As we in the USA celebrate Thanksgiving, how many of us give any thought to the Pilgrims being among the first illegal immigrants to what is now "our" country? Or that they might not have survived without the aid of the people who had already settled here.
Anonymous
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History often gets selective and bent to please a personal perspective.
We "bought" Manhattan Island from a people that did not believe land can be owned by people.
For 200 years we called them Indians, but they are not from India. They were here first.
We won mostly with diseases we brought in with us.
veni vidi vici (Latin) - I came, I saw, I conquered
Christopher Columbus was not really an "Explorer". He was a capitalist.
The real Thanksgiving-
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/opinion/thanksgiving-history.html
"What is widely viewed as the first Thanksgiving was a three-day feast to which the Pilgrims had invited the local Wampanoag people as a celebration of the harvest.About 90 came, almost twice the number of Pilgrims. This is the first myth: that the first Thanksgiving was dominated by the Pilgrim and not the Native American. The Native Americans even provided the bulk of the food, according to the Manataka American Indian Council."
Anonymous
I thought of just that myself actually.
Anonymous
That's why my native American friend calls it "welfare day for the white man".
shroud
well first the native's didn't have any immigration laws so there were no " first illegal immigrants"
and it should make you understand that we need to control how many immigrants come to this country, so that it does not happen to us
Anonymous
Well said.