First of all, what kind of joke of a job is District Director of Equity, Race & Learning Support? I'll bet that woman makes a six figure salary too. Get a real job, Ms Hollins. How many tax dollars are being wasted on you to tell kids that they shouldn't dare be thankful for what they have on Thanksgiving Day, that instead they should feel horrible and guilty for being white. Sensitive to minorities? Do not black Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What about other ethnic Americans like Hispanics and Asians? Hell, even the Indians celebrate it, according to the according to members of the Tulalip Tribes.

Caprice Hollins is just another far left crackpot who thinks so lowly of herself that she must spread her misery onto other peoples' children with her anti-American Marxist brainwashing.

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as a Native American , I find her and her misrepresentation of thanksgiving
which was originally a meal , a festival if you will ,which celebrated a grand harvest.(celebrated on it's first instance as a honor to God , and the Native people who helped them learn to plant corn and grow and harvest new world crops which were unfamiliar to them and aided them in surviving )
as some racist thing to be turned into a time of mourning to be racist in the extreme .

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I think the whole idea is utterly retarded, but I don't see it as "condemning" Thanksgiving...

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This country, as in other ones, will always have a squawker looking to abuse history to whinge about something. There are often some collateral issues to make such claims. Christmas was a pagan holiday. Columbus massacred Native Americans. The list goes on if one wants to reinvent a negative spin on such things. And indeed, it's often by some government office of no value put there for patronage purposes or some lobbyist group looking for attention and power.

Thanksgiving was actually a New England thing that other Americans found unique to that area and not part of their own local culture. When Lincoln first adopted it, it didn't really get off the ground for awhile. It was actually business--with federal support to help the economy--in the early part of the 1900s who marketed and promoted it on a national level where it finally got national public traction as a nice thing to do plus help business. Holidays are awesome for business and good for the national mindset and need to take time out for themselves and their family and friends, and placing enough of them strategically throughout the year helps the economy. But, it's a nice holiday with a nice theme (the current understanding is all that matters, not some old one) as well as good business and that what's important. Even the Canadians adopted Thanksgiving Day although on another day.

That lady is a crock and she'll be dismissed as such. Those claims have been made before and people know such things have one sided, parsed and selected historical truths to craft the spin but the spin isn't really relevant to the holiday today and people won't let them spoil it.

If you really want to, you can make anything out to be negative or racist. It is only a question of imagination. However, you face the risk of being looked upon as a crackpot.

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