Hello and welcome. It is Eric Erickson here. The Eric Erikson Show nationwide. The phone number is 87797-97-3-7-425. If you would like to be on this here program, I need to play for you some audio to begin this portion of the program.

And it will undoubtedly, I suppose, hurt your head.

Not my intention, but you need to hear this.

This is commentary from MSNBC with Tiffany Cross.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I wanted to turn the mic over to Cross Connection

favorite and my friend, Yassie Ross, for this week's essay and his take on the real story

of Thanksgiving and some history you probably never read in your school books.

Okay.

Netaniko Umakum Sukha. My name is Jossi Ross. I come from the Amscapi-Pagni Nation.

The mythology of Thanksgiving closely mirrors the mythology of America.

That mythology is the image that white Americans love to see of themselves.

White settlers come to a strange land, in good faith, bringing something of great value that enriches the people who are already here.

The natives also bring something of immense value. Equal exchange. That closely mimics the mythology of white America. It is how America wants to see itself.

The truth, of course, of Thanksgiving is much different. The truth is pilgrims did not bring turkey, sweet potato pie, or cranberries to Thanksgiving.

They could not. They were broke. They were broken. Their hands were out. They were

begging. They brought nothing of value. But they got fed. They got schooled. Thanksgiving. It makes

sense. There is much for white Americans to be thankful for. But I'm still trying to figure out what

indigenous people received

a value. Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence.

That genocide and violence is still on the menu as state-sponsored violence against Native and

Black Americans as commonplace. And violent, private white supremacy is celebrated and subsidized.

From Stone Child Chief Stick to Mike Brown to Renee Davis to Breonna Taylor to Eric Gardner,

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