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P.S.: Thanksgiving from 1864 on was SO MUCH about the North kicking Confederate ass in the service of freedom (not pilgrims and crap) that most Southerners didn't celebrate Thanksgiving at all -- until college football became more popular, and Southerners suddenly decided that game day was worth celebrating, and Americans unified around a common narrative. Really. And then of course we had to revise the narrative away from the Civil War to something everyone could share: pretending our nation wasn't predicated on genocide!

Maybe we shouldn't have turned Thanksgiving from a day celebrating the battle for civil rights into a Lost Cause fable.

Maybe we should reclaim the damn holiday by realizing it isn't about Pilgrims at all, and make it be about promoting justice and defeating fascism again.