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Happy Thanksgiving 🙌

11.27.2015

There’s this segment on the Adams’ Family take on Thanksgiving day that I highly recommend.

There’s a Thanksgiving play for all the wealthy whites whose children play lead roles of pilgrims. The script is incredibly biased and the pilgrims make derogatory jokes and look down on the Native Americans, calling them “savages” and “uneducated”.

Wednesday plays the role of the head Native American princess and just when it seems like they’ll be sitting down with the pilgrims to enjoy a feast, Wednesday forgoes the script and tells it like it really is. How the pilgrims stole their land and Native American livelihood was reduced to scraps on the roadside. Wednesday refuses to accept Sarah Miller’s (the lead part played by a rich, white girl) grace and instead wages war on the encampment with her fellow Native Americans because of the future that will come.

In the end, Sarah Miller becomes the “turkey” and is tied to a totem, ready to be burned at the stake. Wednesday lights a match and smiles at just revenge.

The episode about how privileged whites revel in the Thanksgiving holiday and traditions, but forget that they themselves have attributed to forcing Native American tribes to dismal reservations and low standards of living. Native Americans have essentially become fallen and forgotten communities although they were the ones that helped and ensured the survival of the pilgrims.

In light of Thanksgiving, we should not give thanks to Christopher Columbus, but instead to the Native American communities. It is thanks to them, that we are able to be here and survive today. We should show our gratitude to them in better ways than we have in the last 500 years.