Today is Thanksgiving Day, and it is also the National Day of Mourning, which remembers the genocide of millions of Native Americans and their ongoing erasure today.
In giving thanks today, let us also reflect and act to stop the ongoing genocide of America's Indigenous Peoples.
@QasimRashid I learned that this was called the National Day of Mourning when a sociology teacher wrote that in the syllabus instead of “Thanksgiving.”
She assigned a thick book on genocide for us to read over break.
@QasimRashid oh she was. She changed my perspective on so much; taught me such essential things about our history and society that have been right beneath our noses this whole time. I realized so many of us, especially in the US, don’t half understand the makeup and logic of the very society we are living in.
Her name is Professor Kim DaCosta, my academic rockstar. https://gallatin.nyu.edu/people/faculty/kad9.html
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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