[:es][podcast]https:\/\/www.prisonradio.org\/sites\/default\/files\/audio\/uploads\/NoThanksforThanksgiving11-25-2013.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n
Por Mumia Abu-jamal<\/p>\n
Cada noviembre, cuando est\u00e1 programada el D\u00eda de Acci\u00f3n de Gracias, pienso en los pueblos de las Primeras Naciones (los llamados nativos americanos ) , y me pregunto c\u00f3mo se sienten con respecto a un d\u00eda festivo que oficialmente celebra su enorme generosidad, as\u00ed como su destrucci\u00f3n casi total.<\/p>\n
\u00bfQu\u00e9 es lo que tienen que agradecer?<\/p>\n
En 1863, el presidente Abraham Lincoln declar\u00f3 el primer d\u00eda festivo en 1863, y en la cultura popular estadounidense se asocia con una comida entre los abor\u00edgenes y los europeos a su llegada a este continente.<\/p>\n
En realidad, cuando los espa\u00f1oles llegaron a Am\u00e9rica del Sur, y los ingleses a Am\u00e9rica del Norte, no tardaron en lanzar campa\u00f1as de exterminio que llevaron a los holocaustos de las naciones ind\u00edgenas, tanto en el norte como en el sur.<\/p>\n
Su llegada fue la perdici\u00f3n de cientos de millones de personas cazadas, matadas de hambre, contagiadas con enfermedades y esclavizadas.<\/p>\n
Para ellas, el infierno ten\u00eda cara blanca.<\/p>\n
Hicieron tratado tras tratado con los \u2018indios\u2019, pero los hombres de cara p\u00e1lida violaron todos.<\/p>\n
Para los conquistadores espa\u00f1oles, los pueblos nativos serv\u00edan como trabajadores esclavizados que trabajaban hasta la muerte en las minas de plata o de oro. Para los anglosajones, los ind\u00edgenas eran superfluos. Lo que codiciaban eran sus tierras. Y de una manera u otra, las tomaron.<\/p>\n
Atrapados entre esos poderes voraces, hubo poco que los ind\u00edgenas pod\u00edan hacer excepto pelear, pero Europa inund\u00f3 a las Am\u00e9ricas con inmigrantes, resultando en una sarta de desgracias.<\/p>\n
Cuando los europeos llegaron, sus asentamientos eran lugares de enfermedad, hambre y muerte despiadada. La gente de las Primeras Naciones les dieron de comer, les ense\u00f1aron a cultivar la tierra y les curaron con hierbas. Para agradecerles, los colonos les dieron guerra incesante, la viruela (como un arma biol\u00f3gica), el robo de sus tierras y la masacre.<\/p>\n
El D\u00eda de Acci\u00f3n de Gracias puede ser un d\u00eda festivo, pero no es un d\u00eda sagrado.<\/p>\n
Debe ser un d\u00eda para ser recordado en memoria de las Primeras Naciones que poblaron estas tierras durante decenas de miles de a\u00f1os.<\/p>\n
Desde la naci\u00f3n encarcelada soy Mumia Abu-Jamal.[:en][podcast]https:\/\/www.prisonradio.org\/sites\/default\/files\/audio\/uploads\/NoThanksforThanksgiving11-25-2013.mp3[\/podcast]<\/p>\n
Every November, when Thanksgiving is scheduled, I think of the People of the First Nations (so-called Native Americans), and wonder about their mixed feelings for a holiday that celebrates their enormous generosity as well as their near-total destruction.<\/p>\n
What do they have to be thankful of?<\/p>\n
U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the first such holiday in 1863, and American popular culture has tied it to a meal between Aboriginal people and Europeans upon their arrival on this continent.<\/p>\n
In fact, when the Spanish reached South America, and the English reached North America, they soon embarked on dual extermination campaigns, which led to holocausts of Indian nations, both north and south.<\/p>\n
Their arrivals spelled the doom of hundreds of millions of people, hunted, starved, diseased and enslaved.<\/p>\n
To them, hell had a white face.<\/p>\n
They made treaty after treaty with the Indians, but the palefaces broke every one.<\/p>\n
For the Conquistadors, Native peoples served as enslaved workers who worked themselves to death to mine silver and gold. To the Anglos, they were superfluous \u2013 it was Indian land they hungered for \u2013 and they got it \u2013 by hook or crook.<\/p>\n
Caught between these two great, ravenous forces, there was little they could do, but fight, but Europe flooded the Americas with immigrants, and sheer numbers told the tale of woe.<\/p>\n
When first they arrived, European settlements were places of disease, hunger and pitiless death. First Nations folk fed them, taught them planting and healed the, with herbal treatments. The colonists repaid them with unremitting war, smallpox used as biological weapons, land theft and slaughter.<\/p>\n
Thanksgiving may be a holiday, but it ain\u2019t a holy day.<\/p>\n
It should be a day to be remembered, in remembrance of the First Nations that peopled this land, for tens of thousands of years.[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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