pilgrims, indians and schools

so i picked my kindergartner up from school…we are having the normal ‘what’d you learn…yeah…really…okay, use it in a sentence…she did what…that’s funny’ drive home chatter when she informs me that they are of-course learning about the origins of thanksgiving-

let me pause for a moment and clarify, i love thanksgiving. i love it as a holiday to get together with family, cook too much, eat too much, gain a pant size, watch some football, listen to kids screaming and running around the house, laughing, wine drinking…good times. i do not love the origins of thanksgiving, and have avoided recognizing the holiday and the history as being related until this year.

 anyway….so she tells me that the pilgrims were very nice people, who helped the indians….

‘helped?….did your teacher say how they helped?’

‘yes, she said that they taught the indians how to read and talk and make stuff. they taught them how to act and how to take care of their families. it was nice.’

whatthefuckindabullshitizthat??

what g-d year IS this? why are our children being taught the same bubble gum and bullshit history that we were taught years ago-has there been absolutely no progress in education what so fucking ever? i can’t wait to hear how they interpret slavery-let me guess, they went to africa and helped the poor people out of the jungle and gave them a chance by bringing them to america and teaching them how to talk and make stuff….it makes me sick to my stomach to think that this is why i am sending my kid to school…to be lied to and confused about how this world was and is….wtf?

i tried to keep quiet and accept the school’s version because she so enjoyed making her paper teepee…and i did…for almost five muntes before i felt compelled to correct the disneyfied version of our country’s history.

i explained to both of my children that the indians:

-were not from indian, they were from america and are the only natives of america making them native americans

-could talk just fine

-knew how to not only take care of their families, build what needed to be built, and how to cure many sicknesses and infact many of the same practices to cure ailments are in use today

-could read their language

-were trying to be nice to the pilgrims when they were almost entirely wiped out

-were tricked into wrapping their families with blankets that had be contaminated with small pox, including their children then forced to watch them die

-were scalped and killed like animals for fun and profit

-were driven out of areas were they could live happily into areas of the country that were barren and unable to grow food or thrive

 i explained to them that native americans never asked for or needed any help-they were just fine. i told her what the pilgrims did was like me going to someone’s house, pretending to be their friend, teaching them spanish, destroying their food, telling them to leave their house forever and when they said no, killing them-their entire family, and then living in their house, telling the world how i happened to ‘discover’ it.

they looked at me, then my oldest said…’okay, so the pilgim’s suck…what’s for dinner?’

Britney Spears dumps Kevin Federline … on tv

i no longer hate britney spears. i do hate k-fed-i heard him being called fed-ex – it sounds like he’ll only walk away with $360,000 over the next year + half of the sale of their malibu mansion and he’ll have to pay for his own attorney fee’s…go britney..go to hell kevin federline