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Kael User ID: 1451069 Syria 11/15/2011 07:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanksgiving = Sweeping The Ugly Truth Under the Rug. Quoting: Lisa*Lisa The atrocities that were done against the Indian people were horrific and cruel. Atleast recognize the truth about this "holiday". To deny it is another insult to the Indians that were slaughtered and forced out of their homes and their land. They were kicked out of the land that was theirs for hundreds of years, sent away on a "trail of tears" to unknown territory where many died on the way, and many others died when they got there from diseases and starvation. It never should have happened. Jesus warned the Indians of the white man that would come with "sticks that killed from a distance". He cried when He told them about what white man would do to them because He knew! He knew about the murders, the atrocities that white man was going to do to the Indian people! He knew that their land would be stolen from them, many would die and life would never be the same for them again! Yet, this lie of thanksgiving goes on, like nothing ever happened. In schools, children dress up like pilgrims and indians..and everybody is happy.....but nobody mentions the death and horror that really occurred. How would the Jewish people feel if nobody ever acknowledged the holocaust? How would the Christians feel if nobody acknowledged our people being fed to the lions? How would Veterans feel if nobody remembered the vets that died in the wars? It happened.......and it's a sad and sorry part of our history that just gets swept under the rug like it never even happened. If people want to celebrate "thanksgiving", then it should be a memorial for all of the Indians that were murdered and abused at the hands of white man because that's the truth, that's honest and that's the right thing to do. "Some aspects of the conventional story are true enough. But it's also true that by 1637 Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop was proclaiming a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children, part of the long and bloody process of opening up additional land to the English invaders. The pattern would repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of American Indians had been exterminated and the rest were left to assimilate into white society or die off on reservations, out of the view of polite society. Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. The first president, George Washington, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape." Thomas Jefferson” president #3 and author of the Declaration of Independence, which refers to Indians as the "merciless Indian Savages" — was known to romanticize Indians and their culture, but that didn't stop him in 1807 from writing to his secretary of war that in a coming conflict with certain tribes, "[W]e shall destroy all of them." [link to www.tooter4kids.com] [link to salon.glenrose.net] True "Thou we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven that which we are, we are. One equal temper of heroic hearts made weak by time and fate but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find and not to yield" |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 3840599 United States 11/15/2011 07:39 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | are you a mormon lisa? because you have cited their beliefs. do you believe the angel moroni was sent by God? if you do then you best go convert to mormonism pronto. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3840599 if not... then the angel was of satan and should be rejected. there is no gray here honey. make a stand lisa... no more games. No, I am not a Mormom, I've never read any of their publications. I'm a Christian and don't belong to any church or group. I use my own brain to think and I let the Holy Spirit teach me truth. So, you hate mormons too? That's a pity. i hate anything that satan has put into this world. i dont hate the people that have been deceived. nice try lisa... putting words in peoples' mouths and then claiming you are led by the Holy spirit. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 3840599 United States 11/15/2011 07:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lisa... ur Jesus visited the indians information comes from mormonism... u may want to check this out: [link to www.jesus-is-savior.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 2827602 United States 11/15/2011 07:47 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Beyond that; I played NO part in the atrocities that happened. I cannot change what happened centuries ago... Sorry Indians, I like my turkey. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1106916 United States 11/15/2011 07:51 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | lisa... ur Jesus visited the indians information comes from mormonism... u may want to check this out: Quoting: Anonymous Coward 3840599 [link to www.jesus-is-savior.com] No, it comes straight from the american indian's mouths. The mormons just happen to believe them, and so do I. Do a little research next time and stop hating on people who are different then you. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 4453934 United States 11/15/2011 07:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Jesus >physically> never traveled past a few spots in the middle east. The rest is all a lie If Jesus did warm the American Indians > it was in the spirit. The American Indians knew what was coming ..their spiritual leaders "saw" the white devils years before the first Indian wars COrrection: what happened to the American Indians was terrible But learn your TRUE history Many Indian tribes were so warlike they brutalized those other tribes living around them Tecumsa > an early Indian chief tried to warn the Indians and link all the tribes together to fight against the WHite man threat But so many of the tribes were so war like against each other that Tecumsa could never succeed at his task of trying to link all Indians togethte as one Many Indian tribes were so brutal themselves...the white invaders did not want them around Other Indian tribes were not brutal >but the white invaders lumped all INidians into one READ history and READ the Bible |
