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Today is Thanksgiving, and Americans across the nation will celebrate with bountiful meals and family gatherings. However, while many are celebrating, educators and schools are lamenting, pushing to “decolonize” the holiday.
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From Fox News:
As families across the U.S. gather on Thanksgiving to celebrate one of the nation’s most cherished national holidays, some educators and schools are lamenting the day, pushing back on its “colonial” roots, and incorporating diversity, equality and inclusion DEI into the holiday.
At the University of California, Davis, the California History-Social Science Project, which describes itself as “Resources & professional learning for K-12 history-social science,” hosted a Zoom event called “Decolonizing Thanksgiving in the Classroom.”
“We will discuss reframing classroom practices and rituals about Thanksgiving,” the event description explained. “Centering perspectives from Turtle Island (a name for North America used by some indigenous people) will help us decolonize Thanksgiving and spark new conversations about how to authentically make meaning of this holiday with our students.”
UC Davis isn’t the only school to push back on Thanksgiving. Fox notes that Washington University in St. Louis, a school known for its controversial DEI policies, promoted an event to highlight “the way different cultures recognize and understand Thanksgiving.” According to the school the event is a way to actively contribute to inclusive and equitable practices that influence individual and systemic change.”
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, meanwhile, invited students to a “Thanksgiving Myth-busting” event designed to explore the “narratives justifying land grabs via colonialism.” The school is also inviting students to attend a National Indigenous Day of Mourning rally at the location of the Mayflower’s landing.
Other schools are taking similar approaches. Across the nation, educational institutions are seeking to characterize Thanksgiving as a time of mourning, highlighting the day’s “painful legacy.” We know, however, that Thanksgiving is a day best spent remembering our nation’s proud history, enjoying time with family and friends, and thanking God for all He has done for us.
This Thanksgiving, let’s pray that Americans would put divisive politics aside and focus on the true meaning of the holiday.
How are you celebrating Thanksgiving this year? Share your prayers of thanksgiving below.
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Because the Author of the Bible, God Almighty, commands believers to “give thanks” in 1 Thessalonians 5:18, and throughout His Word, we will to do as He states:
“…give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
Lord God we come against all evil against our beloved nation and the people who have paved our way to freedom, for all the suffering of forefathers that came before us, you are still on the throne almighty God and we love and thank you Lord
DEI is satan’s agenda to steal the souls of those who fall for the lies. Just as satan has been doing since the beginning of mankind. God is in charge and His will be done. I trust in God. 🙏😇🙏❤️
Father, your word says in the last days 2 Timothy 3:1-5
But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
I pray that these people repent. They lament? They have food! They have homes! I have been in places where people do not have clean water or electricity. The poorest person in America has welfare and subsidized housing. These people are so ungrateful. Yes America has it homelessness but there are programs to help, secular and Christian, yet these people are ungrateful. All this is about is envy and greed. Please look at their motives. It is not have the Native people but themselves. In the case of the Pilgrims, they celebrated with the Indians. Yes it was wrong to move Indians off their land. That was greed, but theses Universities are only preaching hate and strife. I pray that they repent and come to know Yeshua before they die. He is the only peace we can know.
President Washington’s Proclamation 1789
‘Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor– and whereas both Houses of Congress have by their joint Committee requested me to recommend to the People of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.
Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be.’
Thank you Glenn, I love this.
To decolonialize Thanksgiving is to eliminate faith and thankfulness in God for His blessings. Without God there is NOTHING to be thankful for and there would be NO reason to have this Holiday.
thank you Carol, for sharing your beautiful testimony. It was such a blessing to me.. and I say yes and amen to your prayers for our educational system, which is the next generation, the future of America.
I am Thankful to GOD that my ancestors were brought from Africa to America as slaves! My parents and brothers and sisters and I are all saved to the Gospel of JESUS CHRIST which may not have happened if
we weren’t in America. We
could be in abject poverty
in Africa or be a Muslim or being murdered if we happened to become a Christian in Africa. I’m thankful that GOD has also given us a respite with
President Trump as our
President. The minute he won the election I felt the Peace of GOD in America. I still feel it as I pray for him and his family and his cabinet. “When the righteous rule, the people rejoice.” So on this Blessed Thanksgiving Day I give thanks to my GOD WHO “daily loads me with benefits.” I give thanks for America, the Blessed home of my birth. I give Thanks that I can freely witness to others about the Goodness and Saving Grace of JESUS CHRIST. I give thanks that “salvation through JESUS is for me and all of my house. FATHER GOD please send laborers to all of the misguided and delusional professors and teachers and others in our educational world to recognize that Thanksgiving is not just a day, but a state of being grateful daily in all things in JESUS MIGHTY NAME! Amen!
Beautiful testimony, Carol! Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I, too, am thankful for the USA, the land of my birth, and all the blessings it has afforded me and my family. It is not, nor does it have to be perfect for me to recognize how blessed I have been to call it my home. The overarching reason for its existence in YHVH’s plan is the spread of the Gospel. May we not lose sight of that, or we as a nation may perish.
Well said, Carol. We were all slaves to sin before being set free by the Prince of peace. May we choose to accept His gracious offer of forgiveness, eternal life, and lives of significance brcause He is the Captain of our soul. A blessed Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Stephanie B.
Oh my God, (declared in reverence) I believe you have blessed and rewarded Carol according to Your Word…she is FREE INDEED….as are all who confess as boldly as she. May the Love of Christ bind us all, may the Authority of the Holy Spirit empower us all and may we all never cease to Glorify You, our Triune God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Amen