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moniquill

Annual airing of greviances.

Nov 25, 2010 02:07

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shweta_narayan November 25 2010, 08:28:37 UTC

I hear you, and am with you as far as an outsider can be.

Would it be okay to link to this? Am... still working on understanding when/how speaking up and/or linking is support and when it's adding to the problem (even when my brain is braining. It is currently a turnip.)

moniquill November 25 2010, 08:30:06 UTC

In general, unlocked posts are cool to link and to quote. I probably should get around to putting up a header posts to that effect, as it's come up a lot lately...

shweta_narayan November 25 2010, 09:10:25 UTC

Thank you. linked.

Time to turnip off to bed.

trinker November 25 2010, 09:23:59 UTC

Here because shweta_narayan linked to you...

Wish I'd read your version (Fuck your secular patriotic mythology and revisionist history.) before I flailed in oyceter's DW about my issues re: what I call "the national day of colonial mythology and gluttony". I don't want to derail in your journal, so I'm just leaving breadcrumbs to my flail: http://oyceter.dreamwidth.org/924119.html?view=10460375#cmt10460375

Thanks for this writeup, and for the recent article at Racialicious. Friended so I'll have you on my readinglist.

thatnanda November 25 2010, 15:30:57 UTC

If it's any small consolation (albeit very, very small) one of the books my mother has been using to teach Eddie about Thanksgiving this year speaks directly about slavery, genocide, and the many dirty dealings of the colonists, including, but not limited to, putting people's heads on pikes. One chapter is called, "A Day of Thanksgiving, A Day of Mourning."

wirewalking November 25 2010, 16:10:39 UTC

ooo. Could I maybe have the title of that book?

thatnanda November 26 2010, 17:58:13 UTC

It says:

Discover American History
Cobblestone
"Samoset and Squanto"

wirewalking November 26 2010, 18:01:18 UTC

Awesome, thanks! (I have a preschooler and a deepseated loathing of revisionist history. Not that I'm gonna talk to him about the genocide and heads on pikes just yet, mind, but for future use. Hee.)

jaded_jacqui November 25 2010, 15:50:33 UTC

You can tell that sad dude on the card he can come to my Thanksgiving dinner. I mean, we're just eating for the hell of it anyway, not because we're celebrating anything except the love of gorging.

sanguinity November 25 2010, 19:47:03 UTC

May you have a restful, delicious day, free of other people's fuckery.