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Issue: 676

November 24, 2016

Cover Story

Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning – Text of 1970 speech by Wampsutta – An Aquinnah Wampanoag Elder

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Pilgrims had hardly explored the shores of Cape Cod for four days before they had robbed the graves of my ancestors and stolen their corn and beans.

When Frank James (1923 - February 20, 2001), known to the Wampanoag people as Wampsutta, was invited to speak by the Commonwealth of Massachusettsat the 1970…

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Guest Commentary

The Thanksgiving Myth, Mistakes, Lies & Misconceptions About American Indian People

By John Two Hawks Guest Commentator

Let me begin by stating that thousands of years before the ‘official’ Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637, North American Indigenous people across the continent had celebrated seasons of Thanksgiving. ‘Thanksgiving’ is a very ancient concept to American Indian nations. The big problem with the American Thanksgiving…

Let me begin by stating that thousands of years before the 'official' Thanksgiving Day was proclaimed by Governor Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637,…

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Thanksgiving

Cartoon

Thanksgiving

By Mark Hurwitt

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Commentary

The End of American Thanksgivings – A Cause for Universal Rejoicing

By The Black Commentator Guest Commentator

The Mayflower’s cultural heirs are programmed to find glory in their own depravity and savagery in their most helpless victims, who can only redeem themselves by accepting the inherent goodness of white Americans. Thanksgiving encourages these cognitive cripples in their madness, just as it is designed to do.

Nobody celebrates Thanksgiving quite like Americans. It is reserved by history and the intent of “the founders” as the supremely white American holiday, the most ghoulish…

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