A day of gratitude or mourning?: Last December 16, we marked the 400th Anniversary of the Pilgrims' disembarking in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and this year we celebrate the quatercentenary of the first Thanksgiving feast.
But as this article in the Pilot tells us, the Wamponoags won't be celebrating. I think it's a shame; we need to celebrate our survival. But the native Americans feel they can't celebrate the Pilgrims' survival. With the arrival of the Pilgrims came the beginning of their genocide.
But if the Pilgrims didn't come, do you think the American Indians could have lived as they were, indefinitely? Sooner or later, someone else would have come and done worse.
What happened to the American natives is a tragedy. History is overburdened with tragic stories.
Move on. Moving on doesn't mean you forget. Learn from what happened. Don't let it happen again. Nurturing injustice just grows bitter resentment that hinders your success. In fact, you are hurting yourself. Focus on the future. Make the world better than before.
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