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Issue: 765

November 22, 2018

Cover Story

Thanksgiving: The Original Hate Crime

By The Reverend Irene Monroe Editorial Board

America’s origin of hate crimes can be traced with the treatment of Native Americans and how America celebrates Thanksgiving. For many Native Americans, Thanksgiving is not a cause of celebration, but rather a National Day of Mourning.

Thanksgiving is an excellent time to give a closer look at the rising escalation of hate crimes in America - its origin and its legacy. America’s…

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Commentary

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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Sharp n’ Blunt

Thanksgiving Was the Begining of the End for Folks of Color

By Desi Cortez Columnist

Thanksgiving is honestly, at its core a controversial and convoluted symbolic holiday which celebrates not just religious freedom and liberty . . . for some, but also ushered-in colonialism. T Day equates into and represents the latter creation of a society which sanctioned oppression, repression and forms of genocide!

Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac, Diamond in the back, sunroof top Diggin' the scene With a gangsta lean . . . Gangsta…

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