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THANKSGIVING GRACE 2024
Thanksgiving's our foundational ritual.
Cranberries, turkey, the menu's quite traditional.
Did that Pilgrim feast really happen, or is it largely fable?
Did Wampanoags truly welcome migrants to their table?
Toward the safety of these shores, refugees still stream,
Of a decent life for families, they desperately dream.
From climate's deadly impact, from drought and flood they flee-
From genocidal armies without mercy.
They're hungry for security and freedom to secure.
They risk their lives to reach our tarnished golden door.
Hondurans, Haitians, and Somalis now play the roles
Once filled by Jews and Irish, Sicilians and Poles.
Americans are forged from folks of every faith and hue,
Most of us descend from desperate migrants too!
So, Welcome them! In harmony all can thrive,
If we protect the Earth, our precious common hive.
Let's lift our cups in Hope that freedom will endure
And though it seems impossible, let's put an end to war.
David Kessler
https://nativephilanthropy.candid.org/events/thanksgiving-day-massacres/
Connecticut massacre leads toThanksgiving.
Dr. Gloria Emeagwali
Professor of History/African Studies, CCSU
Chief Editor- "Africa Update"
https://sites.ccsu.edu/afstudy/archive.html
Gloria Emeagwali's Documentaries
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www.africahistory.net
Founding Coordinator, African Studies, CCSU
From: 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com>
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Dear Yahaya Danjuma, Thanks for the history lessons: 'I think Lincoln was unifying the nation by superceding state Thanksgiving days with a national one. Virginia had a Thanksgiving in 1619, before the Massachusetts one that figures in the US's historical myth of Thanksgiving. And there were sporadic, impermanent national Thanksgivings in the years between.'
Biko
--On Wednesday 27 November 2024 at 05:42:07 GMT-5, John Edward Philips (Yahaya Danjuma) <yahaya....@gmail.com> wrote:
I think Lincoln was unifying the nation by superceding state Thanksgiving days with a national one. Virginia had a Thanksgiving in 1619, before the Massachusetts one that figures in the US's historical myth of Thanksgiving. And there were sporadic, impermanent national Thanksgivings in the years between.
Christmas also became a national holiday as a result of the Civil War. Before then some states didn't celebrate it.
Thanks for remembering that this national holiday really goes back to Lincoln and the Civil War. Have a happy one.
On Nov 25, 2024, at 03:47, 'Biko Agozino' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafric...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
It is Thanksgiving week. It was first proclaimed as a public holiday by Lincoln in 1863 soon after the emancipation proclamation to end slavery and mobilize over two hundred thousand African Americans to help defend the Union. Was Lincoln thanking the Africans for helping to save the Union? Happy Thanksgiving, What are you thankful for this year?
Biko—
John Edward Philips, Professor EmeritusInternational Society, College of Humanities, Hirosaki University"Homo sum; humani nihil a me alienum puto." -Terentius Afer
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