lets talk about Thanksgiving

Happy thanksgiving to everyone first of all. Thanksgiving is a holiday that has been commercialized in America. Today we don’t think about it origin or it’s true meaning, but a day where families reunite, have a dinner that includes turkey, mashed potatoes with gravy, and many other traditional foods. Sometimes people like to incorporate their own culture into the food. However, not many of us know about its true origin and are against this national holiday. My question is “should thanksgiving be seen as a day where families reunite and be thankful, or as a memorial for the genocide of the Native Americans?” As we have been learning about the relations between the Natives and the settlers, their relationship was quiet full of hate and the opposite of harmony.  The Native Americans were mistreated and killed by the hundreds. Society in America makes it hard for us to not celebrate this holiday because it has a new meaning to it. Everywhere you go there are little turkeys and pumpkins, with a banner that says happy thanksgiving. Celebrities wishing our families and us a happy thanksgiving, influencing our perspectives on the holiday itself. However, I personally like to think of the holiday as a day where our families get to come together and be thankful for each other. For me thanksgiving is everyday. Even though the Native Americans were killed by the hundreds, its important that we know about it and acknowledge the fact that it was wrong. But I think that we shouldn’t turn a day that everyone is happy on to a day where anger and grief is shown.