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Thanksgiving
A reddit thread today made me stop and think there really needs to be some kind of grim action movie called JAMESTOWN, taglines including "where it all began" and "forget what you were told in school". It would show the terror of crossing the Atlantic in tiny wooden boats to an unknown shore, the kinds of desperate, stupid, or insane people who would take that bet, the inevitable and understandable Indian attacks, the disease, the starvation, the cannibalism, the arrival of the tobacco brides, the beginning of chattel slavery. Of course the only possible plot I can imagine would be the plucky orphan trying like hell to survive and get on the next boat home.
Pretty certain this would be loudly denounced as anti-American and unpatriotic from certain circles. But it is obvious why schools and society focus on the Mayflower and Plymouth, because who wants to try to explain that shit to a fourth grader?
Has anyone ever considered that maybe the natives saw that, while America is a heathen nation of godless yokels, the white folk provided hot water and actual houses while the Hawaiian gods only gave canniblism and volcanoes.
Its only democratic when people make the choice you want them to make.
“They took our land, they imprisoned our queen, they banned our language, they forcibly made us a colony of the United States. America says they are democratic, that is a lie! They have never been democratic with Native people! They have never been democratic with Indians! They have never been democratic with Hawaiians!”
ur a piece of racist shit lmao
Go to Hawaii and see how many people are morbidly obese and waiting in line for welfare.
Whatever you may think of the heathens of the United States, no one can ever say that America did not give people the freedom to choose their poisons.
HATRED, FROM MY FOES;
VENOM, DESPISED OF BEASTS;
SALT, FOR MY TASTING;
“They took our land, they imprisoned our queen, they banned our language, they forcibly made us a colony of the United States. America says they are democratic, that is a lie! They have never been democratic with Native people! They have never been democratic with Indians! They have never been democratic with Hawaiians!”