Journalism Professor: Thanksgiving Celebrates Our ‘Original Sin’

Forget all that turkey, stuffing and pumpkin pie, today should be a day of fasting and atonement for American “sin.” That’s according to Robert Jensen, a journalism professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Jensen, known for his hard-left politics, also calls Thanksgiving a “white-supremacist holiday.”

Jensen’s opinion piece “No Thanks for Thanksgiving,” appeared on the far-left, Soros-connected website Alternet on Thanksgiving eve. In it, he wrote how Native Americans suffered because of the “European invasion of the Americas.” He went on to compare the Founding Fathers to Nazi Germany. “How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?” he asked.

According to Jensen, Thanksgiving is “at the heart of U.S. myth-building. “But in the United States, this reluctance to acknowledge our original sin — the genocide of indigenous people — is of special importance today,” he explained.

Comments

Seeks_the_truth says:

November 23, 2012 at 9:07 pm

This article has went too far. To compare the Founding Fathers to nazi's is very offensive!
Our children should be taught the facts surrounding thanksgiving, but don't spread propaganda like this article does.

Edwardkoziol says:

November 23, 2012 at 10:18 pm

It amazes me that people like this left wing piece of shit writes stuff like this.Who put the first people on this continent supposedly they migrated from Europe and Asia by way of Russia into Alaska.So were the first people here Indians who the hell knows but we do know that the Spanish,French,English,Portugese,Italians, Vikings all came to America in search of gold and anything else they could get there grubby little paws on.We know how they all screwed the Indians but for this ass to make the founding fathers nazi is dumb.I think he's the nazi