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What Should America’s Children Be Taught About Thanksgiving? These People’s Answers Might Shock You

Nov. 21, 2012 7:13pm Jason Howerton

Even with a sluggish economy and painfully high unemployment rates, the United States of America is still undoubtedly the greatest nation on earth. Many Americans would argue that the Thanksgiving holiday is a great opportunity to teach children about the importance of coming together as one country and being, well, thankful.

But not everyone agrees with that assessment.

Revealing Politics conducted a number of man-on-the-street interviews and asked people what our schools should be teaching America’s students about Thanksgiving. In fact, some were asked what young kindergarteners should be taught about Thanksgiving. Their answers just might put a damper on your holiday spirit.

“What do you think we should teach our kindergarteners about Thanksgiving,” Revealing Politics’ Caleb Bonham asks in the video.

“The truth,” one man replies. “They need to know about the racism and the violence that went on.”

What Should Americas Children Be Taught About Thanksgiving?

(YouTube)

In response to the same exact question, another woman said we should teach kindergarteners that Thanksgiving is “totally meaningless” and “we massacred millions and millions of Native Americans.” Ouch. That’s quite a heavy kindergarten lesson.

“Well, our nation was founded on slavery, genocide, murder, theft and mass injustice and it continues to this day,” yet another female respondent said.

(YouTube)

Some were asked to respond what “students” in general should be learning about Thanksgiving, while others were a little more indifferent to the holiday.

“Personally, I don’t really give a sh*t about Thanksgiving,” another man said. Another gentleman echoed his feelings, saying America should just do away with Thanksgiving all together.

Watch the video below via Revealing Politics:

The video’s producer Ben Howe, a RedState contributor and Revealing Politics creative director, told TheBlaze on Wednesday that the respondents in the video displayed “repulsive anti-Americanism and thought.”

“No nation on earth is blameless. No people are blameless,” he added. “Ideally something like Thanksgiving is an opportunity for us to share in our common humanity not our common feelings of guilt. But given that it is a uniquely American holiday, I guess these people just can’t pass up the opportunity to trash her.”

Howe went on: “I’m not saying we don’t bear any responsibility for any scars that were left in our history. Clearly America has had its moral failings. The point is that Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of coming together, but for these people and so many like them they just can’t let go and prefer to live in a world where blame always rests on the shoulders of someone else.”

Exit Question: What do you think we should be teaching America’s children about Thanksgiving?

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TexOkie
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:50pm
Let those who are guilty of the sins of their fathers free themselves of their guilt and us of their presence.

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- jungle J
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:05pm
  thank you.
  
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- Quiata
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:30pm
  Per the article: “The point is that Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time of coming together, but for these people and so many like them they just can’t let go and prefer to live in a world where blame always rests on the shoulders of someone else.”
  
  It’s not just that they “can’t let go”. They say these things because they’ve been led to believe that by doing so they are morally superior, sympathetic, and noble. They have a “cause”. However, their compassion and understanding only extend to politically protected groups.
  
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- quiet little lamb
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:46pm
  well if you go to that area you’ll get that answer. come to my neck of the woods and you’ll have to look very hard to find someone anti-thanksgiving. these man on the street “journalism gotcha” videos are getting boring. REAL NEWS!!!! why haen’t you guys reported on Elmo’s master resigning over allegations he slept with a 16 YEAR OLD?????
  
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- SendTheMeteors
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:03pm
  I agree to a point, but one person who should be hated and despised on this uniquely American holiday is the President of the United States:
  
  http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-politicizes-turkey-pardon-even-sneaks-in-campaign-slogan-forward/
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:39pm
  This is what you get when you have “chosen people” Marxist controlling the media as well as Marxists infesting unions. The teacher’s union are infested with revolutionary Marxists just like the media. Propaganda is a very powerful tool and the “chosen people” figured out how to use it effectively.
  
  Notice too how powerful unions have become in the last 8 years? They ran Hostess out of business, even refusing a 2nd chance to reach an agreement before filing bankruptcy. They chose being unemployed over having a job. They are planning on running a union style walkout at Walmart tomorrow. They tried to takeover Wisconsin last year. There were a couple of other union strong arm things I can’t think of right now, but it tells me they are as powerful as ever.
  
