Nov. 26, 2008
Unlike Columbus Day, I actually like Thanksgiving. Celebrating the symbolic meeting between Pilgrims and Indians, when despite their differences, they came together at the same table and shared their cultures is a great lesson for everyone. Plus, we all have a lot to be thankful for, and what better way to celebrate than to eat a giant meal, lounge around lazily, and gamble on football?
But since everyone has the whole weekend off anyways, we should consider naming Friday as an official holiday as well. Maybe something a little more historically all-encompassing? I’m thinking of a name along the lines of Remember How We Eventually Killed All Those Indians? Day. You know, something to really bring the lesson full circle.
Anyways, here are the Nine Most Annoying Conversations You’ll be Having on Thanksgiving. Enjoy.
Trevor Timm is a Blast Magazine staff writer
I like Thanksgiving too. If only things could have remained that way between the natives and the pilgrims, in a spirit of cooperation. Too bad greed had to get in the way on the part of some of the settlers. I think the nation would have been a stronger one if that spirit of cooperation had remained.
I was reading an article in National Geographic about how the land was back in those times and about how the natives planted crops of corn and beans together because the beans re-added the nitrogen to the soil that the corn took away. To have agriculture that works with the land instead of against it makes so much more sense.
Happy thanksgiving, people.