{"id":386599,"date":"2018-11-26T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-thanksgiving-racist-college-students-react-video\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T12:07:12","slug":"prison-planet-com-is-thanksgiving-racist-college-students-react-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-is-thanksgiving-racist-college-students-react-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Is Thanksgiving \u2018racist\u2019? College students react (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11551\"><strong>Campus Reform<\/strong><\/a><br \/>November 22, 2018<\/p>\n<p><strong>The University of Oregon marked the lead up to Thanksgiving with an event \u00a0aimed at \u201cdecolonizing\u201d the holiday, which the university labeled as a \u201ccelebration\u201d of \u201congoing genocide.\u201d The event, titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/?ID=11544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thanks But No Thanks-giving<\/a>,\u201d was supported by some students, but others weren\u2019t fully on board with the message the event communicated. \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To find out what students at the University of Oregon had to say about this topic, <em>Campus Reform\u00a0<\/em>Oregon Campus Correspondent Josiah Tejada asked a number of students if Thanksgiving is \u201cracist\u201d or a \u201ccelebration\u201d of genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s definitely a racist history to Thanksgiving and that should probably definitely be addressed more in education,\u201d one student said. Another student told <em>Campus Reform<\/em>, \u201cthe whole concept with, like, taking land and assigning a value to it through cost is, like, it was different through European cultures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><center><span class=\"fr-video fr-fvc fr-dvi fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QGMjNJa4Xbk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/center>Yet another student characterized Turkey Day as \u201cracist,\u201d because \u201cwe\u2019re celebrating taking away land from Natives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be not celebrated, but if we can change it to instead of feeding ourselves maybe feeding the natives or donating to natives. Do we really need a giant feast?\u201d one student opined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly, like, I\u2019m not super educated on the topic but I just know that it has to do with the way the settlers treated the Natives who lived here,\u201d a respondent said.<\/p>\n<p>Another student noted that while there are \u201chints\u201d of colonial imperialism in the history of Thanksgiving, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t necessarily call it a racist holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the more important part is more the message of Thanksgiving, to be thankful for what you have, thankful for the people around you who are willing to help you,\u201d one student pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>      <!-- END CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:#333; font-size:11px;\">This article was posted: Thursday, November 22, 2018  at  7:05 am<\/p>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/>\n<hr class=\"dotted_line\"\/><!-- share and follow...<\/div>\n\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/is-thanksgiving-racist-college-students-react-video.html\">Read more<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus ReformNovember 22, 2018 The University of Oregon marked the lead up to Thanksgiving with an event \u00a0aimed at \u201cdecolonizing\u201d the holiday, which the university labeled as a \u201ccelebration\u201d of \u201congoing genocide.\u201d The event, titled \u201cThanks But No Thanks-giving,\u201d was supported by some students, but others weren\u2019t fully on board with the message the event [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-386599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=386599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=386599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=386599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=386599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}