On This Day of Mourning

<p>&ldquo;What to a slave is the Fourth of July?&rdquo; inquired Frederick Douglass, and I echo his sentiments. What to America&rsquo;s Indigenous communities is Thanksgiving?</p> <p>A day of feasting to commemorate a genocide. The fabrication of history to wipe the stain of slaughter from our collective minds. A day to remember when the White man came to exterminate scores of Indigenous people as though they were insects threatening the harvest.</p> <p>And indeed, a harvest it was, albeit a bloody one. America is a living testament to what can be built when entire groups of people are denied their humanity.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/illumination/on-this-day-of-mourning-ce9cc92d3524"><strong>Click Here</strong></a></p>
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