The Pentagon oversees more than 150 schools for the children of service members. They educate some 64,000 students in grades K-12.
And this year military kids are going to learn that Thanksgiving Day is based on a falsehood and that the United States is “stolen land.”
OpenTheBooks.com is a conservative watchdog group and they’ve uncovered a nefarious plan to undermine one of our greatest national holidays. The anti-Thanksgiving lessons are part of the Pentagon’s diversity, equity and inclusion program.
“DoDEA staffers were presented with a book called Coaching for Equity, which rebukes capitalism, ‘patriarchy,’ traditions like Thanksgiving, and America’s existence as a country,” OpenTheBooks said in its report.
The military schools are using a textbook that instructs teachers to describe Thanksgiving as a holiday that celebrates a nation founded on stolen lands through the genocide of native people.
“These books are blatantly racist towards hundreds of millions of Americans and delegitimize the founding of America itself,” Reps. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Jim Banks, R-Ind., said in a letter to the Defense Secretary. “Radical woke ideology is rotting out the schools of our service members’ children and instead of addressing this, you have only exacerbated it. Our service members should not have to choose between serving their country or saving their children.”
One textbook actually dismisses the story of the Pilgrims and Indians sharing a meal – suggesting instead that the Pilgrims actually massacred the Indians.
What in the name of the Wampanoags is the Pentagon doing, folks?
“In the United States, we rarely remember that we are on stolen lands, lands that were taken through blankets intentionally infected with smallpox, through broken treaties, and through outright genocide,” the book said. “Our lack of memory, and the intentional distortion of truth, has led to the macabre. Take Thanksgiving, for example… typically celebrated with a big meal and family gathering… History has been sanitized, and the brutality of colonialism has been erased. This perpetuates the power of White supremacy.”
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