ossbogosley User ID: 3672761 United States 11/15/2011 07:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I think there is a more relavent glp point in what lisa posted. From her initial post: Jesus warned the Indians of the white man that would come with "sticks that killed from a distance". He cried when He told them about what white man would do to them because He knew! He knew about the murders, the atrocities that white man was going to do to the Indian people! He knew that their land would be stolen from them, many would die and life would never be the same for them again! The point is Jesus was a doomtard. Don't believe anything, only know it. No thanks, I've got enough karma. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 419649 United States 11/15/2011 08:05 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanksgiving = Sweeping The Ugly Truth Under the Rug. Quoting: Lisa*Lisa The atrocities that were done against the Indian people were horrific and cruel. Atleast recognize the truth about this "holiday". To deny it is another insult to the Indians that were slaughtered and forced out of their homes and their land. They were kicked out of the land that was theirs for hundreds of years, sent away on a "trail of tears" to unknown territory where many died on the way, and many others died when they got there from diseases and starvation. It never should have happened. Jesus warned the Indians of the white man that would come with "sticks that killed from a distance". He cried when He told them about what white man would do to them because He knew! He knew about the murders, the atrocities that white man was going to do to the Indian people! He knew that their land would be stolen from them, many would die and life would never be the same for them again! Yet, this lie of thanksgiving goes on, like nothing ever happened. In schools, children dress up like pilgrims and indians..and everybody is happy.....but nobody mentions the death and horror that really occurred. How would the Jewish people feel if nobody ever acknowledged the holocaust? How would the Christians feel if nobody acknowledged our people being fed to the lions? How would Veterans feel if nobody remembered the vets that died in the wars? It happened.......and it's a sad and sorry part of our history that just gets swept under the rug like it never even happened. If people want to celebrate "thanksgiving", then it should be a memorial for all of the Indians that were murdered and abused at the hands of white man because that's the truth, that's honest and that's the right thing to do. "Some aspects of the conventional story are true enough. But it's also true that by 1637 Massachusetts Gov. John Winthrop was proclaiming a thanksgiving for the successful massacre of hundreds of Pequot Indian men, women and children, part of the long and bloody process of opening up additional land to the English invaders. The pattern would repeat itself across the continent until between 95 and 99 percent of American Indians had been exterminated and the rest were left to assimilate into white society or die off on reservations, out of the view of polite society. Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous population) celebrates the beginning of a genocide that was, in fact, blessed by the men we hold up as our heroic founding fathers. The first president, George Washington, in 1783 said he preferred buying Indians' land rather than driving them off it because that was like driving "wild beasts" from the forest. He compared Indians to wolves, "both being beasts of prey, tho' they differ in shape." Thomas Jefferson” president #3 and author of the Declaration of Independence, which refers to Indians as the "merciless Indian Savages" — was known to romanticize Indians and their culture, but that didn't stop him in 1807 from writing to his secretary of war that in a coming conflict with certain tribes, "[W]e shall destroy all of them." [link to www.tooter4kids.com] [link to salon.glenrose.net] crap! the early english colonies were foundering and were helped by the indians... but subsequent european arrivals didn't give a crap about the indians and wanted their land. just like now in modern times.. the euro- mexicans control most of the resources, jobs etc... so the native mexicans flee north for economic reasons to the us |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1547684 United States 11/15/2011 08:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | American Indians were a Warrior Culture, and not all that noble as the history revisionists want us to believe. They relied on stealth and ambush when attacking even innocent people. In other words, they would jump out and cut your throat if they could. Thanksgiving was an attempt at reconciliation, but the other Cutthroats didn't get the memo, so they fucked it up for everyone else, and all got their collective asses handed to them. Yes, fucked up shit was done, but you don't send Mr Milktoast to play nice with blood thirsty killers. Now Lisa Lisa, get your ass to the woods and come back here with some water and sticks; we got a turkey to roast. