Americans celebrated Thanksgiving and asked for God's blessing. How many thanked the Native Americans who made Thanksgiving possible almost 400 years ago?
I doubt very few. But, it was a Native American tribe that befriended the Pilgrims and Squanto, who was forced into slavery by a White Man who showed true Christian love and forgiveness by helping the floundering Pilgrims:
"Squanto, a member of the Pawtuxet tribe who had been kidnapped by an English sea captain and sold into slavery before escaping to London and returning to his homeland on an exploratory expedition. Squanto taught the Pilgrims, weakened by malnutrition and illness, how to cultivate corn, extract sap from maple trees, catch fish in the rivers and avoid poisonous plants. He also helped the settlers forge an alliance with the Wampanoag, a local tribe, which would endure for more than 50 years and tragically remains one of the sole examples of harmony between European colonists and Native Americans."
Naturally, the Native Americans were paid back by the White Man with treachery, disease and outright murder. History and non-whites and biological warfare against Native Americans.
This was carried out by good "White Christian Men". When people keep telling me how blessed America is, I wonder what are they smoking. Our White Christian Male leaders have been destroying Native Americans, African Americans, imprisoning Japanese Americans, mistreated Chinese and Latino Americans all in the "name of God" and somehow we are great and exceptional? At what? Killing and lying for our lifestyles? And our foreign policy is worse than our domestic one. So, if we were honest with ourselves and with our Maker, we would spend Thanksgiving Day thanking the Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims survive and we would ask for forgiveness for our sins and theirs.
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