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- banjarmon
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:36am
  Who writes the History of WAR….The winner!!!! Conservatives Need to WIN and bring the Truth to the YOUNG!!!!
  
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- Pigpen
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:45am
  Well, for those of you out there in Blazeland who AREN’T ashamed of the Mayflower Compact, Puritanism’s stand against the official state religion of England, or of your white ancestors in general, I -just have one question: How is that diversity and tolerance based society workin’ out for ya’? You looked down your college-educated noses at me when I said we should PREVENT the swarthy masses of the world from entering America, keep kids under strong discipline, and reject the notion that women should work outside the home, and what did ya’ get? Well, the swarthy masses control your government and are handing out money to the world, your kids have tattoos, piercings, and NO SELF CONTROL at all, AND your wife has to stock shelves at WalMart just to make ends meet. GOOD JOB, SNOBS. I hope the fifteen seconds of feeling superior to little ol’ me was worth YOUR COUNTRY and YOUR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM!!!
  
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- Something is Wrong
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 4:02am
  I don’t care what any of those well-indoctrinated grown up children have to say, I’m proud to be a descendant of Miles Standish! I love being able to teach my children that their grandparents shared in the first Thanksgiving!
  
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- Hank919
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 4:34am
  Moral superiority…pure Progressive bull hockey. Indoctrinated idiots.
  
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- old white guy
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:32am
  thanksgiving. who are you thanking for your good fortune, health, family and other blessings? God or man?
  
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- Jesse_J
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 6:04am
  They should be taught the real story of how it was capitalism for which they were thankful. Read fresh political commentary at: http://smallcraftadvisorychronicles.blogspot.com/
  
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- 1947
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 6:07am
  What a work of art the young men and women have become……I don’t recall Americans reacting like this…..is Obama meeting the needs of this type of individuals
  
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- Gorp
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:59am
  @ Sabrina1011:
  Do you just change your handle and keep spouting the same crap?
  
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- UnknownUser1
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 9:38am
  Look at the conformists. Has there ever been a country ashamed of itself? Who shot first John Smith or the Indians? What about all the times we extended the olive branch just to have them attack again or encouraged by the Brits? I used to think the way they do so I know. I guess they would be happier sleeping in a TeePee or being a serf to the King of England!!!!!!!!
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 9:58am
  What are these people doing living and benefiting from a country they detest so much? I bet everyone one of these people live off their parent and their money comes from murder and all kinds of crimes against society.
  
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- Thomas
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:06am
  It funny because white man must be the baddest toughest mofos around cause we have oppressed everyone it seems. If what they are saying is true their existence is owed to our grace alone and here they are trying to get us stirred up? They might want to rethink their tactics if they really believe what they are saying.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:36am
  David Yeagley, A Comanche blogger, put it succintly as: “Pale faces won because they were better warriors.”
  
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- Favored93
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:01pm
  Well said!
  
  David Barton had a GREAT show last night that dispelled the idea that the pilgrims raped, murdered and stole from the Natives. It was a happy time and the Natives enjoyed our friendship for quite a while! I do wish people would look into the real story.
  
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- DenverKitty
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 1:44pm
  Let these fools commit suicide today…in a mass protest of Thanksgiving…while the rest of us enjoy a delicious turkey dinner.
  
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- Red Meat
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:08pm
  These people are the products of our public education system. Home school!
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:36pm
  you know.. historically the people in this story are right..
  
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- Goldi-lox
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 6:01am
  What a bunch of worthless DOLTS! All they can spout are “buzz words” (genocide, racism)… They didn’t give a single EXAMPLE. They sound like Demo-Talking Points.
  
  If any of them really gave a da*n about the AMERICAN INDIANS’ plight, for example, they could be volunteering to tutor and mentor troubled youth who need help with their schooling, or donating $$$$ to poverty-stricken Indian reservations. Instead, all they spew is HATRED FOR AMERICA. This is not only evil, it is also tragic–for all of us.
  
