Retrospect on Thanksgiving Day…
![David Horsey,davidhorsey.com,seattlepi.com
The truth of Thanksgiving](https://thumb.spokesman.com/EJ_MLmFA5TR-glJkBf3nHSQPO98=/810x0/media.spokesman.com/photos/2010/11/27/horsey-thanksgiving-truth.jpg)
Good morning, Netizens...
This morning's David Horsey cartoon makes a logical if not a factual statement about the United States Thanksgiving Day, in that most Americans have either dismissed or entirely forgotten the true history of the first Thanksgiving Day and everything that has transpired since. Most Americans, unfortunately, do not want to be reminded of the atrocities they committed in their juggernaut rumble through history.
However, it should be noted that, despite the bloody history of the whites versus Native Americans, those same Native Americans were busily killing one another, making members of other tribes into slaves and other travesties long before the original Thanksgiving Day ostensibly spent with the pilgrims. They were as bloodthirsty and as savage, in some cases, as that of the white man.
However, as any student of history will quickly confirm, Thanksgiving Day, the original Thanksgiving Day, could just as easily be a national day of mourning as it could be a celebration. All one has to do is perform a little digging into the ancient histories of the Native American tribes and how they ended up where they are today.
It is a sobering thought on Thanksgiving. Your results, of course, may differ.
Dave