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- stonebear, on 11/25/2008, -0/+1Thanksgiving is not Columbus Day.
I feel bad when I think about how things were in the past, but I can't do anything about it, and so I have to let go of those feelings. While I accept the truth about them, the crimes of my ancestors are not my responsibility, and I refuse to bear the burden of them. I think all the native blood crying out from soil of this land requires is that the truth be told to the grandchildren of all those involved in the struggle for conquest, and that justice and mercy be done in their lives because of it. That truth is being told, and the dead do not profit from vengeance.
Though I have put away the propaganda I was taught about American history as a child, I never-the-less continue to celebrate Thanksgiving. When I do so, I am giving thanks for the good things in my life. I cannot help that some of them are the result of an ancient war of conquest. Though I'm aware of the political and social realities that existed at the first Thanksgiving, I choose to contemplate the nobility of the human spirit that was present there as well, and it was present, as the colonists survived a terrible ordeal with their faith intact, and the natives showed compassion for an enemy rendered completely at their mercy by hardship. Even though it led to their downfall, it was a beautiful thing to do, and, as far as humanity is concerned; it was the right thing to do.
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