Reclaiming Thanksgiving: How I Learned to Embrace a Holiday That Represents Everything I'm Against
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2016-11-24
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Watkins, D. (2016, November 24). Reclaiming Thanksgiving: How I Learned to Embrace a Holiday that Represents Everything I'm Against. Salon.com. https://www.salon.com/2016/11/24/reclaiming-thanksgiving-how-i-learned-to-embrace-a-holiday-that-represents-everything-im-against/.
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Social context is interesting. A few years back, I had a white coworker who viewed
Thanksgiving as a holiday that all Americans should proudly celebrate, even the
Native ones. To her, it was more than a time for family and food — it was time
for Americans to celebrate the many things we overcame, our resilience, our ability to
unite with the indigenous people in the New World and the basic fundamentals that
make us the greatest country in the world. To this day, I don’t really know what she was
talking about.