happy thanksgiving ... a funny and sadistic, yet telling clip

Wednesday Addams: "Wait, we can not break bread with you. You have taken the land which is rightfully ours. Years from now my people will be forced to live in mobile homes on reservations. Your people will wear cardigans, and drink highballs. We will sell our bracelets by the road sides, and you will play golf. My people will have pain and degradation. Your people will have stick shifts. The gods of my tribe have spoken. They said do not trust the pilgrims. And especially do not trust Sarah Miller. For all these reasons I have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground."



my Mistress has very strong feelings when it comes to the reasons for not celebrating the thanksgiving holiday, and i am inclined to agree with Her. it is a celebration which is jaded in that it glorifies the disenfranchising and subjectification of one culture of people over the other.

let U/us remember that this country was not originally ours, but that which belonged to the native americans whom W/we uprooted with great force and corraled on reservations and forced them to adapt and learn O/our language, culture and customs. history may of certainly been portrayed and recorded differently had the native americans risen up, rebelled and refused to help the pilgrims.

with that in mind, have a thoughtful, thanksgiving which reflects on the contributions of both western europeans and native americans alike.