Washington State’s largest school district sent letters to teachers and other employees suggesting Thanksgiving should be “a time of mourning” for its Native American students.The memo, from Caprice Hollins, the district’s director of Equity, Race & Learning Support, included an attachment to a paper titled “Deconstructing the Myths of ‘The First Thanksgiving.’”

It includes 11 “myths” disputing everything from what was served at the first Thanksgiving (no mashed potatoes or cranberries) and who provided the food to the nature of the Pilgrims themselves: Myth No. 3 calls the colonists “rigid fundamentalists” who came to the New World “fully intending to take the land away from its native inhabitants.”

But what got the Internet abuzz was Myth No. 11: “Thanksgiving is a happy time.” It was followed by “Fact: For many Indian people, ‘Thanksgiving’ is a time of mourning … a bitter reminder of 500 years of betrayal returned for friendship.”

Hollins would not defend her letter, but David Tucker, a spokesman for the district, said it was an effort to be sensitive to minorities in Seattle schools.

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First of all, what kind of joke of a position is District Director of Equity, Race & Learning Support? I’ll bet that woman makes a six figure salary. Get a real job, Ms Hollins. How many tax dollars are being wasted on you to tell kids that they shouldn’t dare be thankful for what they have on Thanksgiving Day, that instead they should feel horrible and guilty for being white? Sensitive to minorities? Do not black Americans celebrate Thanksgiving? What about other ethnic Americans like Hispanics and Asians? Hell, even the Indians celebrate it, according to the according to members of the Tulalip Tribes.

Native Americans in the Northwest celebrate the holiday with turkey and salmon, said Daryl Williams of the Tulalip Tribes. Before the period of bitter and violent relationships between natives and their culturally European counterparts, they worked together to survive, he said.

“The spirit of Thanksgiving, of people working together to help each other, is the spirit I think that needs to grow in this country, because this country has gotten very divisive,” he said.

I think Michael Medved put it best:

Nationally syndicated talk show host Michael Medved was more blunt.

“The notion that now you have a major school system sending out a message that, no, rather than expressing thanks we should emphasize guilt on this holiday — that is sick, it is destructive and it is anti-American.”

Caprice Hollins is clearly just another far left crackpot who thinks so lowly of herself that she must spread her misery onto other peoples’ children with her anti-American Marxist brainwashing. This is not the first time the Seattle school district has engaged in such behavior. The woman needs to be fired from her job immediately.

The U.S. Department of Education investigated in April after the district spent part of a federal Smaller Learning Communities grant to send 20 students to the “Eighth Annual White Privilege Conference.”

After complaints last year, the district removed from its Web site a definition of racism that claimed planning ahead and individualism were examples of cultural racism.