  GIVING THANKS is GOOD FOR THE SOUL. THAT is the answer that any TRUE AMERICAN would have given. We should be teaching children that GIVING THANKS shows God how grateful we are for all our blessings and teaches us to be compassionate and sharing with those less fortunate. AMEN!
  
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- HappyStretchedThin
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 10:36am
  My deep studies of the Rwandan genocide leave me almost in horror every time someone misuses that term.
  There’s no shame in admitting that many natives died after the arrival of whites in the Americas (some estimates put it at close to 95%!). It is a tragedy of human loss. But, it is NOT a genocide or anything close.
  When you use the word genocide for this, as if ANY of the whites were actually trying to kill ANY of those natives, first you cheapen the meaning of REAL genocides, and second, you completely mis-assign causality and ascribe motivations to people that simply weren’t there. Diseases (which NO ONE understood back then, since germ theory wasn’t invented until hundreds of years later) don’t pick and choose who they kill. Either you have the antibodies and heal, or you don’t and die. The pilgrims had EVERY interest in living peacefully with the natives, in most cases did, and in some cases were forced to defend themselves against groups who thought torture, human sacrifice, kidnapping, and other crimes were acceptable forms of warfare. Even when they had to defend themselves, they were NEVER interested in killing ALL natives–just the ones who perpetrated the violence.
  REAL genocides happen when people INTEND to murder ALL of another group. Period.
  
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- reaper69
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:05pm
  These moronic products of the indoctrination of our youth have no idea of the facts, they only know the nonsense that has been poured into their vacuous minds since they entered the public indoctrination system and were fed their daily dose of lies and anti-American garbage by their anti-Americian ‘educators’! It’s too late to help these idiots, they are fully invested in their version of the past, as re-written by the left! Our children should be taught the real truth, of wwhich the fools in the video know nothing!
  
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The_Cabrito_Goat
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:50pm
We have no respect for history or Western literature, only as far as we can tear through the pages, hunting for examples of racism and sexism.

I got news for America: that was then. This is now.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:57pm
  Perfectly stated. You’re quite consistent and correct. Well done.
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:47am
  To quote my good ol’ npc friend Sten from Dragonage Origins,
  
  “Compared To What”
  
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- Balzy
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:48am
  that’s a message for those kids in video btw
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:37pm
  whats that old saying… learn from history or its bound to repeat itself… something like that
  
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- jimbo_from_suwanee
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 6:24pm
  News: Charlie Brown Thanksgiving too down X-Factor!
  
  http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/11/22/charlie-brown-thanksgiving/
  
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zatzaowe
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:47pm
indoctrinated not educated. communist useful idiots. parasites on the testes of society. they out vote conservatives in affect saying we out number you so we vote that you give us your money. you work we play. because of past injustices america must pay retribution. what does this really mean? Revenge on old white males the new cool target to hate and blame.

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- angeleyes63
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:17pm
  Absolutely, these parasites are fast becoming the majority and we all can thank a local teachers union and the progressive media, spewing anti American hatred fostering the rise of communism/socialism. Good by sweet America.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:56pm
  It’s scary.
  
  Homeschool!!!!
  
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- Starstruck
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:22am
  Completely agree!
  
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- title_of_liberty
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:29am
  @twobyfour I agree. One of the things I am most grateful to my parents for is that they homeschooled me from the start. I’m 17 and I shudder at the thought of going to public school.
  
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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:48am
  Wow that’s impressive, almost Darwinian.
  
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- Git-R-Done
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 1:46am
  Simplelies – Don’t get upset that it’s you lefties who are considered the America haters.
  
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- TomSawyer
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 2:35am
  I agree. There is no way most middle age and older people would respond the way these young people responded. Notice how most of them used the same key words (genocide, slavery, land stealing etc).
  
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- BlueStrat
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:18am
  @ zatzaowe
  
  Doesn’t it remind you of the movie “Idiocracy”?
  
  It’s the exact same principle. They breed like rats in the cities to incompetent/distracted/uncaring parents who leave them to basically be raised and indoctrinated in public schools, and end up knowing only dependence and a single intolerant point of view.
  
