Thanksgiving -- Celebrating American Genocide?
[Kenyatta Kenyatta reports the true history of Thanksgiving below. For more details see:
http://www.dickshovel.com/peq.html
If one really examines the 17th century Anglo invasion of North America, one discovers attitudes towards indigenous inhabitants that still lingered in our children's sayings in my day -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian!" Lest I seem prejudiced here, some of my ancestors were apparently among those early Puritans and (hopefully) a few were also native Americans! Whatever -- the lesson to be voiced on Thanksgiving is NEVER AGAIN -- American depredations on fellow humans viewed somehow as less than persons and whose properties are to be brutally appropriated. Consider the perverse American religious ideology that inspired this cruel invasion called "Manifest Destiny" -- still fueling our current mad intrusion into the Middle East?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny
It is all too true to type that Cheney is this very day celebrating Thanksgiving in Baghdad! Ed Kent]
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From: "Kenyatta Kenyatta"
Subject: THE REAL HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING
A GLIMSE OF THE REAL HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING
..
With Bible passages in their hands to justify their every move, those
referred to as "Puritans" began their march inland from the seaside communities. Joined by British settlers, they seized land, took the strong and young Natives as slaves to work the land, and killed the rest.
When they reached the Connecticut Valley around 1633, they met a different type of force. The Pequot Nation, very large and very powerful, had never entered into a peace treaty as had other New England Native nations. When 2 slave raiders were killed by resisting Natives, the Puritans demanded that the killers be turned over. The Pequot refused. What followed was the Pequot War, the bloodiest of the Native wars in the northeast.
Because of the lack of fighting experience, and the vast numbers of the
fierce Pequot warriors, Commander John Mason elected not to stage an open battle. Instead, the Pequot were attacked, one village at a time, in the hours before dawn. Each village was set on fire with its sleeping Natives burned alive. Women and children over 14 were captured to be sold as slaves; other survivors were massacred. Many buried in mass graves, many still alive.
The Natives were sold into slavery in The West Indies, the Azures, Spain, Algiers and England; everywhere the Puritan merchants traded. The slave trade was so lucrative that boatloads of 500 at a time left the harbors of New England.
In 1641, the Dutch governor of Manhattan offered the first scalp bounty; a common practice in many European countries. This was broadened by the
Puritans to include a bounty for Natives fit to be sold for slavery. The
Dutch and Puritans joined forces to exterminate all Natives from New
England, and village after village fell.
Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches of Manhattan announced a day of
"thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. This was
Thanksgiving. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were
kicked through the streets of Manhattan like soccer balls.
The killing took on a frenzy, with days of thanksgiving being held after
each successful massacre. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape.
Their chief was beheaded, and his head placed on a pole in Plymouth,
Massachusetts -- where it remained for 24 years. Each town held thanksgiving days to celebrate their own victories over the Natives until it became clear that there needed to be an order to these special occasions. It was George Washington who finally brought a system and a schedule to thanksgiving when he declared one day to be celebrated across the nation as Thanksgiving Day.
By this time the Atlantic Slave trade was in full swing as the most
ruthless, vicious devils on the planet set out to destroy two nations
simultaneously, the Afrikan and Indigenous people of the earth.
It was Abraham Lincoln who decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day and at the same time he was ordering troops to march against the Sioux in Minnesota ..... and subsequently ordered 38 Santee Sioux hung on christmas Eve for leaving the reservation in search of food...the promised supplies having never materialized)
Let's put this day called thanksgiving in context. For ourselves, our
families and especially the coming generation. Teach them the truth. It
will set them free in a way that we in this present generation have not
yet been able to accomplish because of compromise.
Join me in a day of fasting meditation and prayer. Let us use this day as a time to plan our continued strategies for struggle, and to remember the ancestors, both AfriKan and Native Amerikkan who perished in the Maafa of these two proud Nations.
Let us move to the next level, seeking to find a way to pry away from
eurocentric thought and behavior and go back home to our true selves, our best selves, your AFRIKAN SELF!!
Away with european holidays, no matter how convenient they may be. No
matter how much you like turkey and stuffing. No matter how good it feels to hang out with the family. Eat turkey on another day. Come together with family on other days and lets stop letting this (eurocentric) society dictate and dupe us into the celebration of its sickness.
If you can feel me raise you fist in the air!!!
Brother Kenyatta
If you can't,,,,,,,,,,,,,,eat turkey!
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"Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths; let no
influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and time of war.