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1382487 United States 11/15/2011 08:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Go fuck yourself you whiny bitch. I'm so sick of you fucks constantly bitching about this country....for shit that was hundreds of years ago. England? You can STFU too, we won't even get into the shit your country has done. You want to keep bitching about past attroicities against 'minorities'? (which btw, Europeans were the minority in the usa. They were just more advanced. Every walk of nature shows you the strong take over, so don't single out one group) Well, how about MY PEOPLE?!?! Christians were thrown in lion pits just for being Christian. We were hung on crosses. How come no one talks of that? Oh you'd rather pick and choose. Poor Indians, poor black people, but fuck those Christians. Fuck those jewish(s). They're white, so who gives a shit, right? Fuck the Indians. Blame the laws of nature. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 4453934 United States 11/15/2011 08:20 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You must not have a warm family to celebrate Thanksgiving with, Lisa SO, you have to find all the negative in it THanksgiving is also a time to be with family and friends and give thanks for the positives in life. Too bad something negative has to be dug up in everything |
Clownkiller User ID: 5426750 United States 11/15/2011 08:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.wikipedia.org] Quoting: Lisa*Lisa They called it "Indian Removal or Forced Relocation" back then.......today it's called Ethnic Cleaning or Genocide. So you're saying , that the indians never faught and killed each other, for territorial reasons? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1106916 United States 11/15/2011 08:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You must not have a warm family to celebrate Thanksgiving with, Lisa Quoting: Anonymous Coward 4453934 SO, you have to find all the negative in it THanksgiving is also a time to be with family and friends and give thanks for the positives in life. Too bad something negative has to be dug up in everything Actually, I have a beautiful family that I spend quality time with every single day of the year. So, your assumption was a fail. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5424518 United States 11/15/2011 08:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What a load of horsecrap. Most of the "noble" savages, were just that, SAVAGES. Human sacrifice, continual war amongst tribes. They were much like the Canaanites who God judged, and drove out of the land for their sins. He will do the same to the current evil occupants of America. Only we wont be so lucky as to be driven out with gunpowder. We will be vaporized in nuclear holocaust. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 1290518 United States 11/15/2011 08:33 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Thanksgiving a day of giving thanks to God for our country, our families and our lives and prosperity. Eat turkey, play some cards, watch some football, hug the kids, drink some beer, have a good day, take a nap. Thats it, don't think about indians, slaves, sins... there are other 364 days of the year that Americans can beat themselves up about that |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1106916 United States 11/15/2011 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The lie here, is the belief, that all the nations of indians, were peaceful, and never committed atrocities upon one another. Quoting: Clownkiller No, not all were peaceful, but some were. Regardless, that does not justify what was done, not even close. The fact is that they were here first, and they were kicked out of their land. It was theirs and it was because of greed that their land was stolen and they were murdered. Some americans are savages too. Some are, and some aren't. You don't judge a whole nation of people because of the acts of some. |
Hitokiri User ID: 4115741 United States 11/15/2011 08:34 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Honestly, I don't think of the Pilgrims/Indians any longer. I take Thanksgiving as a day to give "Thanks" to the many blessings around me. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 2827602 Beyond that; I played NO part in the atrocities that happened. I cannot change what happened centuries ago... Sorry Indians, I like my turkey. "We learn from history that we learn nothing from history." - George Bernard Shaw |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 1106916 United States 11/15/2011 08:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | You people are all morans - don't mix your cause up with the holiday of Thanksgiving - the tradition started long before the USA or the attempted genocide. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1215807 People like to transend their causes into things they are not- And people like to ignore or dismiss things that make them feel uncomfortable. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1355229 United Kingdom 11/15/2011 08:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Good post. It was an atrocity what we (our forefathers) did to the Native Americans. I have read "The Sand Creek Massacre" and "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee." It was nothing short of genocide. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1826295 To an outsider, USA policies that amount to genocide on foreign soil, continues to this day. What gives? The USA = born under a BAD star, in its current form no long term good can com from the US it has collected some very bad karma on its short journey and is in desperate need for a cleansing, lovely kind people though just very badly led from the get go. |