{"id":1746658,"date":"2022-11-21T10:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1746658"},"modified":"2022-11-21T10:32:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T15:32:32","slug":"the-anti-thanksgiving-activism-dividing-america-is-rooted-in-ungratefulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-anti-thanksgiving-activism-dividing-america-is-rooted-in-ungratefulness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Thanksgiving Activism Dividing America Is Rooted In Ungratefulness"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fthe-anti-thanksgiving-activism-dividing-america-is-rooted-in-ungratefulness%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=1746658&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--><p>Not all Americans celebrate Thanksgiving. Indeed, corporate media have eagerly reported on the so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/25\/1059212893\/native-american-tribes-are-gathering-in-plymouth-to-mourn-on-thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">National Day of Mourning<\/a>,\u201d during which liberal activists and indigenous peoples \u201cremember the suffering inflicted in the 1620s\u201d and mourn \u201cthe struggles that Indigenous people continue to face today,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/25\/us\/national-day-of-mourning-race-deconstructed-newsletter\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to CNN<\/a>. A few years ago, Salon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2018\/11\/22\/have-millennials-stopped-celebrating-thanksgiving\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published an article<\/a> on millennials \u201cgrowing weary about our collective celebration of Thanksgiving.\u201d The author of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/why-im-not-celebrating-thanksgiving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2020 Vogue article<\/a> declared \u201cThis year, however, I\u2019m finally choosing not to be thankful, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not surprising that such protests are gaining in popularity among young Americans. An entire generation of Americans has been <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/07\/14\/todays-kids-despise-authority-thanks-to-a-disastrous-duo-lockdowns-and-crt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">catechized in anti-racist political activism<\/a>, their consciences malformed to constantly scrutinize every aspect of our culture for signs, however tenuous, of bigotry, colonialism, patriarchy, or white supremacy. Thanksgiving, young activists assess, seems guilty of all of the above, and thus must be defamed, dismantled, and replaced, much as innumerable other symbols of national unity have already been toppled. But is the activist narrative about Thanksgiving accurate? And if we repurpose or jettison the holidays that most effectively communicate our national identity and civil religion, what will replace it?<\/p>\n<p> <strong>A Holiday of Gratitude<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>We typically think of Thanksgiving as a commemoration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/thanksgiving\/first-thanksgiving-meal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a meal 401 years ago<\/a> between recently-arrived English settlers and indigenous peoples in what is now New England. That 1621 event marked the Pilgrims\u2019 first autumn harvest, as English settlers reaped the bounty of crops planted with the help of their Native American neighbors. And it truly was an exercise in true neighborly charity: colonists <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/thanksgiving\/first-thanksgiving-meal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">may have been outnumbered by more than two to one<\/a> by the Native Americans in attendance, including a local chief, Massasoit.<\/p>\n<p>Yet it was not until the Civil War that the event became an officially recognized national holiday. Before the war, a New England woman named <a href=\"https:\/\/www.history.com\/news\/abraham-lincoln-and-the-mother-of-thanksgiving#:~:text=After%20more%20than%20three%20decades,some%20changes%20remained%20in%20store.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sarah Josepha Hale<\/a> \u2014 author of \u201cMary Had a Little Lamb\u201d \u2014 lobbied state and federal officials to create a fixed, national day of thanks on the last Thursday of November. Hale believed that such a holiday might help ease rising tensions and divisions between northerners and southerners.<\/p>\n<p>On October 3, 1863, a few months after the Battle of Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation: \u201cI do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, \u2026to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving.\u201d Lincoln\u2019s emphasis was expressly focused on gratitude towards God. He wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him \u2026, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only in America are anti-American activists given such liberty to express their disdain for everything our nation represents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":658,"featured_media":1746661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1746658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746658","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\/658"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1746658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1746658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1746661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1746658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1746658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1746658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}