The Social Justice Warriors Eat a Turkey
We aren't following our usual Black Friday tradition of going hiking, because there's a foot of snow on the ground and S is 8 months pregnant. Instead we're following our new Black Friday tradition of hanging around the house and writing and yakking and maybe playing chess if we feel really ambitious. But not acting smug about it, because this
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Indeed, that was uncomfortable but entirely unsurprising reading. Simply the line "Thanksgiving promotions are about necessities that are marked down." is somewhat chilling in and of itself.
I'd somehow gotten it into my head that, in the decades since I was in elementary school, most places had picked up a clue and stopped doing that. Apparently not.Dear gods, I had no idea that sort of nonsense didn't end 25-30 years ago. I haven't asked either of my two partners (who are both somewhat younger than me) about whether they had those sorts of activities in their schools. Mine most definitely did, but Northern VA schools in the early 70s had more than their share of serious problems with all manner of racial and gender attitudes. I'm hoping that all that is over now, and strongly suspect it is in more progressive states, but fear that in the scarier parts of the US, construction paper "Indian headdresses" are still being made ( ... )
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[A]ccording to the manner of the Indians, we manured our ground with herrings [so] we had a good increase of Indian corn
Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, among other recreations, we exercised our arms, many of the Indians coming among us, and among the rest their greatest king, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought to the plantation
Your loving friend,
E. W.
-- Plymouth Colony leader Edward Winslow, 1621
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By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATION
to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER,
NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and assign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; [….]
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine.
(signed) G. Washington
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