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In the U.S., Thanksgiving wasn't a national holiday until Lincoln proclaimed it so during the Civil War, and it had NOTHING to do with Pilgrims and EVERYTHING to do with courageously expending privilege to free the oppressed.

Here's what Lincoln thought we should be thankful for; it still applies today:
- The U.S. democracy surviving another year despite "unfriendly designs from abroad"
- "[V]ictories over the enemy, who is of our own household"
- Good health
- A growing free population due to "emancipation and... immigration"
- "[T]he labor of our workingmen... [receiving] abundant rewards"
-and-
- That "our minds and hearts ] were still filled] with fortitude, courage, and resolution sufficient for the great trial of civil war into which we have been brought by our adherence as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity."

This is the Thanksgiving I'll celebrate: that we're still kicking ass against seditionists and traitors, fighting for the oppressed, and adhering as a nation to the cause of freedom and humanity.
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