Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Thanksgiving?

While President, George Washington gave emergency financial and military relief to French slave owners in Haiti to suppress a slave rebellion. President Washington also signed bills into law that allowed slave owners to recapture their slaves in any state. And when plans were made to sell off one of his female slaves and separate her from members of her family, that slave ran off and made it into the north. When that female slave wanted to discuss her situation with Washington, he said he would not deal with a slave as an equal. He personally owned as many as 300 slaves.
This is the President that made Thanksgiving a national holiday exclusively for white people. Another man made holiday designed to feign spirituality, give faint praise to some God, and to positively impact the economy. I often wonder how the sin of gluttony glorifies God. And there will be considerably more football watched than prayer.
Americans…no one can match our self righteous ingenuity.

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