OPINION Celebrating Thanksgiving and Columbus Day

I celebrate Thanksgiving! Family, food and friends. What's not to like? I like to entertain so I'm probably biased. But who doesn't love a party?

I tend to forget about Columbus day.
 
Judge Dread said:
No one celebrates it but everyone seems to say it is day that our family gets together. If you make it a family get together day than it is a form of celebration to me. There is nothing wrong with it and families should get together but let’s not act like it is for us. America( Thanksgiving is not celebrated anywhere else) has convinced you that you have to do something on that day. No one gets together for Labor Day. Please don’t act like you don’t feel compelled to do something on that day and if you don’t feel that way that I am just wrong and that is ok with me.
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People do get together for Labor Day though. My sister has a cookout at her house every Labor Day. I have a cookout at my house every Memorial Day. Any day where a majority of family members of off work is fair game for a family get together.
 
5th Letter said:
If you’re getting together on thanksgiving and having meals etc then you are celebrating it.
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Like I said, I can agree that people celebrate the holiday, but I disagree that black people celebrate the mythical origin of it as opposed to a more modern evolution of its meaning.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
Like I said, I can agree that people celebrate the holiday, but I disagree that black people celebrate the mythical origin of it as opposed to a more modern evolution of its meaning.
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Lol what are you talking about? My point is if you cook meals and invite people over on that day then you’re celebrating thanksgiving.
 
5th Letter said:
Lol what are you talking about? My point is if you cook meals and invite people over on that day then you’re celebrating thanksgiving.
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What is hard to understand about what I said? I agreed with you in that point. I was simply saying that I didn't agree that people were celebrating the original meaning of the holiday that "isn't for us" as some are claiming.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
I don't know. To me, to celebrate something, you have to actually acknowledge what it is. So I might agree that black people celebrate Thanksgiving to some extent, but I don't agree that black people in general celebrate the historical meaning of Thanksgiving. In my experience, Thanksgiving has taken on a more religious overtone. At least in my family and my wife's family, it's more about giving thanks to God for blessings than remembering some made up meal between Natives and Pilgrims.
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so can you take your lady out on vday and not acknowledge you took her out for that day but that you wanted to take her out because you wanted to do something with her?
 
a.mann said:
Look you can name that shit National Transmission Day with 3 day weekend off from work and Black folks will use that as an excuse to get together with family & friends
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so niggas will get together on david duke grand dragon day?
 
The Lonious Monk said:
What is hard to understand about what I said? I agreed with you in that point. I was simply saying that I didn't agree that people were celebrating the original meaning of the holiday that "isn't for us" as some are claiming.
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What is your idea of the original meaning of the holiday?
 
DOS_patos said:
so can you take your lady out on vday and not acknowledge you took her out for that day but that you wanted to take her out because you wanted to do something with her?
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Yeah, why wouldn't you be able to? If you and your lady regularly go out and do things together, it wouldn't suddenly become a celebration just because you're doing it on Valentine's. Now if you went above and beyond and did something particularly special that day, then I guess that could be viewed as a celebration of the holiday.

5th Letter said:
What is your idea of the original meaning of the holiday?
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Traditionally, the day has been treated as a commemoration of a sitdown between the Natives and Pilgrims. People who celebrate that are the ones that put on Thanksgiving Day parades that recount that event or meals that mimic the spread from that day or put up Native/Pilgrim decorations. I don't know any black people that do any of that.
 
Back in school, we used to get Pulaski day off... To this day I can't tell you who that is but if it means a day off, you can call it a celebration cause we grillin.

As far as Thanksgiving... Never once during our dinner do we stop and give thanks to pilgrims or even native Americans for that matter... So I wouldn't consider that observing the holiday.
 
The Lonious Monk said:
Yeah, why wouldn't you be able to? If you and your lady regularly go out and do things together, it wouldn't suddenly become a celebration just because you're doing it on Valentine's. Now if you went above and beyond and did something particularly special that day, then I guess that could be viewed as a celebration of the holiday.



Traditionally, the day has been treated as a commemoration of a sitdown between the Natives and Pilgrims. People who celebrate that are the ones that put on Thanksgiving Day parades that recount that event or meals that mimic the spread from that day or put up Native/Pilgrim decorations. I don't know any black people that do any of that.
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So when people prepare meals to commemorate a day when the pilgrims and the settlers had a feast what would you call that? Isn’t that celebrating the day? The best way to not celebrate the day is by not doing any of that stuff including preparing big dinners.
 
GOAT said:
Im native and my family does thanksgiving.

Its just a day everyone has off and family can get together and eat/drink together.

Nothing more nothing less
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Same here, Native and we eat for Thanksgiving but I ain't really into the "celebration" of it.

I stopped with Columbus day once I learned more about dude.
 
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