Pamela Paul: 'Boiled down to its essentials, Thanksgiving is a holiday about shared gratitude. We could just think about the 'thanks' in Thanksgiving for a change.'
Alyssa Harris, a member of the Mashpee Wampanoags and a museum educator at Plimoth Plantation, a living history exhibit, sits in a corn watch tower as visitors walk through the Wampanoag Homesite, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, in Plymouth, Mass. A disease outbreak that wiped out large numbers of the Native inhabitants of what is now New England gave the Pilgrims a beachhead in the "New World.
No sooner was Donald Trump voted out than we had a new thing — the threat of death — to antagonize the proceedings. With the government urging Americans to stay home, Thanksgiving 2020 was a potential superspreader event extraordinaire — and one reserved exclusively for family members.
Or maybe it all just makes you angry and resentful! What has happened to your cherished American tradition, you wonder? Must everything be problematic? Ye olden holidays, they are a-changin’. For the past two years, President Joe Biden has issued a proclamation naming the second Monday in October, also known as Columbus Day, Indigenous Peoples Day in order to “celebrate indigenous history and our new beginning together, honoring Native Americans for shaping the contours of this country since time immemorial.
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