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Amala Ekpunobi

She’s “Decolonizing” Christmas??

Amala Ekpunobi

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.22.7K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Does Christmas need to be decolonized? This baker explains why she thinks so while making holiday cookies using only indigenous ingredients. Let’s react.


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0:00.0

This leftist says that she's decolonizing Christmas.

0:02.0

I'm not sure what that means, but I'm gonna find out.

0:05.0

So let's talk about it.

0:06.0

Yeah, you better.

0:07.0

Yeah, you better.

0:10.0

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0:16.0

Today we're going to be talking about decolonizing Christmas.

0:19.0

Now, these are conversations that we often have around the holidays on Columbus Day, leftists

0:23.9

are saying it's Indigenous People's Day.

0:25.4

On Thanksgiving, they're saying Thanksgiving didn't happen in the way that we know it historically,

0:29.2

and that the Native Americans and their colonizers were not sitting across from each other

0:33.3

and having a feast and therefore we shouldn't either.

0:35.9

A lot of leftists abstain from going to family holidays like Thanksgiving because they disagree with their family on politics. And today we're going to be reacting to a leftist woman who says she's going to be decolonizing Christmas. Now as I said before, I'm not sure what that means, but I think she's going to explain it to us. And this video comes with a recipe. So that's fun.

0:54.3

I'm having a decolonized Christmas this year. Making holiday treats celebrating indigenous ingredients.

0:59.3

So she says she's going to be celebrating indigenous ingredients this Christmas. The only issue is

1:04.3

indigenous people did not celebrate Christmas. There's no historical evidence that they had anything

1:09.3

like a Christmas celebration.

1:17.1

So I'm not sure how you can decolonize something when the colonizers didn't really come and take an indigenous tradition that was Christmas and change it with colonialism.

1:21.7

If you really wanted to decolonize Christmas, I'd imagine what you'd have to do is sort of strip

1:25.1

it of the Christian belief and tradition and celebrate a pagan holiday, since that's really where this comes from.

1:32.4

But let's keep watching.

1:33.4

These griddled Masa cookies are naturally gluten-free, like all food was prior to colonization.

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