Rethinking Thanksgiving

Written By: Joseph Farah  |  Posted: Wednesday, November 10th, 2010

Thanksgiving is later this month, and, I suspect, many of us will have much to be thankful for this year - as our country tries to right itself from some terrible mistakes.
One of the hallmarks of Thanksgiving when I was a child was the school play commemorating the Pilgrims' harvest festival that we often consider as the inspiration for our modern holiday.
In those participatory lessons 40 or 50 years ago, students portrayed the European Pilgrim settlers in search of religious freedom as well as indigenous native Americans who, as history tells us, gathered for a harvest festival to give thanks to God for their blessings.
What are those school plays like today? What do American kids learn today about the Pilgrims? What is taught about the historical meaning of Thanksgiving?

Ironically, you would think the multiculturalists would look at that first harvest festival as a validation of their hope and aspirations for the way diverse peoples could gather together in love, peace, cooperation and harmony - because that's exactly what happened at Plymouth.
But that's not the case at all.

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