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Thanksgiving: Why some Americans don't celebrate the controversial holiday
"Thanksgiving is considered by some to be a “national day of mourning”"
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Like Columbus Day, the holiday is viewed by many to be a celebration of the conquest of Native Americans by colonists.
Many Native Americans see Thanksgiving as an embellished narrative of “Pilgrims and Natives looking past their differences” to break bread.
Professor Robert Jensen of the University of Texas at Austin said: “One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.”"
"Thanksgiving is considered by some to be a “national day of mourning”"
"
Like Columbus Day, the holiday is viewed by many to be a celebration of the conquest of Native Americans by colonists.
Many Native Americans see Thanksgiving as an embellished narrative of “Pilgrims and Natives looking past their differences” to break bread.
Professor Robert Jensen of the University of Texas at Austin said: “One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting.”"