Native Americans Suffer, Americans Shop

beenwize
beenwize Members Posts: 2,024 ✭✭
edited November 2011 in R & R (Religion and Race)
How do white ppl live with themselves knowing that they stole this land from Native American Indians and built this country off the blood of blacks? Where is the compassion for cultures of black & brown ppl around the world that u have destroyed?

Why do people continue to celebrate "Thanksgiving Day" even though it was found on the slaughter of native americans?

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  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Sickening isn't it? The sad reality is that White people years ago viewed Native Americans as subhumans, and feel no remorse for the theft of an entire continent. Even now, I doubt most whites are truly sorry for what happened. What happened to Native AMericans at the hands of white people is the greatest atrocity the world has ever seen. Anyway.....

    Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!

    sarcasm over/
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Columbus Day being celebrated as a national holiday, on top of the statues of Columbus all over America, should tell you everything you need to know about how most Americans view Native Americans. I'll watch the video now

    Edit:: Interesting and sad video, he dissed Obama quite a bit
  • TheIraq
    TheIraq Members Posts: 5,527 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    So does this mean yall arent gonna make a plate and eat tomorrow?
  • JadaRoss
    JadaRoss Members Posts: 6,791 ✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Thanksgiving we're celebrating taking the indians land and killing them
  • beenwize
    beenwize Members Posts: 2,024 ✭✭
    edited November 2011
    TheIraq wrote: »
    So does this mean yall arent gonna make a plate and eat tomorrow?

    Why celebrate the genocide of a people?


    William B. Newell, a Penobscot Indian and former chairman of the Anthropology department at the University of Connecticut, says that the first official Thanksgiving Day celebrated the massacre of 700 Indian men, women and children during one of their religious ceremonies. "Thanksgiving Day" was first proclaimed by the Governor of the then Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to commemorate the massacre of 700 men, women and children who were celebrating their annual Green Corn Dance...Thanksgiving Day to the, "in their own house", Newell stated.
    "Gathered in this place of meeting, they were attacked by mercenaries and English and Dutch. The Indians were ordered from the building and as they came forth were shot down, The rest were burned alive in the building
    The very next day the governor declared a Thanksgiving Day.....For the next 100 years, every Thanksgiving Day ordained by a Governor was in honor of the ? victory, thinking ? that the battle had been won."

    In June 1637 John Underhill slaughtered a pequot village in just the manner described above. Narranganset Indians were used as the mercenaries. Governor John Endicott of the Massachusetts Bay Colony proclaimed the pequot war. A pequot chief of sachem named sassacus warred against the Dutch in 1633 over the death of his father. The pequot made no distinction between the Dutch and the English. The Underhill massacre was witnessed and documented by William Branford and an engraving was made illustration the massacre.

    The Jamestown Colony may be the source for the tradition of Indians under the leadership of Powhaton joining with early settlers for a dinner and helping those settlers through the winter. There were no pilgrims of puritans at Jamestown, however. The present Thanksgiving may therefore be a mixture of the tradition of the Jamestown dinner and the commemoration of the Pequot massacre.

    The celebration of Thanksgiving as an official holiday possibly roots in the Pequot massacre, while the imagery is of Jamestown with pilgrims, images misused.
  • beenwize
    beenwize Members Posts: 2,024 ✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Sickening isn't it? The sad reality is that White people years ago viewed Native Americans as subhumans, and feel no remorse for the theft of an entire continent. Even now, I doubt most whites are truly sorry for what happened. What happened to Native AMericans at the hands of white people is the greatest atrocity the world has ever seen. Anyway.....

    Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!!

    sarcasm over/

    yea, truth is most of them don't care about anybody except themselves.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Does Any one know of any segment of Black America, being allowed this form of reparations?

    Most Native Americans aren't reaping the benefits of casino money. Just like most Americans aren't benefitting from Apple and Microsoft generating hundreds of billions per year, so let's look at things in perspective. There is still a lot of poverty in Native American areas, they've been ? over worst than Blacks have.
  • VulcanRaven
    VulcanRaven Members Posts: 18,859 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    TheIraq wrote: »
    So does this mean yall arent gonna make a plate and eat tomorrow?

    ? Im digging in tomorrow.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    TheIraq wrote: »
    So does this mean yall arent gonna make a plate and eat tomorrow?

    I'm gonna eat with my family like most will, but I will bear in mind the tragedy of the holiday. It's a day of mourning for Native Americans, but as a Black man I can still sympathize. Besides, my mom cooks a hell of a turkey.
  • kingblaze84
    kingblaze84 Members Posts: 14,288 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November 2011
    Young-Ice wrote: »
    reminds me of 4:20

    in HS all my friends used to celebrate that ? getting the highest they'd ever been every time

    i couldnt do that ? knowing it was hitlers birthday
    celebrated my last 4:20 in 08

    ? ? !
    (and most other white people too!)

    Aw man.......I can't celebrate anything these things = (

    Every damn holiday has a ? catch smh