Happy Monday from all of us at the Heritage Foundation.

This Thursday, we celebrate Thanksgiving.

Now, many of us have traditions that will be interrupted by COVID-19,

which makes Thanksgiving feel different this year.

But there's another threat to Thanksgiving that some might say is even more important.

Our colleague, Jared Stetman, has wondered if this is the last generation of Americans who will

celebrate Thanksgiving at all. Today, Tim and I are going to read to you his important commentary

on how America's future may depend on Thanksgiving. It may seem laughable to ask if this is

the last generation of Americans who'll celebrate Thanksgiving. But when the city of Berkeley,

California, replaced Columbus Day with Indigenous People's Day in 1992, few would have expected to see Columbus Day thrown into a state of collapse just decades later, even being abolished in Washington, D.C.

The logic behind the attacks on Columbus Day are similar to the criticism of Thanksgiving.

To celebrate this holiday, or the pilgrims associated with it, is a celebration of genocide.

It should be replaced by a national day of mourning.

Back in 2005, Robert Jensen wrote, quote, one indication of moral progress in the United States

would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a

national day of atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.

To this day, his remarks are still repeated, even in publications outside the United States,

like the UK Independent.

But Thanksgiving is a much bigger target than Columbus Day because it's more deeply ingrained

in our culture, and because the spirit of the holiday runs counter

to the left's narrative of grievance, oppression, and outrage. Despite the revisionist attacks,

the pilgrims are certainly still worth celebrating. But what's at stake is far bigger than the

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