Gratitude becomes Glorification when you selectively remember the past.

This is the nature of Thanksgiving.

A glorification of colonization, ethnic cleansing, and genocide of the Native peoples.

A whitewashed myth that pretends history on this land began when the colonizer arrived.

Gratitude becomes Genuine when it acknowledges and honors the past in full.

Genuine Gratitude listens to the pain of the past, centers the harmed, and seeks to repair.

May we practice Genuine Gratitude.