  Just as in “Idiocracy”, they become agitated and angry at anyone that seems “smart” and/or presents them with facts that challenge what they’ve been taught to believe is true because they would have to first admit that they can be and were made fools of by those they depend on and who shaped their views.
  
  I guess that makes us an army of “Not-Sure”s (character from the movie). Hope there are no monster-truck-gladiator-vs-Yugo-in-arena scenes in our future as in the movie. I don’t see how Lib/Progs can watch that movie and NOT see the obvious connections to where their policies are logically and inevitably taking us to an almost identical outcome.
  
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- Keatonc333
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 11:39pm
  HAHA “old white males the new cool target to hate and blame.” well being as they are the only people in america who have yet to be targeted with hate and blame why not? go through it, then in a hundred years lets see how your tone is when it comes to these issues.
  
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- MacWell
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 2:29am
  This situation we find ourselves in hasn’t happened by chance. This (plan) has been in effect for many, many years. I believe the modern version started when we the people sat silent while one woman and nine, unelected, black robed men threw G_d from my classroom. Soon after hollywood began to become more and more provocative. TV shows started to push the envelope, sex was given a free pass, all in the name of more freedom.
  Freedom to do what?
  To speak your mind? We already had that.
  Freedom of religion? We had that as well.
  Freedom was NOT what was intended, license is what they were after. license to be as corrupt and as base as possible. Women and then girls were told that men only wanted sex from them, so, why not have the same attitude, after all, women are equal, and we the people ate it up. We remained the silent majority.
  I ask all of you who didn’t think America was worth getting off yer ass to go and vote for a good and honest, family man, and allowed Obama to continue to “fundamentally transform” America, how the hell can you justify letting this country down at such a time as this?
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:46pm
http://www.art101.com/peace/peace.mp3

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- kathyinmo
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:23pm
  Thank you! That is soooo beautiful!
  
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- Seabass82
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:14am
  Beautiful! I love some harmony! Thanks for sharing.
  
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NHwinter
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:46pm
Michelle Obama said we would have to rewrite our history and it sure looks like they are doing just that.

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marine249
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:45pm
from the sounds of it, all these
left-wing nuts went to the same
” ” school.

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- Mudd
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:53pm
  The sad thing is they probably all went to different schools that failed to teach them that not every European slaughtered Indians. No doubt, there was a concerted effort by the Federal Government to destroy native culture that has nothing to do with the Pligrims or Thanksgiving. It should also be noted that the Indians were a stone age people who slaughtered, enslaved and stole land from each other long before Columbus arrived on the scene. America was not the Garden of Eden before the arrival of the white man.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:58pm
  I came here to speak, but found that Mudd had already said what I wished to say. Rather than ruin a good statement, I simply concur with Mudd’s post and otherwise remain silent.
  
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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 10:33pm
  @mudd – maybe you should become a history teacher.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 8:38am
  My favorite misconception is purposely spreading of disease. Germ theory wasn’t proven until 1813 long after the Pilgrims got here. But hey, that’s not important or anything.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:21am
  Justangry, actually a bit later. Bassi’s theory was specific to disease in silkworms. Pasteur (mid-1800′s) and Koch (1880′s ) devised a more comprehensive theory that included all diseases based on bacterial infections. It still took some time before sterilization was applied in hospitals and on the battleground. Otherwise right, people of that time had no idea that blankets could carry infection. Whoever came up with that preposterous anachronistic idea probably hoped that people would gobble it up because of ignorance.
  
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- itchytriggerfinger
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 6:25pm
  @MUDD
  
  …and when Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico during the 16th century, the Mayans and Aztecs were still performing human sacrifices. Sacrificing human life for personal gain is satanic…(hint, hint)
  
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- skrewdworld
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 1:37am
  Republicans and independents are called the haters, the dividers, the unelightened, the anti-American, the nut jobs etc.. etc..??? I found these comments very offensive, wrong, pretty much anti-American and verging on real bigotry and racism. There isn’t a person left alive that is responsible for slavery, killing native Americans etc. This country absolutely was founded on better things then these people are saying. It’s seems as if it’s liberals/dems that are keeping the divide in this country going the nto come up with this trash talk?? I’m extremely frightened for the future of America if this it what people think school children should be taught!!!! Are we going to become a morally bankrupt, irresponsible, unaccountable hate filled country???? Just can’t get a handle on explaining how disturbing I find the things these people have said!!!! Anyone else just shocked and dismayed?????
  
