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Posted on 11/13/2007 2:09:16 PM PST by Patriot62
Seattle Public Schools has distributed a letter to their teaching staff instructing them to be sensitive to the fact that for many Indian people, “Thanksgiving” is a time of mourning.
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
SAY WHAT????!!!!!
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Myth #2: The people who came across the ocean on the Mayflower were called Pilgrims.
Fact: The Plimoth settlers did not refer to themselves as “Pilgrims.” Pilgrims are people who travel for religious reasons, such as Muslims who make a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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So Muslims are the real Pilgrims.
The settlers in Jamestowne held a Thanksgiving feast a lot earlier than 1621! They just didn’t have as good a PR firm as the folks who later came to Pli-mouth Colony.
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Just when you think you've heard it all, someone, somewhere creates another reason.
I noticed that this is from a unit prepared for 7th graders! They can’t even wait until high school to alienate our children against their traditions.
Never underestimate the stupidity of a liberal.
I mourn for the turkey. (Please pass the gravy...)
“Wouldn’t it be more efficient and logical for the Seattle Public Schools to distribute a letter to their teaching staff to teach the native people (however many that is, I suspect not many) that, “Thanksgiving” is a time of celebration for most Americans?”
A foundation of the liberal mind-set is to flaunt how “progressive” and “open-minded” they are. What better way than to provide a warped viewpoint on Thanksgiving, a time when most Americans embrace the beneficience of being thankful.
Similar “hip” perspectives are tossed in our face regarding patriotism and “religious dogma”.
AMEN! Anyway the biggest turkeys are in Seattle.
It’s a time of lamenting, maybe.
“I can’t believe I ate SO much.”
“What do you mean, there’s no more pumpkin pie?”
FTA:
Using what you know try to guess whether these statements are T (true) or F (false). Circle what you think is the correct answer. We will discuss the correct answers together as a class. You will be graded on your participation, not your answer choices.
Modern education! They don’t even CARE about the correct answer. Participation is the key. THat way, no one can “get” the teacher for presenting erroneous material.
Maize is an ethanol precursor.
Corn? I think corn. LOL. I looked at the reference twice, too. Then smiled at the witticism.
NYS is chock full of towns, counties, and roads with Iroquois Indian names from one end to the other.
Someone needs to get the Seattle schools copies of Mel Gibson’s Apocolyptco and the great Canadian film Black Robe.
There were only 10,000,000 Indians when the whites arrived; in other words, there was plenty of room for everybody. But Indians were in the late Stone Age and Europeans were at the beginning of the industrial revolution. Neither had been through a 1960s style cultural sensitivity phase. Conflict was inevitable. The Indians lost which was probably inevitable also.
But just for the record, at least 90% of the Indians died of disease, not massacres. When 100,000 keeled into their graves within a few months or a year, it had to be hell.
Nevertheless, the plague was an Asian disease that got to Europe via the trade routes that Mongols opened up via the Middle East. Before it got to North America, it wiped out hordes of Muslims. Eventually it killed 1/3 of the Europeans and 1/2 of them on a second occasion. Would the Thanksgiving apologists have us blame the Chinese for the European decimations? Please!!
Another disease that killed the Indians was small pox. It turns out that most of the Central American Indians have a lesser form of it that is much like the measles - doesn’t give them too much trouble. Somehow, it got to Europe (possibly through pre-Columbian contact), where it mutated to its current form. When the Europeans brought it back to North America, many Indians succumbed.
Today, we need cures for heart attack, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimer’s, et cetera, and the more injun geniuses who can get into our med schools, the better off we all are. And for that we give thanks.
What a dopey school. Guess they don’t know that the Indians and the Pilgrims shared the first thanksgiving and a good time was had by all.
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