Why We Celebrate Thanksgiving

Jamestown 1607, Wikipedia photo

As a naturalized American citizen who has experienced hunger and tyranny in the socialist dictatorship of the Communist Party, I would like to enlighten the "academic" from George Washington University, who stated recently that Thanksgiving is a day that "makes Native Americans feel like second class citizens," and that America is an "evil and oppressive country." If anyone should feel bad during Thanksgiving, it should be the millions of turkeys.

Here is why America truly celebrates Thanksgiving and shares an abundance of food with others less fortunate.

White settlers thanked God for helping the Jamestown Colony (a settlement established by English entrepreneurs in 1607) survive starvation from a low crop yield in previous years when the colony experimented with collectivist property (Socialism/communism) and commune work. They almost starved because some members worked harder than the slackers but the meager crop was shared equally.

When the land was divided again and given to each family to work individually (good ole Capitalism and private property), the colony thrived.

Thanksgiving is not just a celebration of a bumper crop and survival, it is the celebration of the triumph of Capitalism over Socialism/Communism in 1607 in the Jamestown Colony and later in other settlements such as Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Thanksgiving was a harvest festival for a bumper crop raised under Capitalist conditions following the colony's almost extinction by starvation under Socialism/Communism the previous years.

Plymouth Colony