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Noah_fing-whey
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:42pm
Anyone who has attended college in recent years has to memorize this crap!

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- marine249
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:57pm
  @NOAH
  
  sorry I kind of steped on your post.
  It’s taken the blaze longer and
  longer to get a post up. It took them
  over 5 mins to post mine.
  
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- pagraywolf
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:35pm
  Not quite. Depends on the college you attended. Or what college within a university. I was a science major and graduated in 2002 from a well known university. Never experienced this trash. However, when I took more classes at a local private college, the liberal attitude flowed like the odor from an outhouse. I was corrected in genetics lab because I was telling a young student the reasons why you should kill a mouse in your house (diseases) and not release it outdoors (only to return to your house via the same entryway or go into your neighbor’s house). Idiocy.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:13am
  I was cured of any errors about what happened in the Americas, North, Central and South before Columbus, DeSoto, Cortez or any other “explorer” by Charles Mann’s “1491.” One of the best books of pre-Columbus torture, enslavement and slaughter among the tribes that existed here long before Europeans arrived. They were all doing this crap to each other: Mayans, Toltecs, Aztecs, Native North Americans. These people were straight up cruel and sinister to each other and practiced divination and sorcery to the nth degree. I traveled in Canada and United STates among these tribes for 10 years. The “Christians” among them, only 5 percent are decent people. Everybody else is cruel and hateful and extremely vicious. They called them “Hostiles” for a reason. It’s who they were and who they still are. Nobody should care about being politically correct. Every Native North American that follows Jesus is lovely. Everybody else has problems, bitterness, unforgiveness and a host of other problems. Finding out the truth about these people resolved any questions I had and Barry Soteoro cured me of any pity I had for AFrican Americans. You have the life you want. You have the life you don’t work for. Bitter and Vengeful. So many are. Their problem. NOt mine. I tried to help for 10 years to no avail. One bitter diatribe after another.
  
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Windsong
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:41pm
I’d like these ‘historical experts’ to help me out here. If traveling to a faraway land, then landing and farming/building/developing the land is cause to accuse said adventures of being racists, slave owners and murderers, then no other nation should exist except Israel.
Every piece of land on this planet was taken over by some group of wanderers/discoverers/hopeful people. None of Europe would exist without individuals landing on unseen and unknown territories.
Spain landed a ship in Mexico and ‘occupied’ the people who already lived there. That is why those in Mexico speak Spanish…and not Mexican or English. America had a war with Mexico, but never ‘occupied’ the people. They simply left the land to the Spaniards/Mexicans, asking only that they live in peace.
The Pilgrims froze and starved in winter and fought the heat and insects in the summer, yet they built something special. I make no excuses for ‘occupation’ of the Indian lands. It was wrong. But I am unwilling to toss aside the friendships formed between the Pilgrims and the Indians. And I am unwilling to forget the sacrifices of the hard-working Indians and the Europeans who are responible for inventing electricity, indoor plumbing, the internet or building safe buildings.
And that is part of what Thanksgiving is about. Stopping the hatred and anger, joining together and building the greatest nation on earth. No apologies here. Happy Thanksgiving.

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- WINNEBAGOMAN
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 10:39pm
  @ Windsong: Perfectly said.
  
  Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family, my friend.
  
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- shorelineliz
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:16am
  Happy Thanksgiving. NO one will tell you but there were Native American people who actually welcomed these seafaring English people and helped them heal from their shipboard illnesses. One of these Native Americans was Squanto. He was Wampanaog. Good guy. Fed people. Had peace with these people for first 40 years. The Praying Indians of Natick (Massachusetts) were Christianized by John Elliot a Puritan Missionary. These Christian Indians still express appreciation for this White Englishman today. Don’t believe all the crap you read out there.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:41pm
The typical libs talking points about Thanksgiving are the settlers killed the natives and gave them diseases. Do you want to be a winner or a loser? I’m glad they killed some natives because we wouldn’t be here if they hadn’t and don’t think the Indians were pure as the driven snow they were good at killing their own but the settlers were better at it. What country on earth was conquered without violence? Be thankful the Pilgrims came here to escape tyranny and create the United States,it was great for 200+ years but now we’re headed for communism,just around the corner.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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- SimpleTruths
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 12:54am
  Working together to solve problems is not communism, it’s building a better civilization.
  
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- Twobyfour
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:50am
  Simpleton,
  Enforced working together (collectivism) is communism. To coerce, communism uses an anti-thesis of working together–class warfare, other villains and mortal enemies… always creates an impression of a threat external or internal (while disregarding real threats that do not fir in their ideological narratives) to make coercion seem as lesser evil choice. Neo-marxists are just a bit more sophisticated about it. They use deconstruction and re-framing to obscure meaning and to hide intent. They also use internalization of manufactured guilt and offer absolutions in form of modern indulgences.
  
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RJJinGadsden
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:41pm
Wow, did anybody else catch those huge ear lobe inserts on Simba there? The next wow, is for what have these useful idiots been taught in school? Correction, that should be what sort of indoctrination?

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- DEFCON4
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 8:15pm
  Hey RJJ, Those “saucers” provide “awesome” talking-points when interviewing for a job/ oops /
  a gov’t hand-out…….lol…..
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 9:04pm
  DEFCON4, Hey, when he walks in for that interview with that Starbucks Latte, he’ll have something to put the cup on, won’t he?
  
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- RamonPreston
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:25pm
  How can you refer to Obama as “Simba?’ Simba is an African lion. Barry is a lyin’ African.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:24am
  I saw that RJJ… i thought it was a snare drum.
  
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paperpushermj
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:37pm
A pox on the baby boomer generation. They failed at passing on to their progeny the values they had passed on to them.They followed the Greatest Generation and will be forever know as the Generation of Hubris and Arrogance.

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- ObserverOnTheHill
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:43pm
  more indicative of assuming ( wrongfully ) that the public school system was responsibly educating our kids I think
  
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- Sgt_Rock
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:06pm
  Many of us boomers were kids when the present crop of educators, professors and the like were protesting the war in Viet Nam. Those hippies were indoctrinated by their professors, and they became the core of the education system and as we grew up and had kids, they gained tenure and started the indoctrination process in our kids schools. We were so busy working to get “stuff” we didn’t see this coming, so yes, some of us old enough to be the parents of the idiots in the video are partially to blame. That said, when we grew up you could trust the school systems to teach the three basics, reading, writing and math. We got history, but our teachers were the WWII era folks who had a love for this country. Their kids were the hippies of the 60s and they were the first batch of idiots going into the universities and colleges being run by the communists and socialists. See below, taken from the 45 goals of communism:
  
  15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
  
  16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
  
  17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
  
  18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
  
  Our enemies are patient and it is paying off for them.
  
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- repairsea
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:38pm
  Some of us pulled our children out of the liberal schools and sent them through private schools where they learned to think. I raised an educated, employed, veteran, conservative white male and I am proud as hell of him. He ran circles around the liberal college professors and turned a few into conservatives. He pays his bills and volunteers for overtime at work while the rest of them whine about an 8 hour work day. He is a good man and you are all welcome.
  
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Balpit
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:36pm
You know what I’m thankful for?

That most people in America are not as ungrateful or negative as these people.

I’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving with my family. You interviewees fell free to wallow in your negativity like pigs in filth, which that adds another thing I’m thankful for: that none of you uber-pessimists will be anywhere near my Thanksgiving celebration.

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- TurboCat
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 3:19am
  Thank-you REPAIRSEA! It really does matter when parents teach good values, because who a parent sends out into the world matters. And by the way, these people who spew like the ones in this story are truly ungrateful malcontents!
  
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- Trail_Jumper
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 7:53am
  Don’t worry, instead of being thankful for what they have today, tomorrow they’ll be trampling each other to death on Black Friday trying to get new stuff to give them validation in their lives (which will only last a few days anyway). It makes me believe that in a round about way Darwin had a point….
  
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WakeUpAmerica1776
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:34pm
And this attitude, if really pervasive, is why this country is in such dire straights. Not one person in this clip mentions God.

I think one of the most incredible things I have ever heard Glenn Beck say was on 8/28/2010 in Washington DC. He asked people gathered to look across the reflecting pool towards the Washington Monument. When we view that monument he said, we do not see it’s scars, but they are there. We see what the monument stands for, tall and erect – a tribute to a great man and first president. The scars are there. The stone changes color about 1/3rd of the way up, and now there is damage from the earthquake. Glenn’s point was that so to is America. We have scars, like slavery and the genocide by Andrew Jackson against the American Indians. But America is bigger than its scars… We also shed blood to purge ourselves of Slavery. America is great because at our core… America has always been good.

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- paperpushermj
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:38pm
  Amen
  
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- rickc34
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:48pm
  Scars are signs of character. Give thanks to the Lord for all he has done for you. To many look at the negative and dwell upon that but everyday there is something to be thankful for. We bring most bad things upon ourselves then pass the blame. God wants only good for us. It is our choice what we focus on. Lord thank you for all the blessings you have bestowed upon this nation ..guide us back to you Lord we have wandered.
  
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- usedCZARsalesman
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 11:29pm
  WAKEUP…you just gave my chills brother. Wow, if only the average American still had that type of love and understanding for this country. I am heart broken that my children will either never know Her, or they AND their children will spill blood for Her…
  
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- JanG
  Posted on November 23, 2012 at 2:13pm
  i gotta repeat,, GENOCIDE is the wiping out of a whole nation of ppl… not the killing of some who were troublemakers. I agree that sometimes the killing on both sides was unnecessary,, but in the days of Andrew Jackson,, et al,,, that was the only way they knew to handle it. War was common to folks,, albeit not liked,, no one sane likes war. But it’s a necessary evil to keep our ppl safe from tyranny. I don’t believe that many know the definition of the word. GO look it up. It’s getting closer and closer,, if we don’t wake up. That is, those who can effect a difference. One retired housewife,,can’t..at least no way that i know of. I am a Godly person and yes,, there’s been a lot of lack of mention of His name. BUT….i don’t want to use His name willly nilly and turn away ppl who might think im just a bible thumper looking to thump heads. Simply, I believe the parents are to blame.,,, as one previous commenter stated. The children today are raised to think things should just be handed to them,,, from parents who did… OR the opposite,, parents that procreated and then were not responsible for one reason or another,, drugs,, alchohol,, or just needing to work ,, w/o both parents to look after the kids. NOT ALL parents on either side were/are like this,, but obviously a heck of a lot of them,, just look at the results.! I know MY kids came up responsible workaholic adults that realized that the road to freedom was a job and hard work and perseverence!
  
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MrButcher
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:31pm
“This is the way the world ends/Not with a bang but with a whimper.”
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Was this filmed in Northern Virginia?

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Grand design
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:31pm
If some of those interviewed don’t like this country or think that it’s a terrible place to live, there is a boat leaving everyday, be on it!

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Polarized America
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:30pm
..If you tell them about the Pilgrims & Indians having the first Thanksgiving you may be wrong as well….
http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/history/us/ah0026.htm

An interesting bit of trivia is that the first American Thanksgiving was actually celebrated on September 8, 1565 in St. Augustine, Florida. The Native Americans and Spanish settlers held a feast and the Holy Mass was offered.

A second similar “Thanksgiving” celebration occurred on American soil on April 30, 1598 in Texas when Don Juan de Oñate declared a day of Thanksgiving to be commemorated by the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass.

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Thornyrose13
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:30pm
The truth is that the early settlers and natives DID eat together, and that those settlers would not have survived without the assistance of those who knew how to live on the land. Time enough to go on and let kids know about the darker side of colonization. What is important is to stress the idealism of things like the Declaration of independence, and holidays like Thanksgiving. People may constantly fall short, but they give us something to try to achieve. There is an element of self loathing and hatred in some of these answers that is chilling.

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grayling646
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:30pm
Hey. Does anyone know where I can get some of those ear rings?

