Thanksgiving
Saturday 25th November
Haha… good on ya, Bill Morgan…
LONG BEACH, Calif. - Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he “discovered” them. The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want their things back.
Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
Timely, relevant and appropriate. White people (Merkin or not) need to wake up to what their forebears did. Nice one stu
lordhutton
25 Nov 06 at 10:06 pm
cool
sarah
26 Nov 06 at 8:01 am
Interesting.
I think the sentiments behind Thanksgiving have probably changed a bit nowadays though. An American I know says it’s all about being thankful for what you’ve got, and a time to celebrate life with friends and family etc.
Rich
26 Nov 06 at 9:24 am
I’d think they’d rather celebrate thanks giving than the commencement of genocide of the native population
Max
26 Nov 06 at 5:03 pm
Hmmm. Where does one draw the line, though? In Australia, white kids were made to sign Apology Books which were given Aboriginal representatives. Potentially psychologically damaging perhaps, or maybe just using a novel method of telling them about the beastly actions of their forefathers? Teaching kids Right from Wrong is one thing, indoctrinating them into feeling bad because of the actions of a bunch of people 200 years ago is quite another.
Omally
27 Nov 06 at 10:39 pm