Hear all but attend only to that which concerns you," Marcus Garvey
http://www.theblacklist.net
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
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http://www.dickshovel.com/peq.html
If one really examines the 17th century Anglo invasion of North America, one discovers attitudes towards indigenous inhabitants that still lingered in our children's sayings in my day -- "The only good Indian is a dead Indian!" Lest I seem prejudiced here, some of my ancestors were apparently among those early Puritans and (hopefully) a few were also native Americans! Whatever -- the lesson to be voiced on Thanksgiving is NEVER AGAIN -- American depredations on fellow humans viewed somehow as less than persons and whose properties are to be brutally appropriated. Consider the perverse American religious ideology that inspired this cruel invasion called "Manifest Destiny" -- still fueling our current mad intrusion into the Middle East?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_Destiny
It is all too true to type that Cheney is this very day celebrating Thanksgiving in Baghdad! Ed Kent]
...........................
From: "Kenyatta Kenyatta"
Subject: THE REAL HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING
A GLIMSE OF THE REAL HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING
..
With Bible passages in their hands to justify their every move, those
referred to as "Puritans" began their march inland from the seaside communities. Joined by British settlers, they seized land, took the strong and young Natives as slaves to work the land, and killed the rest.
When they reached the Connecticut Valley around 1633, they met a different type of force. The Pequot Nation, very large and very powerful, had never entered into a peace treaty as had other New England Native nations. When 2 slave raiders were killed by resisting Natives, the Puritans demanded that the killers be turned over. The Pequot refused. What followed was the Pequot War, the bloodiest of the Native wars in the northeast.
Because of the lack of fighting experience, and the vast numbers of the
fierce Pequot warriors, Commander John Mason elected not to stage an open battle. Instead, the Pequot were attacked, one village at a time, in the hours before dawn. Each village was set on fire with its sleeping Natives burned alive. Women and children over 14 were captured to be sold as slaves; other survivors were massacred. Many buried in mass graves, many still alive.
The Natives were sold into slavery in The West Indies, the Azures, Spain, Algiers and England; everywhere the Puritan merchants traded. The slave trade was so lucrative that boatloads of 500 at a time left the harbors of New England.
In 1641, the Dutch governor of Manhattan offered the first scalp bounty; a common practice in many European countries. This was broadened by the
Puritans to include a bounty for Natives fit to be sold for slavery. The
Dutch and Puritans joined forces to exterminate all Natives from New
England, and village after village fell.
Following an especially successful raid against the Pequot in what is now Stamford, Connecticut, the churches of Manhattan announced a day of
"thanksgiving" to celebrate victory over the heathen savages. This was
Thanksgiving. During the feasting, the hacked off heads of Natives were
kicked through the streets of Manhattan like soccer balls.
The killing took on a frenzy, with days of thanksgiving being held after
each successful massacre. Even the friendly Wampanoag did not escape.
Their chief was beheaded, and his head placed on a pole in Plymouth,
Massachusetts -- where it remained for 24 years. Each town held thanksgiving days to celebrate their own victories over the Natives until it became clear that there needed to be an order to these special occasions. It was George Washington who finally brought a system and a schedule to thanksgiving when he declared one day to be celebrated across the nation as Thanksgiving Day.
By this time the Atlantic Slave trade was in full swing as the most
ruthless, vicious devils on the planet set out to destroy two nations
simultaneously, the Afrikan and Indigenous people of the earth.
It was Abraham Lincoln who decreed Thanksgiving Day to be a legal national holiday during the Civil War -- on the same day and at the same time he was ordering troops to march against the Sioux in Minnesota ..... and subsequently ordered 38 Santee Sioux hung on christmas Eve for leaving the reservation in search of food...the promised supplies having never materialized)
Let's put this day called thanksgiving in context. For ourselves, our
families and especially the coming generation. Teach them the truth. It
will set them free in a way that we in this present generation have not
yet been able to accomplish because of compromise.
Join me in a day of fasting meditation and prayer. Let us use this day as a time to plan our continued strategies for struggle, and to remember the ancestors, both AfriKan and Native Amerikkan who perished in the Maafa of these two proud Nations.
Let us move to the next level, seeking to find a way to pry away from
eurocentric thought and behavior and go back home to our true selves, our best selves, your AFRIKAN SELF!!
Away with european holidays, no matter how convenient they may be. No
matter how much you like turkey and stuffing. No matter how good it feels to hang out with the family. Eat turkey on another day. Come together with family on other days and lets stop letting this (eurocentric) society dictate and dupe us into the celebration of its sickness.
If you can feel me raise you fist in the air!!!
Brother Kenyatta
If you can't,,,,,,,,,,,,,,eat turkey!
=====
"Let no voice but your own speak to you from the depths; let no
influence but your own rouse you in time of peace and time of war.
Hear all but attend only to that which concerns you," Marcus Garvey
http://www.theblacklist.net
--
"A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy cited by Machiavelli)
--
Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies]
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts
http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/
http://www.bloggernews.net
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