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If you enjoyed this article please check out the other articles by the talented writers of Science 2.0. With a base of reality let us celebrate what could've or should've happened next and try to do better. The first thanksgiving was a tale of people. We are all Americans, and our family history was not a fairy tale or a tale of evil. These are facts they don't fit either the woke narrative or the sleepy narrative (the opposite of being woke I suppose). Everyone who will soon in a generation or two share those heritages welcome to the family. Everyone who is a part of that family, everyone whom I share one or more of those heritages with is my family. The history of the United States of America is to me a history of a large family of people. I take this personally as a descendant of the first settlers in Jamestown, the Pilgrims, the 20 and odd Africans who were brought in 1619 and certain American Indians.

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By no latter than 1650 the racialization of English America was in full swing, and by 1700 it was complete. The same for some Black people who imported first as indentured servants having gained their own freedom, had such servants themselves. There were American Indians who were willing to own slaves of any race. Bad faith actors came latter, greedier, and more than willing to take from anyone White or Black or Red to enrich themselves. These first lands Plymouth colony and Jamestown Virginia colony were negotiated for in good faith. In the case of Both Jamestown and of the Pilgrims the original motives were only to find land and wealth. What you learn either from reading a Rush Revere book or a book that teaches that from the start the goal was to oppress others is wrong. The Puritans being virtuous and godly people come to civilize a “savage” land. Thanksgiving has become part of our culture war in America regarding a fairy tale about our foundational stories that ignores 1607-1620 in Jamestown, and mythologizes the Pilgrims as being the same as the latter Puritans.

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It could be argued that the Christian movement of the United States may owe more to the Puritans book banning, and witch trial having ways than to the Pilgrims who just wanted to be left alone.

The Jamestown colony remained loyal to the rightful King of England and so it was known as his old dominion as Virginia is sometimes called. The puritan leader of England a man named Oliver Cromwell who had been part of beheading King Charles I even banned having special Christmas church sessions.

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It was the Puritans who came latter and brought with them a sense of divine right to tell other people how to live, including the original Pilgrims. For their time the Pilgrims were the liberals while the Puritans were so conservative that Christmas dinner or Christmas mass were banned. The one on the right oppressed the one on the left too. The Pilgrims have a rock Puritans have a grandiose statue.