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November 20, 2007

The bitter dregs of Thanksgiving

Least you think there is at least one innocent holiday, a holiday with one foot in history, nominally tied to a singular event and another in the present having been brought down through the years into a time of celebrating family gatherings, then think again

SEATTLE – A letter from the Seattle School District is raising some eyebrows about Thanksgiving and how it should be handled in the classroom.

The letter tells school district staff that the holiday is seen by many Native Americans as a "time of mourning." [...]

For the past three years, the Seattle School District has sent a letter to teachers and staff, telling them "Thanksgiving can be a difficult time for many native students." [...]

This year's letter references a Native American historical website that outlines what it calls myths about Thanksgiving.

Myth number 11 – Thanksgiving is a happy time.

So when your child brings home a paper turkey made out of a paper plate and construction paper feathers, slap that puppy right out of his/her hands and get about instilling some progressive, racialist guilt about living on stolen land.

Posted by Darleen at November 20, 2007 12:34 PM

Comments

The moral of the story: Home school your children.

Posted by: John at November 21, 2007 03:23 PM

I saw this on O'Reilly Factor. Pathetic.

In any case, I came over to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Americaneocon at November 21, 2007 08:51 PM

Yes, most native Americans aren't very enthusiastic about Thanksgivng. Can't say I blame them all that much, given the way they've been treated all these years.

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By the way, what's with FNC and school districts? Damned near every Fox program every day has something about a school district. Something FNC doesn't like. Yet so far as I know, nobody at Fox either resides, votes or pays taxes in the particular school districts appearing on the particular Fox segment.

Of course, you used to read the same sort of thing in local newspapers. Every editor of every newspaper in the country often thought it could do a better job of running the local school district than those actually charged with running it. But at least the local editor of the newspaper actually had the right to vote in a local school board election. Or at least paid taxes there. Not so the Fox Noise airheads.

The arrogance (and ignorance) of people like Bill O' Reilly and Brit Hume and the rest of that crew at Fox, boggles minds.

Posted by: Carl W. Goss at November 26, 2007 08:53 AM

Fox news knows that getting rubes outraged over non-issues is good for ratings.

Posted by: Josh at November 26, 2007 09:55 AM