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I’m cancelling my wife’s family. I chose to go to her parent’s house on Thanksgiving only to hear about her Aunt who doesn’t celebrate because, “We’re not going to celebrate European colonization.” I was the only one there that’s part Native American, and I love Thanksgiving. Hearing some priviliged white woman lecture me on my favorite holiday was pretty much the last straw for me. It pisses me off that they keep ignoring history and/or rewrite it any chance they get. A lot of the natives were always allies with the settlers. Thanksgiving is a celebration of the friendship and appreciation settlers had for natives. The tribes were enemies with other tribes. They act like all Native Americans were the same. And they were all victims of the white man. It’s absolutely BS. Now I think the Spanish settlers was a different story. But instead of trying to actually learn what happened, it’s easier to boil down 500 years of history to just racism and white supremacy. Nevermind the Africans who sold slaves to the white men, nevermind the brutality of some of the native tribes, nevermind all of the progress we have made. These assholes will never be happy. When they get what they want, they find something else to complain about, and it never ends. Nevermind they want to use the illegal immigrants in the same way they used slaves. Nevermind it was the Republicans who freed the slaves and the Democrats who started the Civil War because they knew Lincoln was opposed to slavery. Facts don’t matter anymore because they live in a fantasy world.
I’m brown. My family are immigrants. The truth does not offend me.
In fact, Matt speaking out about this and setting the record straight, delights me.
Facts are fine.
Obvious, patronising fantasies, on the other hand, are insulting and degrading.
