

…Wampanoag adults have memories of being a kid during Thanksgiving season, sitting in school, feeling invisible and having to wade through the nonsense that teachers were shoveling their way. They felt like their people’s history as they understood it was being misrepresented. They felt that not only their classes, but society in general was making light of historical trauma which weighs around their neck like a millstone. Those stories really resonated with me.

What is the Thanksgiving myth?

The myth is that friendly Indians, unidentified by tribe, welcome the Pilgrims to America, teach them how to live in this new place, sit down to dinner with them and then disappear. They hand off America to white people so they can create a great nation dedicated to liberty, opportunity and Christianity for the rest of the world to profit.

Visit the Smithsonian

Hope they brought there own booze ! … that last tribe was a bunch of leeches !

Wait until you see the great new clothing fashions they bring.

Priceless

brother, you ain’t a kidding……you and your neighborhood as you know it, is doomed

Not all invasions are led by soldiers.

Maybe we can sell them some of that excess tobacco. I’m sure that they’ll use it responsibly.

How can we separate them from their beads?

You had no idea of how right you were!!!!

This is bad, but if the Europeans didn’t do it some one else would of, Spain, China or maybe the Vikings.

Nativists against unwanted immigration for 400 plus years.

The neighborhood will never be the same again

Metal-heads.