When I asked John M about thanksgiving and how he chose to spend his Thanksgiving he didn’t seem too enthusiastic.

“Smoking my cigar, or peace pipe as some may call, watching TV, and kickin’ back” is how he explained it. “Nothing out of the ordinary.” So I followed and asked “no special dinner or anything then?”

John M replied and said that he shouldn’t celebrate thanksgiving anyway. The whole holiday was the biggest rip-off in United States history as he explains. Nothing more than a fabricated holiday to hide the truth, that European colonists stole the natives land, slaughtered their people, and enslaved their women and children.

John M, a local resident of New York in his youth, admits that American history was truly his favorite subject while in high school. He first learnt about thanksgiving’s actual history from his Jewish professor who was a former holocaust Jew in German concentration camps. This professor went on to say that the immigrants from Europe, who were actually the criminals and offenders from Europe, simply came to America, saw what they wanted, and grabbed it.

This is backed by historical evidence; one perfect example is the acquisition of Manhattan Island which was a former Native American reservation for a mere $500.00. John M despises the holiday and has since never put much thought into how he celebrates thanksgiving. “No biggie” he says, it’s just a perfect smoke screen to the truth.

And it's true, over the decades and centuries, history has a way of misconstruing the truth. Over time, actual historical data gets replaced by subjective opinions which become truth when rewritten in history books.

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