inventing thanksgiving
From Inventing Thanksgiving by Brian Awehali:
“For me, this now agreed upon Thanksgiving symbolizes first and foremost the alarmingly subjective nature of history, which, as Howard Zinn reminds us, is almost always written by the winners. It symbolizes the triumph of football over religion, and of American commercialism over virtually everything standing in its wasteful path. And perhaps most importantly, it symbolizes the lies and half-truths on which a profoundly diverse country must depend in order to prop up the specious concept of a broadly shared civil religion or national identity.”
Read the entire article at:http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featbrasel_144.shtml
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I found it.
And somehow it was too easy. I imagine this is how Hemingway must’ve felt.
