FUSsa-talk Mailing List: Fwd: Thoughts for Thanksgiving

[Robert Tapp (tappx001]

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> From: Robert Tapp <tappx001 [at] umn.edu>
> Date: November 13, 2009 5:38:48 PM CST
> To: Humanist Institute Discussion List <hidisc [at] humanistinstitute.org>
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> OK, it's a somewhat secular occasion for family celebration. But humanists 
> will want to make room for historical honesty. Those Pilgrims carried their 
> cross and sword to a new land that was more advanced than the ones they had 
> been fleeing. And they engaged here in genocide, and developed a culture 
> based on slavery.
> 
> A useful essay by William Loren Katz corrects some of the mythology their 
> descendants created, and 1491, a 2006 book by Charles C. Mann takes issue 
> with other racist myths about the <New> world.
> 
>       http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/111209a.html
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> http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Columbus/dp/1400032059/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1258154733&sr=1-1
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> Future generations will be better able to give thanks as we become more 
> honest.
> 
> Bob
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