Thanksgiving Genocide Quotes

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when I learned of the festive holiday of Thanksgiving that apparently everybody celebrated. I returned the next day preaching about Native American genocide. β€œDid you know,” I asked the art teacher, β€œthat Indians to this day are still being driven off of their land? The government took away their forests and meadows and now they want their rocks. For the uranium. So we can make atomic bombs to kill every last woman, man, and child.
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Joshua Safran (Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid)
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Blood and Blunder (The Sonnet) The world is filled with atrocious holidays, Columbus Day, Australia Day and Thanksgiving. Holidays steeped in blood and blunder, are passed on proudly as occasion of merrymaking. Imagine celebrating 9/11 as a day of freedom, Yet colonizers do exactly that without shame. And these animal holidays are a thousand times more atrocious than the crash of nine eleven. Nine eleven is a ghastly stain upon history, there is no doubt or question about that. But what about the infinitely larger stains, inflicted, respected and celebrated by cowards! Human rights can never prevail till we dismantle every false celebration. Animals find honor in blood and blunder, We become human through course correction.
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Abhijit Naskar (The Divine Refugee)
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Refugees & Colonizers (The Sonnet) Refugees carry culture, Colonizers carry infection. Colonizers are the virus, Refugees are civilization. Refugees live on hope, Colonizers thrive on greed. Refugees dream of acceptance, Colonizers dream supremacy. Refugees are the true free and brave, they carry within the silver lining. There's nothing brave about genocide, no matter the whitewashed thanksgiving. Refugees are practicing healers, living testament of wounds to ointment. Colonizers are proof of darwinism, that from monkeys comes the human race.
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Abhijit Naskar (Brit Actually: Nursery Rhymes of Reparations)
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Thanksgiving can be both lovely reunion and implicit acceptance of genocide. A polite silence. Some of your readers are not convinced. How dare you politicize Thanksgiving! We are only giving thanks for how the Indians helped the Pilgrims! But if we really want to be thankful: Why not give back the land? Pay reparations and land taxes? Engage in truth and reconciliation? Or simply remember history?
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Viet Thanh Nguyen (A Man of Two Faces: Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2024)