Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
This is a legitimate question. According to the New York Times’ 1619 Project, according to what is taught in US universities and public schools, and according to what the American left and those influenced by them believe, to celebrate Thanksgiving is to celebrate the racism of white supremacy. As this belief is growing and not shrinking, how much longer before Thanksgiving becomes a day of atonement for racist sins?
Erasing national holidays is a way of erasing a culture. As Thanksgiving grows increasingly offensive to people of color, as Easter, once a Christian celebration of the Resurrection, disappears into baskets of candy for children, and as the celebration of Christmas is increasingly confined to the home, the three major holidays in the United States rot away, leaving the culture unsupported by public celebrations.
It is the total failure of the American intellectual class not to see this.
The same cultural deracination or dissolution is occurring in Great Britain. A recent poll found that almost half of young British see their country as “structurally racist,” and think their country was founded on racism. 38 percent want Churchill’s statue removed from Parliament Square. Six in ten school graduates say they were taught critical race theory. British youth are also showing growing alienation from free speech, with 29 per cent of 18 to 24-year-olds saying that JK Rowling should be dropped by her publishers because of her views toward transgendered people. It was left to an immigrant-invader, Dr Samir Shah, to stand up for British values such as free speech, tolerance, debate, and democracy: What British schools are teaching, she said, “runs against many Enlightenment values,” leading to a “world in which tolerance is being replaced by intolerance and a fear of speaking one’s mind.”
Does it strike you as odd that Samir Shah, a member of the British Government’s Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities, has more appreciation for a society based in civil liberty than many a white liberal British ethnic don at Oxford and Cambridge? Whereas the argument is powerful that a nation, as distinct from a geographical entity, such as an empire, can be based only in ethnic and cultural homogeneity, I continually encounter immigrant-invaders who have more commitment to the civil liberty guaranteed by the US Constitution than do white American liberals. For many American white liberals, civil liberty means abortion (murder), oppression and censorship of views of which liberals disapprove, prosecution of politicians, such as Trump, of whom liberals disapprove, and misinterpretation and reinterpretation of the US Constitution to support their liberal-left agendas. Many American white liberals and it seems every member of the Woke left have no qualms about stuffing a gage in our mouths. But firebrand immigrant-invaders, such as Ilhan Omar and Ocasio-Cortez, don’t want gags in their mouths.
Perhaps we do need a replacement–a replacement of all white liberals and all white Woke leftists. Certainly, civil liberty and civility have no future in their hands.
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Happy International Day of Elimination of violence against women !
Aka Black Eyed Suzie Day
As long as America is still a Christian Nation, which due to foreign invasion on a biblical scale…maybe not much longer.
Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789
By the President of the United States of America, a Proclamation.
Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be– That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks–for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation–for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war–for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed–for the peaceable and rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted–for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been pleased to confer upon us.
and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions– to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually–to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed–to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as have shewn kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace, and concord–To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the encrease of science among them and us–and generally to grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone knows to be best.
Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day of October in the year of our Lord 1789.
Go: Washington
Washington issued a proclamation on October 3, 1789, designating Thursday, November 26 as a national day of thanks. In his proclamation, Washington declared that the necessity for such a day sprung from the Almighty’s care of Americans prior to the Revolution, assistance to them in achieving independence, and help in establishing the constitutional government.
“It is the total failure of the American intellectual class not to see this”.
Surely, by now, @ least a dozen people KNOW that ‘The Pilgrims’ were Not noted for their navigational skills/acumen. (A ‘Storm’ blew them off course of their intended target. But of course.)
AND,
it was the first noted instance of the abject FAILURE of socialism/communism/whatever in THIS Countryit was the beginning of the ‘Saving of the Savages’. Ultimately culminating in.. ‘legalized’ access to gambling, alcohol, drugs, etc.“Come one, come ALL! THIS Way to the Egress!”
‘Thanksgiving’ going away anytime soon? ( Other than the lack of food/water, shelter, Electricity, Etc.)
THINK of The MONEY! In Whatever Form.
Sure ‘IT’ (International Thanksgiving) is being ‘polished up’ as we set here scratching our heads. It will just be Re-Worded. “Gonna get it
RightCorrect. This Time.”“For the Common Good”. And “The Children”
Best Spend Your remaining time getting acquainted with The Bible. ’bout the ONLY thing that TRULY ‘makes Sense’. IS ‘Logical’.
P.S. Don’t forget to VOTE. Harder!
It’s Your ‘Patriotic Duty’.
Funding for the NWO, Great Reset comes from disappearing of $20 billion weekly from FRBNY’s exclusive handling of auction accounts of Treasury securities.
Ref.
THIS IS OUR BANKING SYSTEM.
Could care less one way or another. Really. Do we really need one stinkin’ day to remind us to be thankful as opposed to, you know, making a thankful heart part of your every day way of life?
I would like to see a Gen. George Custer day instead. One day a year you get together with people you don’t like (just like Thanksgiving) except you get to kill them (like that “Purge” movie).
Hopefully, the “vaccine” and “boosters” will take care of them soon enough.
It will always be a holiday in my house, who gives a shit what the nation of mentally deranged liberal f*cktards thinks?
There is another reason for the assault on history. In the past our ancestors did great things. Today we do not do great things. That makes people feel bad. So they tear down the past, minimize the accomplishments of our ancestors, in order to not feel so bad. In other words the assault on our history is a product of the green monster, jealousy!
There is an inverse reaction to prosperity and thankfulness. The closer someone is to poverty, the more they appreciate what they get. People who are prosperous just think that is normal, and that they really have nothing to be thankful for…..