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🗓️ 24 November 2022
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From an African-American Pilgrim to the advent of mac and cheese, black people have been involved in Thanksgiving from the beginning. Roy Wood, Jr. explains.
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0:08.0 | The only show that's for the culture. |
0:11.0 | Today, we're going to talk about Thanksgiving. |
0:14.0 | The holiday where we gather our families |
0:16.0 | to give thanks for our mini-blessons. |
0:19.0 | It's also the holiday when your nephew comes home from college |
0:21.0 | with a lot of new, woke ideas. |
0:24.0 | I don't give a damn what you say, Theodore. |
0:26.0 | I don't think Dolphin should get to vote. |
0:28.0 | Well, don't even have hands. |
0:31.0 | Anyway, what many people don't know about Thanksgiving |
0:35.0 | is that from the very beginning, |
0:38.0 | black people have been involved in this American tradition. |
0:41.0 | In fact, one of the first pilgrims who came to America |
0:45.0 | was black. |
0:46.0 | We don't know this man's name, |
0:48.0 | because the ship's records only describe him as a black amore. |
0:52.0 | A term used to describe someone with dark skin from North Africa. |
0:57.0 | In other words, black amore was the pilgrim's way of saying |
1:01.0 | they're black. |
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