Enjoy Thanksgiving?

For John, BLUF:  I intend to enjoy Thanksgiving and to tdhank Good that I am lucky enough to live in the United States of America.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Don’t Allow Wokism To Ruin Thanksgiving

From The Lid Blog, by Blogger Jeff Dunetz, 21 November 2022.

Here is the lede plus two:

The Pilgrims celebrated the “First Thanksgiving” after their first harvest in the New World in October 1621.  This feast lasted three days, and—as accounted by attendee Edward Winslow, it was attended by 90 Native Americans and 53 Pilgrims.

The 2022 celebration is the 401st anniversary of the very first Thanksgiving.  Abe Lincoln made Thanksgiving a national holiday.  When Lincoln declared it a national holiday celebrated on November 26, it superseded Evacuation Day held on November 25, commemorating the British withdrawal from the United States after the American Revolution.

Woke America, however, tells us not to enjoy the day.  They say Thanksgiving is a bad day, a celebration of genocide.  However, some Woke people believe we should have kept Evacuation Day because Thanksgiving is inherently racist and evil.

Is there nothing good in our past, which we can celebrate?  The New York Times Writer, Nikole Hannah-Jones thinks the American Revolution is all about slavery.  There are those who take no pleasure in what Capitalism or Democracy have accomplished in the last 200 years, seeing it instead as exploitation by the wealthy and strong.

Is this holiday to be a day of regret and repentence?  Some would seem to think so.  However, aside from the fact that I disagree with the idea of regret and repentence, there is the question of what would be the course ahead if we (the descendents of those at the first Thanksgiving, 400 years ago, and we the descendents of subsequent immigrants) did repent, what would we do?  Should all of us immigrants return to the nations from which we came?  If we do, what do we do with the nuclear weapons we developed and produced?  What about Wall Street?  The gold in Fort Knox?  Will we be welcomed back, and if not, then what?  What do the woke suggest?

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff