{"id":1054823,"date":"2021-11-25T12:28:43","date_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054823"},"modified":"2021-11-25T12:28:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-25T17:28:48","slug":"msnbc-hosts-real-history-of-thanksgiving-mythology-of-white-america-marking-settlers-genocide-and-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/msnbc-hosts-real-history-of-thanksgiving-mythology-of-white-america-marking-settlers-genocide-and-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"MSNBC Hosts \u2018Real History\u2019 of Thanksgiving: \u2018Mythology of White America\u2019 Marking Settlers&#039; \u2018Genocide and Violence\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmsnbc-hosts-real-history-of-thanksgiving-mythology-of-white-america-marking-settlers-genocide-and-violence%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1054823&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/GettyImages-1282434606-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\"><span>Author and attorney Gyasi Ross savagely attacked Thanksgiving, demanding white Americans \u201creturn the land\u201d taken and claiming they developed myths to feel good about themselves when in reality they brought \u201cgenocide and violence\u201d to natives. Ross says whites fearlessly kill Native and black Americans today through \u201cstate-sponsored violence\u201d against minorities and modern slavery through imprisonment, and says the celebration of \u201cwhite supremacy\u201d continues to plague the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Appearing on MSNBC\u2019s <\/span><i><span>The Cross Connection<\/span><\/i><span> with Tiffany Cross on Saturday, Ross\u2019 segment, titled \u201cThe Thanksgiving history you\u2019ve never heard,\u201d saw the advocate for Native peoples discuss the \u201cmyths around Thanksgiving\u201d as well as what the national holiday should mean for blacks and indigenous communities today.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Ross, who is of Native American ancestry, is a member of the Blackfeet Nation and the Suquamish Nation and has a penchant for storytelling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Introducing him as a <\/span><i><span>Cross Connection<\/span><\/i><span> \u201cfavorite\u201d and personal friend, Cross said Ross was there to deliver \u201cthe real story of Thanksgiving\u201d as well as some history \u201cyou probably never read in your school books. \u201c<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"10.052830188679\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Instead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence,&#8221; Gyasi Ross says about the history of American Thanksgiving. &#8220;That genocide and violence is still on the menu.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DLkocjrdqV\">pic.twitter.com\/DLkocjrdqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 MSNBC (@MSNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC\/status\/1462175533685428227?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Claiming the \u201cmythology of Thanksgiving closely mirrors the mythology of America,\u201d Ross said such mythology is merely \u201cthe image that white Americans love to see of themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhite settlers come to a strange land in good faith, bringing something of great value that enriches the people who are already here [while] the natives also bring something of immense value,\u201d he said. \u201cEqual exchange.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat closely mimics the mythology of white America,\u201d he added. \u201cIt is how America wants to see itself.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Yet, according to Ross, the reality of Thanksgiving is \u201cmuch different.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThe truth is pilgrims did not bring turkey, sweet potato pie, or cranberries to Thanksgiving,\u201d he said.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cThey could not,\u201d he claimed, adding \u201cthey were broke; they were broken; their hands were out; they were begging; they brought nothing of value.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Stating Thanksgiving was understandable because \u201cthere is much for white Americans to be thankful for,\u201d Ross expressed uncertainty over what indigenous people gained.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>\u201cI\u2019m still trying to figure out what indigenous people received of value,\u201d he said. \u201cInstead of bringing stuffing and biscuits, those settlers brought genocide and violence.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ross claimed such brutality is still rampant throughout America, as he accused the country of \u201cstate-sponsored violence\u201d against minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat genocide and violence is still on the menu as state-sponsored violence against Native and black Americans is commonplace and violent private white supremacy is celebrated and subsidized,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>He then listed the names of a handful of victims of fatal encounters between minorities and police that occurred over the last decade, claiming white Americans continue to fearlessly kill minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cFrom Stonechild Chiefstick to Mike Brown to Renee Davis to Breonna Taylor to Eric Garner, indigenous and black people are still being murdered by those paid to protect us,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom Ahmad Arbery to Trayvon Martin, white Americans are still killing Native and black Americans with no fear of reprisal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ross, who is also a lawyer, filmmaker, and rapper, accused America of perpetuating slavery through \u201cdisparate\u201d imprisonment of minorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThey brought chattel slavery to Africans and Native people that still happens through the prison industrial complex that imprisons the descendants of enslaved Africans and natives at far disparate numbers,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat is the reality of Thanksgiving,\u201d he added.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Claiming that many continue to wait \u201cfor white Americans to bring some value,\u201d Ross demanded America live up to its ideals while paying reparations for the theft of native land, labor, and children.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStill waiting for white America to match the mythology of Thanksgiving: freedom, justice, equality, reparations for two and a half billion acres of stolen native land, reparations for 246 years of stolen labor, reparations for stealing native children,\u201d he said.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He concluded by calling to \u201cstop the killing\u201d and \u201ctheft\u201d which is \u201cstill happening.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cReturn the land; match the mythology,\u201d he said. \u201cThen, and only then, we can all be equally thankful.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, prominent voices took to social media criticizing <\/span><i><span>MSNBC<\/span><\/i><span> and the \u201canti-American\u201d message it broadcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201c@msnbc corporate message: Thanksgiving sucks,\u201d wrote Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cCome for the lies; stay for the anti-American hate,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.1951219512195\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MSNBC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@msnbc<\/a> corporate message: Thanksgiving sucks.<\/p>\n<p>Come for the lies; stay for the anti-American hate. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MaT5cQaqDy\">https:\/\/t.co\/MaT5cQaqDy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tedcruz\/status\/1462526076266102797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThey\u2019re coming for Thanksgiving,\u201d wrote Erielle Davidson, senior policy analyst at the Jewish Institute for National Security of America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNothing is sacred to the left,\u201d she added. \u201cIt must all be burned down.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.8947368421053\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">They&#8217;re coming for Thanksgiving. Nothing is sacred to the left. It must all be burned down. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JeY1gAnIqu\">https:\/\/t.co\/JeY1gAnIqu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Erielle Davidson (@politicalelle) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/politicalelle\/status\/1462540157295505410?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cDon\u2019t tell us there\u2019s no hate-America faction in U.S. media,\u201d <\/span><span>veteran national and foreign correspondent Andrew Malcolm <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AHMalcolm\/status\/1463389355419090959\">wrote<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cNothing like some revisionist history to shame white people on Thanksgiving,\u201d <\/span><span>the Conservative Tribune <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conserv_tribune\/status\/1463273164117458954\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cLeave it to @MSNBC to try to steal the joy out of #Thanksgiving by trying to shame white people,\u201d <\/span><span>author Randy DeSoto <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RandyDeSoto\/status\/1462923893023264769?s=20\">wrote<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis MSNBC Thanksgiving message is brought to you by the same people that tell you CRT is just about \u2018teaching accurate history,\u2019\u201d wrote Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC).<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2608695652174\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This MSNBC Thanksgiving message is brought to you by the same people that tell you CRT is just about &#8220;teaching accurate history.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QEgXjZnSrP\">https:\/\/t.co\/QEgXjZnSrP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepDanBishop\/status\/1462898263061778440?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>The attack on Thanksgiving comes as many on the left continue to depict American culture, heritage, and institutions as inherently racist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, the ACLU of Washington shared a post referring to the first Thanksgiving as a \u201ccelebration of murder.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.9457364341085\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Thanksgiving is based on myths that hide and erase the genocide that the United States is founded upon. What would it mean to tell a different story; an honest story?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShowUp4RJ?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ShowUp4RJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sRu8d7rKid\">pic.twitter.com\/sRu8d7rKid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ACLU of Washington (@ACLU_WA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACLU_WA\/status\/1463408957867761668?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>On Tuesday, radio host and columnist Michael Coard <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penncapital-star.com\/commentary\/celebrating-thanksgiving-is-celebrating-racist-genocide-michael-coard\/\"><span>published<\/span><\/a><span> an essay stating, \u201cCelebrating Thanksgiving is celebrating racist genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Earlier this month, Professor Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a cofounder of critical race theory (CRT), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/11\/10\/crt-co-founder-children-should-learn-u-s-ground-is-soaked-in-blood-of-theft\/\"><span>urged<\/span><\/a><span> youth to \u201cunderstand the ground upon which we stand is ground that\u2019s soaked in blood of theft.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/10\/spurs-popovich-slams-italian-american-support-columbus-day-like-germans-being-proud-hitler\/\"><span>attacked<\/span><\/a><span> Columbus Day, slamming his \u201cbackward\u201d hometown for marking the day while accusing the famed 15th-century explorer of initiating a \u201cnew world genocide\u201d and branding Italian-American support for honoring the day akin to Germans \u201cproud of Hitler.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In July, <\/span><span>the&nbsp;<\/span><i><span>Nation<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/07\/04\/far-left-nation-july-4-founders-our-nation-colonizers-american-exceptionalism-grounded-racism\/\"><span>published<\/span><\/a><span> an essay accusing Americans celebrating Independence Day of failing to \u201creckon with the fact that the founders of our nation were colonizers,\u201d adding that the U.S. has \u201crarely lived up to ideals.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last year, the official YouTube account on Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2020\/11\/26\/youtube-celebrates-unthanksgiving-honoring-indigenous-resistance\/\"><span>celebrated<\/span><\/a><span> what it called \u201cUnthanksgiving,\u201d an obscure holiday the far-left platform claims is meant to honor \u201cindigenous resistance.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><i><em>Follow Joshua Klein on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshuaklein_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JoshuaKlein<\/a><\/em><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and attorney Gyasi Ross savagely attacked Thanksgiving, demanding white Americans \u201creturn the land\u201d taken and claiming they developed myths to feel good about themselves when in reality they brought &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1054823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1054823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1054823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1054823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}