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oyinbo teef indigenous peeps land ann celebratte itt as tankgivinn. celebrate gluttony ann overconsumpshan over familee gatherinn. profitt mekinn ting at de xxxpense aff familee. woo iss de real turkey. fiyah ann more fiyah pon misgivinn day
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-...r=Weird%20News A Forgotten Thanksgiving Custom: Masks, Mischief and Cross-dressing ... The scariest thing about the modern American Thanksgiving is the bounty of leftovers that will haunt the nation's refrigerators for days to come -- the lingering decay of gravy, the ghosts of turkeys past. But an old custom from over a hundred years ago, especially popular among poor New York City children, might scare the stuffing out of a Thanksgiving dinner party today. Imagine opening your home to invited guests, only to find a group of children in wretched and unsettling disguises, disfigured masks and poverty-inspired costumes, knocking at your door and begging for sweets. If that weren't enough, the boys might be wearing their sister's dresses in an act of zany cross-dressing. Thanksgiving 'masking', as it was often called, stemmed from a satirical perversion of destitution and the ancient tradition of mumming, where men in costumes floated from door to door, asking for food and money, often in exchange for music. In the 19th century, makeshift Thanksgiving parades -- fantasticals -- featured New Yorkers marching through the street in garish costume, most likely inspired by Guy Fawkes Day. By the late 19th century, these had morphed into a day for children to take to the street in ragamuffin garb, going from door to door, begging for fruit, candy and even pennies. "Every street had its band of children," proclaimed the New York Tribune in 1901, "dressed as ragamuffins, who kept in the open air for hours." Proper families were certainly scandalized, even as their own children snuck out the back door to join in the fun. In 1899, delightfully warm weather had the New York Times proclaiming, "Thanksgiving masquerading has never been more universal," the streets filled with "Fausts, Filipinos, Mephistos, Boers, Uncle Sams, John Bulls, Harlequins, bandits, sailors." While in the poorer neighborhoods of New York, "a smear of burned cork and a dab of vermilion sufficed for babbling celebrants." "This play of masking is deeply rooted in the New York child," said Appleton's magazine a few years later, in 1909. "All toy shops carry a line of hideous and terrifying false faces or 'dough faces' as they are termed on the East Side." Candy stores offered playful "lithographed character masks" alongside such holiday related treats as spiced jelly gums, opera drops, crystallized ginger and tinted hard candies. Masking would have had obvious appeal to young boys and teenagers, an excuse for a bit of mischief on such an austere holiday. Dressing in girl's clothing -- perhaps the most accessible 'costume' for many boys -- was among the most popular options. According to Appleton's, boys "tog themselves out in worn-out finery of their sisters" and spent their afternoon "gamboling in awkward mimicry of their sisters to the casual street piano." The key was to look as disheveled and homely as possible, an almost perverse custom given the poverty in many sectors of New York at this time. A 1910 book called Little Talks For Little People spelled out the dress code: "Old shoes and clouted upon your feet, and old garments upon you. Clouted means patched." While the chaotic tradition was associated with juvenile shenanigans, some educators saw a bright side to the tradition, especially in the waning years of World War I. A writer on early Kindergarten practices suggested that "the masking on the streets of Thanksgiving Day ... has its redeeming quality, in reminding the children of our dear soldiers' need for real masks." They would, of course, be referring to gas masks. A disturbing classified ad from 1919 even offered a World War I gas mask as an 'ideal Thanksgiving mask.' This custom was mostly frowned upon by polite society as a distraction from the historic and somber traditions of Thanksgiving. Sidling up to a dinner table wearing costume makeup or an oversized gown was certainly no way to pay tribute to American providence. By 1924, New York could focus its holiday cheer onto more controllable pursuits with the debut of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Within a couple decades, it appears that the merry tradition of Thanksgiving masking slowly relocated over to the less dignified Halloween, becoming codified into the ritual of trick-or-treating by the mid 20th century. -
mixxed race man aggo pardon two turkey even dough imm neva do enuff fe fixxed blakk foreclosure ann blakk poverteeLast edited by blugiant; 11-22-2012, 08:16 AM.Comment
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President Obama will do the annual pardon-the-turkey thing today, and one group you might not expect is raising objections: PETA. The animal-rights group sent a letter to Obama complaining that the ceremony "makes light of the mass slaughter of some 46 million gentle, intelligent birds," reports the Hill. Assuming the president is unpersuaded, either Cobbler or Gobbler will get the pardon, and for the first time, the White House is asking the public to decide which one is worthy. (Daily Intel finds that a little creepy.) Obama will pardon the lucky fowl this afternoon in a Rose Garden ceremony, the AP reports. For now, the 19-week-old turkeys are living large at Washington's fancy W Hotel about a block from the White House. Seriously. "They've been good guests," the general manager tells Fox News. "We haven't had any noise complaints from their neighbors." The hotel chef has been fixing them an organic snack mix of grains and cranberries and they're "gobbling it up," the manager adds.Comment
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Mek sure you wash up de plate and clean di kitchen after you eat yuh belly full, blu!Comment
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@ Blackstar:
pan misgivin day yes 
but mi no fiyah pan Barack
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Right there with you on both points, Miss Peasie.Originally posted by Peasie View Post pan misgivin day yes
but mi no fiyah pan Barack
Misgiving Day should be a day of remembrance for all the land that's been stolen and Americans displaced from their homes (and I don't mean the European-Americans).Comment
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Yeah, anything that is of white or/and American historical value really makes you miserable, that's good...I hope you have a miserable Thanksgiving. It will make my Thanksgiving that much more enjoyable...Happy Thanksgiving, Bluturkey....BURP!Originally posted by blugiant View PostComment
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historical VALUE, to who???
What do the Aboriginals have to say bout this day?
Mi gree wid blu fiyah pan missgiving day, fiyah pan blk frideh, an fiyah pan unno war president.Comment
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Originally posted by blugiant View Post
If you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
We are > Fossil Fuels --- Bill McKibben 350.orgComment
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If you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
We are > Fossil Fuels --- Bill McKibben 350.orgComment
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For LonrwolfIf you don't fight for what you deserve, you deserve what you get.
We are > Fossil Fuels --- Bill McKibben 350.orgComment
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