I am an ASL user. I dont know if others understand this youtube. Does this have CC? i am not good at looking for CC.
Yes it is captioned at YouTube. Accurately.
I mentioned in the "mainstream ruined..." thread that I was lied to via revisionist history, that was convenient and put the victors in a positive light (I wonder how many times this has happened, but I won't list examples for fear of locking up this thread).
Great resource, i think lots of teachers need to ask parents for their permission that they can teach small kids that is good start, and once the kids become older, and would have celebration in a different way or something like that.
same deal for black history and other history too.
how ironic, lots of people who have bad experiences with thanskgiving due to conflicting with relatives or family and end up don't talk to each other for years. oh well
Not me. I love my family and I am going to have a great time with them this week and this weekend.
Anyway-- No matter what that video said, I am not going to stop traditional celebration simply because they hate Thanksgiving or something. I am not going to stop eating turkeys in order to be vegan or whatever they hate something. Frankly, it's stupid to make a suggestion that Pilgrims are better off dead or being not helped or whatever, due to their dark past. Because if they do, my other friends and a few of my relatives would not be here, anyway... So, I am not going to waste my time to watch it whole, considering this video is similar what another people who dislike/hate Thanksgiving and encourage us to stop celebrating the holiday.
They are no different who scream and bitch about Christmas. Jeez.[/b[
I agree with what the video was about and why the OP put it up.
For me, I can still enjoy family time but also remember that much of what they taught us in school about the Thanksgiving "story" and all the rest of it is BS.
There was genocide committed against Native peoples in the name of the story that we are fed in the U.S, and the images and ways things are still commercially done in reference to Thanksgiving perpetuate the myths.
So I think about all that when I eat my meal and spend time with my family, and it influences how or what I buy this time of year in particular.
For me as a Jew, to think about this and see how I not perpetuate the myths, is part of tikkun olam- commonly thought of as "repair of the world" in the liberal branches of Judaism.
I am Jewish too and this is a big reason I have a hard time celebrating a holiday that has to do with the genocide committed against Native peoples. It would be like me celebrating the Holocaust as a Holiday .
So, the woman at the end of the 1991 segment of the video suggests that little kids no longer dress up like Pilgrims, Native Americans, and turkeys and reenact the traditional pageant but instead enslave, rape, and kill each other? That's craziness.
Thanksgiving Day does NOT celebrate slavery, genocide, racism, etc. It is a day to specifically be thankful to God for His provision, whatever that may be for the individual giving thanks. It also represents how, as a nation, we are thankful for our existence and lives here in America.
No one is forced to be thankful. If you truly believe that you have absolutely nothing for which to be thankful you can certainly stay home and mourn your woeful existence and feed your bitterness rather than your tummy.
If you want to blame every wrongful thing that any white person ever did to any non-white person in the Western Hemisphere on the small group of people who arrived on the Mayflower, then you are not being any more honest about history than those you accuse of falsifying the story.
BTW, what are these "banned" books that they refer to on the video? Banned by whom? If they are banned, how is it the people on the video know about them?
We studied about the atrocities done to American Indians when I was in public school, at least in the 1960's, so it's not exactly a news bulletin for today. It just seems to have spread to blame every Pilgrim for every bad thing that ever happened, including events that happened before they even landed at Plymouth.
BTW, in that painting they show of the first thanksgiving day, I don't see it as portraying the natives in a bad light. They appear to be civil and dressed in their celebratory finery. Notice that the white woman Pilgrim is bending down to serve the native group, not the other way around. Of course, since no one was there to take pictures, we really don't know how the event looked, so we can't use any picture to make a judgment one way or the other.