PC morons strike again-mourn Thanksgiving

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Seattle public schools want a side of political correctness served on your Thanksgiving table.
Washington state's largest school district sent letters to teachers and other employees suggesting Thanksgiving should be "a time of mourning" for its Native American students.
Click here to view the report from FOX News' Dan Springer.
The memo, from Caprice Hollins, the district's director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, included an attachment to a paper titled "Deconstructing the Myths of 'The First Thanksgiving.'"
It includes 11 "myths" disputing everything from what was served at the first Thanksgiving (no mashed potatoes or cranberries) and who provided the food to the nature of the Pilgrims themselves: Myth No. 3 calls the colonists "rigid fundamentalists" who came to the New World "fully intending to take the land away from its native inhabitants."
But what got the Internet abuzz was Myth No. 11: "Thanksgiving is a happy time." It was followed by "Fact: For many Indian people, 'Thanksgiving' is a time of mourning ... a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship."
Hollins would not defend her letter, but David Tucker, a spokesman for the district, said it was an effort to be sensitive to minorities in Seattle schools.
"One of the core elements in education is not just understanding your own life history but also those of others," he said.
But one Seattle-area tribe says Thanksgiving is not somber on the reservation but a time to see friends and family, as it is for other Americans.
Native Americans in the Northwest celebrate the holiday with turkey and salmon, said Daryl Williams of the Tulalip Tribes. Before the period of bitter and violent relationships between natives and their culturally European counterparts, they worked together to survive, he said.
"The spirit of Thanksgiving, of people working together to help each other, is the spirit I think that needs to grow in this country, because this country has gotten very divisive," he said.
Nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Medved was more blunt.
"The notion that now you have a major school system sending out a message that, no, rather than expressing thanks we should emphasize guilt on this holiday — that is sick, it is destructive and it is anti-American."
Seattle Public Schools has been in the news before, not always for the performance of its students.
The U.S. Department of Education investigated in April after the district spent part of a federal Smaller Learning Communities grant to send 20 students to the "Eighth Annual White Privilege Conference."
After complaints last year, the district removed from its Web site a definition of racism that claimed planning ahead and individualism were examples of cultural racism.

Will it never end?

[lurkur]

More FOX News drivel that blows up any criticism of the "USA is #1 and was granted by God to Americans" into a national crisis or threat against the country. They did the same thing last year or the year before with what Bill O'Liely called "War on Christmas." It's a way to get people to unify in a xenophobic manner because they think they (or their 'values') might be under attack. It also intends to discourage people who disagree with the majority to be silent, lest they be castigated as treasonous.

Did anyone say that Thanksgiving should be ended? NO. From what this says, someone sent an e-mail to other staff members (NOT to students) that gives factual information and also asks people to remember the native peoples who participated in Thanksgiving whose populations have been decimated by the growth of the USA.

When you teach American as all happy, triumphant, and rejoicing instead of presenting different sides of the story, it's not history, it's propaganda. FOX News knows all about this.

[Grimmlok]

"The notion that now you have a major school system sending out a message that, no, rather than expressing thanks we should emphasize guilt on this holiday — that is sick, it is destructive and it is anti-American."

Heaven forfend someone take an accurate look at history instead of waving a fucking flag around.

Sugar coating life + ignoring reality = American?

[twitchy]

"guilt............................................ ......................... is anti-American."

[lurkur]

"guilt............................................ ......................... is anti-American."

OMG, it's all right there. That says it all. Holy fuck.

[Mira]

Heaven forfend someone take an accurate look at history instead of waving a fucking flag around.

Sugar coating life + ignoring reality = American?

^^What he said.

[buttmunch]

Grimm nailed it this time.

[Sm0kah0ntas]

More FOX News drivel that blows up any criticism of the "USA is #1 and was granted by God to Americans" into a national crisis or threat against the country. They did the same thing last year or the year before with what Bill O'Liely called "War on Christmas." It's a way to get people to unify in a xenophobic manner because they think they (or their 'values') might be under attack. It also intends to discourage people who disagree with the majority to be silent, lest they be castigated as treasonous.

Did anyone say that Thanksgiving should be ended? NO. From what this says, someone sent an e-mail to other staff members (NOT to students) that gives factual information and also asks people to remember the native peoples who participated in Thanksgiving whose populations have been decimated by the growth of the USA.

When you teach American as all happy, triumphant, and rejoicing instead of presenting different sides of the story, it's not history, it's propaganda. FOX News knows all about this.

VERY WELL SAID!