Thanksgiving is over, but woke lies live on, it appears, and left-wing Axios was caught pushing lies about Thanksgiving history to satisfy its far-left agenda.
During Thanksgiving week, Axios tried to push the claim that the local Wampanoag tribe was not actually invited to the famed feast that we celebrate as America’s first Thanksgiving. In fact, Axios claims that the “real” Thanksgiving story is one of “racial exclusion.”
Because, you know, the Pilgrims were evil white people, after all.
So, according to Russell Contreras, the supposed “Justice and Race reporter” at Axios — because, of course he is — the local Indians were not invited to the feast put on by the Pilgrims on that fall day in 1621. They only happened to stop by because “they heard gunshots” and wanted to see what the ruckus was all about, he wrote in his screed entitled, Axios Explains: Thanksgiving’s troubled history.
They weren’t invited, mind you, because the pilgrims were racists.
How do we now know this little-understood Thanksgiving “truth”? Because, Contreras says, the Partnership With Native Americans tells us so.
In his “reality check” points he wrote:
- According to the nonprofit group Partnership With Native Americans, the original feast lasted for three days and attendees ate fowl (but turkey wasn’t mentioned in the early descriptions).
- The Wampanoag showed up for the feast out of concern over gunshots rather than from invitation. (This was their land, after all).
Where did this “factoid” come from? According to Just Facts Daily, it came from some random woman named Ramona Peters who is not a historian.
Who is this all-knowing Ramona Peters? Apparently, she is the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. Peters says the Indians were not invited to dinner and the whole Thanksgiving story was a fiction invented by none other than Abraham “Honest Abe” Lincoln who dreamed it all up as a means to bring America together during the Civil War.
No, really.
And where did she come by these shocking tidbits of history? She hasn’t revealed any source, of course… but I am guessing it was her mommy, who is probably also a Native American activist, who told her these tales or white racism from 400 years ago.
Still, this uncorroborated account from a Native American activst that guts the Thanksgiving story is at odds with records actually written at the time of the original Thanksgiving feast.
Per Just Facts Daily:
Peters’ account is at odds with the first-hand witness of Edward Winslow, governor of the Pilgrim colony, which consisted of only 53 people at the time. He wrote that the Pilgrims “entertained and feasted” with the Indians for three days because, “by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”
That was 242 years before Abraham Lincoln established Thanksgiving as a national holiday, obliterating the accusation that Lincoln made it up.
Amusingly, even Peters admitted that her tribal cohorts also celebrate Thanksgiving just like the rest of America. So, apparently, they don’t realize it is racist, or something.
But Axios regurgitates this pap like it is 100 percent factual. No “fact checking” needed.
No wonder not one trusts the legacy media and its leftist accomplices like Axios.
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