Thanksgiving: White Guilt Trip

As we prepare to sit down to our Thanksgiving meal - a meal that begins and ends in prayer and reflection - I made a habitual trip to the PC to see what is going on in the world.

One of the many newsletters and sites I visit directed me to an article entitled No Thanks for Thanksgiving: Instead, we should atone for the genocide that was incited -- and condoned -- by the very men we idolize as our 'heroic' founding fathers.  Written by a Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin and published on alternet.com - a George Soros funded "progressive" web site, the article rehashes the old cliches about white Europeans slaughtering and driving indigenous people from their lands.  We've hear all this before with the usual conclusions of white guilt and hypocrisy.  This article step further, asserting (among other things) asserts:

"How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?"

If you want to read this perversion, you can find it here.

So among the many blessings on which we will reflect this afternoon, we will give thanks for freedom of the press and our right to express our opinions, no matter how egregious.

Of course, had a similar article been published in an equally obscure but conservative (or, heaven forbid, Christian) web site calling out Indian (read: native American) savagery toward white European settlers - or to the brutalities committed by one tribe (read: nation) against another, I suspect that many more of us would have heard about it.  Our freedom of expression in this country is, after all, under the watchful eyes of self-proclaimed guardians eager to remind of us of error and encourage our guilt.

Happy Thanksgiving.