Thread: The Pigrims were not Nazis, racists, or Slavers!

When I read this quote in this article this morning it made my blood boil.

Comments like these exemplify the mindsets and teachings we are seeing manifest in the ranks of the millions of illegal aliens in our nation and their leftist supporters!

Our culture, heroes, holidays, and the entire existance of our nation is under assault from people like this!

It is time to fight back America!

"It's demeaning," Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter's teacher. "I'm sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation's history."

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Claremont parents clash over kindergarten Thanksgiving costumes
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-139049-thanksgiving.html

W

They're crazy...literally. It's a strange paranoia that is driven to condemn anything that even hints of demeaning a minority.

Originally Posted by gofer

They're crazy...literally. It's a strange paranoia that is driven to condemn anything that even hints of demeaning a minority.

It's not paranoia. It is brutal hatred.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Originally Posted by gofer

They're crazy...literally. It's a strange paranoia that is driven to condemn anything that even hints of demeaning a minority.

It's not paranoia. It is brutal hatred.

W

That's exactly what it is! A "brutal" hugo chavez, socialist style, hatred of the United States and everything we stand for!

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

It's not paranoia. It is brutal hatred.

W

I agree W. Thanksgiving shows American Indians in a positive aspect, and actually illustrates how the first European settlers and American Indians got along for 80 years to the mutual benefit of both groups. Yes later conflicts arose between the Europeans and Indians but those were not much different than the conflicts Indians had among themselves or with the first European settlers that arrived over 20,000 years ago but then disappeared after the American Indians arrived on this continent.

Certainly American Indians can gripe about all the treaties the US Government has not honored with them but anything beyond that is as you say, "brutal hatred". This lady and her friends are a hate group no different than LaRaza or the KKK.

W. you need to read Rick Casey's piece, in the Houston Chronicle today titled:
"I Give Thanks for Illegal Immigrants"
..."I have a particular group of illegals in mind,but I confess that my gratitude to them does color my view of most other illegals." I refer to the liars,debtors,opportunists and criminals who flooded into Texas in the first half of the 19th century,and then wrested the land from Mexico"
ETC.....
More self white-loathing...
I hope the recession will sends all our Marxist indoctrination brainwashing universities into exile.

I prefer the V-Dare pesspective that the Pilgrims proved to be the better indians...

What drives these people to hate like this?? I can't figure out the inner motivation and it's always somebody, other than the supposed offended party, that does the protesting. In other words, it's probably not an Indian that was offended but some snob, meddling white person with a chip on their shoulder...a sorta surrogate "offendee."

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS
Kindergarten Pilgrim, Indian costumes banned
District cancels Thanksgiving tradition after parent calls paper outfits 'racist'

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Posted: November 25, 2008
1:35 pm Eastern


By Drew Zahn
© 2008 WorldNetDaily



Children in typical, construction-paper Thanksgiving costume

Following protests from offended parents, district officials have told kindergarteners from two schools that they cannot wear construction-paper Pilgrim and Native American costumes to their Thanksgiving festivities.

Over the past four decades, children at the Condit and Mountain View elementary schools in Claremont, Calif., have alternated visiting each other to share a Thanksgiving feast and play day. The visitors dress as Native Americans, the host class as Pilgrims.

After a letter from an angered parent and a heated school board meeting, however, the costumes are no longer allowed.

"It's demeaning," Michelle Raheja, the mother of a kindergartner at Condit Elementary School, wrote to her daughter's teacher. "I'm sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation's history."

Raheja, an English professor who specializes in Native American literature and whose mother is a Seneca, says kindergartners wearing fringed, brown vests and feathers constitutes "dressing up as a racist stereotype."

Other parents in Claremont, however, are outraged, contending adults should not use kindergarteners to make political statements.

"I was really upset with what is going on with the Thanksgiving feast," said Rose Ruth, a Mountain View grandparent, as reported by the Claremont Courier. "I am part Native American, and I am not offended because the children are dressing up. What offends me is that one percent can come in and dictate to the rest of us what we can do and what we cannot do.

"And now the kindergarten costumes that they made now have to go home, and they can't wear them," said Ruth. "This is about the children, and they're only 5 years old. They're not adults; they're not trying to do anything wrong."

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Kathleen Lucas, a Condit parent of Choctaw heritage, told the Los Angeles Times her son – now a first-grader – still wears the vest and feathered headband he made for last year's Thanksgiving.


"My son was so proud," she said. "In his eyes, he thinks that's what it looks like to be Indian."

Why not take a minute right now and check out the very special items showcased in WND's "Thanksgiving Department."

At a heated meeting last week of the Claremont Unified School District board, however, the parents objecting to the costumes succeeded in making their case.

"I found it to be surprising that in 2008 that we still would ask children to dress up in racist stereotypes," said Raheja. "There are no other holidays in the school system where we are required to dress up as an ethnic or racial group. It's a cartoonish image and I think they can come up with alternatives to this dress-up while at the same time retaining the beautiful and meaningful spirit of the event."

Despite a vocal crowd in favor of the traditional costumes, the school board opted to ban the costumes from this year's joint Thanksgiving celebration.

The issue, however, may not be resolved. The Times reports some parents plan to send their children to school in costume anyway, doubting that administrators will force the children to take them off.

"She's not going to tell us what we can and cannot wear," Dena Murphy, whose 5-year-old son attends Mountain View, told the Times. "We're tired of [district officials] cowing down to people. It's not right."

Parent Stephanie Wilbur, a supporter of the costumes who said she was of Yaki descent and noted that her grandmother wore feathers, told the school board compromise might be possible but that the children who made their costumes for this year should not be disappointed by a sudden reversal of policy.

"I think the approach of this year with the cancellation and alteration was not done correctly," Wilbur said. "I think [the feast] should be followed through for this year. Next year, we should go back to the round table and sit with all the kindergarten teachers and then we can find something in between."




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It makes me sick to think people would by this bull and pick out only segments of our past they hate and make it the norm from the very beginning. Being since we are a nation of immigrants.....what's that say for how the rest of the world was if they fled HERE for freedom and oppertunity? It's beyond insane and people like this need to be put away.

"I found it to be surprising that in 2008 that we still would ask children to dress up in racist stereotypes," said Raheja. "There are no other holidays in the school system where we are required to dress up as an ethnic or racial group.

Well......Thanksgiving is an American Holiday....it's part of our heritage. Everyone doesn't go around dressed up as Pilgrims and Indians, it's something to help keep the children occupied with crafts as well as learning history and tolerance and how we might not have made it if it weren't for the help of the native Indians. I know when I went out west....they sure didn't mind wearing their sterotypical and ethnic costumes to make money from the tourists. Guess it's however you want to look at it. I went to Plymouth Plantation and we don't live and dress like that anymore and not all "immigrants" were just Pilgrims....but it is how it started and it was wonderful learning about it. Knowing how it started shows how far we came.

We didn't have holidays for everything, but we did dress up for certain things.......60's, 50's, favorite famous person, favorite sport, Shakespear plays, whatever......it's called FUN......no negative intentions ment, nothing racist ment......I mean in one breath they scream about cultural sharing and then scream when you do.