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Oct. 13th, 2003 03:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
primroseburrowsTo all my Canadian friends:
Today I'm counting my blessings in celebration with you instead of observing the Holiday That Must Not Be Named (you know, the C-word. Eesh).
Besides, your Thanksgiving date makes more sense than ours. The harvest has been loong gone by the fourth Thursday in November(not that I won't be scarfing down Mother's mashed potatoes when the time comes).
What cheer, Canada!
Today I'm counting my blessings in celebration with you instead of observing the Holiday That Must Not Be Named (you know, the C-word. Eesh).
Besides, your Thanksgiving date makes more sense than ours. The harvest has been loong gone by the fourth Thursday in November(not that I won't be scarfing down Mother's mashed potatoes when the time comes).
What cheer, Canada!
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Date: 2003-10-13 02:49 pm (UTC)Calling all Caucasian slaves "indentured servants" is revisionist history as well.
If your family can trace its roots in the US back before 1760, there's a good chance that you have ancestors that were brought here as slaves.
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Date: 2003-10-13 02:57 pm (UTC)According to A Peoples' History, white servants were treated as bad as black ones, early on. Then the People in Charge decided that it would be a Very Bad Thing if the white and black servants/slaves got together and realised they outnumbered their masters. So, the white servants were treated better, were made higher status-wise, and were tought to think of black slaves as inferior. A bad thing for American history, a good thing for the White Guys running things.
Read the Redneck Manifesto.
Date: 2003-10-13 03:01 pm (UTC)African slaves cost more. White slaves were actually treated worse as a result. Less overhead.
My point is, racism continues to be construct of The White Guys in charge so that they may continue their economic slavery of all working class people.
But that's a whole 'nother story, isn't it?
Re: Read the Redneck Manifesto.
Date: 2003-10-13 06:04 pm (UTC)Re: Read the Redneck Manifesto.
Date: 2003-10-13 06:29 pm (UTC)There's also a band named The Redneck Manifesto but I don't know anything about them.
Fat people and poor white folks (which are usually the same people) are the only societal subset that it's OK to ridicule these days. Jim Goad is an interesting character, for sure, but this is an interesting book.
Re: Read the Redneck Manifesto.
Date: 2003-10-14 05:26 am (UTC)