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Take it back.

Take it back.

You are welcome to hear. The This is hell.

is hell and the crimes that are behind the great This is

hell and the crimes that are behind the great fortunes made by the United States throughout its history

are the crimes of indigenous genocide and the kidnapping and enslavement of Africans.

This week the United States is recognizing what it calls the first Thanksgiving,

which is grounded in the myth of a 1620 or 1621, whatever you choose,

festive meal bringing indigenous and colonists together in peace

including the sharing of native knowledge with the pilgrims so the pilgrims could

survive. The whole story makes it seem as if the invaders were welcomed with open arms.

Of course, none of it's true. The first U.S. Thanksgiving was declared by President

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 in an attempt to bring about national reconciliation during the Civil War.

There was also another recognition of Thanksgiving back in 1769 when the pilgrims were trying,

where people who are descendants of pilgrims were trying to bring in tourists to Plymouth

With that myth of Thanksgiving thoroughly entrenched indigenous have responded by seeing Thursday as a national day of mourning for the loss of an old world instead of a celebration of thanks for a new one.

Within those myths erased as the relationship and connectedness between indigenous and descendants of enslaved Africans.

The logic goes,

how can there be any common ground between native people

and those of African descent?

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