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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:49pm
  Should be able to find saucers like those in any China shop, or the dish section of almost all department stores.
  
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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:25am
  Sam Ash… in the “drum” section.
  
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PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:30pm
We should teach them the truth! That’s it is a day to thank God for the blessings that He provides for us to have a free nation where the blessing of hard work and then the abundance that hard work and God provides for each and every one of us. This story is enough to really piss me off!

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- AnOregonian
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 10:32am
  Agreed!
  
  Being a descendant of 3 mayflower compact signers (Stephen Hopkins, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty) I find this revisionist history offensive. As written by William Bradford the harvest fest of 1621 was indeed a Godly blessing, An English-speaking Pawtuxet named Samoset helped the colonists form an alliance with the local Wampanoags, who taught them how to hunt local animals, gather shellfish and grow corn, beans and squash. The Plymouth colonists celebrated their first successful harvest with a three-day festival of thanksgiving.
  
  Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoags showed up at the colony with 90 warriors, (out numbering the surviving “pilgrim” males, 3 to 1) . The Chief and his entourage were invited to join in the celebration, where for three days they consumed nearly all their stores.
  
  The result of this event cemented an alliance between the Wampanoags and the colonists; where they understood each were bonded together and would mutually share in the times of need. This is the truth of Thanksgiving; lost to revisionist historians.
  
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DougHuffman
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:29pm
Count your Blessings and give thanks as a Christian or as an American but with some small understanding of our roots and founding. Hillsdale.edu College Constitution and History of Western Civilization free on-line.

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. Hope4Change Damn the progs.

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Zorch
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:29pm
We have a lot of work to do to try to undo the mental pollution the liberals brain-washed our children with. Two generations are already lost to the liberal democracy of the public school system, but with charter schools and Republican Governors, maybe we “save” the subsequent generations. I don’t know, but if those respondents are typical, this country is in “deep sneakers”.
Folks, read the book “The 4th Turning” and you’ll get a notion of what to expect for the foreseeable future. It’s not a book of predictions, but rather projections based on history and societal “evolution”.

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- Freedom from liberals
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:39pm
  the progressive hatred of America and the blame somebody else truly on display. If you hate America and what she stands for, please leave.
  
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FloridaFarmGirl
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:29pm
We all have so much to be thankful for. We need to celebrate each other and our country, not continue to divide and trash it. If people continue this way, we will never be a great country again. Where has whining and negativity gotten anyone? (Except Obama reelected).
I will not let people like this rent space in my head. My family and
I are going to have a wonderful Thanksgiving and I hope everyone’s family will as well. God Bless America!! Go Florida State Seminoles!!

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The Jewish Avenger
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:24pm
“What do you think we should be teaching America’s children about Thanksgiving?”

That God is the center of America: It’s creation, its foundation and its moral background.

Anyone who says otherwise would sell your soul for a hit/shot of the drug/drink of their choice.
Oh and they are lying.

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- Eastinfection
  Posted on November 22, 2012 at 5:29am
  Thanksgiving is not a religious holiday….
  
  it’s about reflecting on the things you have, rather than the things you covet.
  
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kickagrandma
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:23pm
There are Dias de la Accion de Gracias in Latin American countries. They are thankful for what they have and GOD’s DIVINE protection over them. Of course, only CHRISTIANS (including all denominations and the Catholic Church as well) and JEWS understand the blessings of DIVINE LOVE, INTERVENTION, GUIDANCE AND PROTECTION. ISRAEL and AMERICA have been so blessed by GOD.

Those who don’t know, don’t know THE AUTHOR, THE CREATOR, THE HEALER, THE FATHER.
Their answers reveal the spiritual vacuum in their lives.
We should be praying for them while there is yet time.

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meisterman41
Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:21pm
Thankful that there are good “Tax Paying People”(that’s you and me) out their providing them with their”Free-Stuff”! Do you got you your Obama Phone Yet?

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- kickagrandma
  Posted on November 21, 2012 at 7:27pm
  No, sir, to the obamaphone, but let me assure you when it arrives (when hell freezes over), I have a very special place to store it!
  
  HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU!
  
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