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Transcription Nov 26, 2015

Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is a myth that men agree to believe.” So, is history just a bunch of lies we all agree upon, or, is there an objective reality? I think there's an objective reality. Something either did, or did not, happen. http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/issues/lincoln.html https://vimeo.com/112514732

“This is what the Lord Almighty says... ‘Now go and strike Amalek and devote to destruction all that they have. Do not spare them, but kill both man and woman, child and infant, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’” ~1 Samuel 15:3

William Bradford, the Governor of the Plimouth Colony, which after 30 years, eventually failed, started out as an orphan boy from Yorkshire.

Bradford was a Brownist separatist, not a Puritan. Bradford and company suffered religious persecution in England because their church taught that they should annoy the hell out of their neighbors. William Bradford was a over religious zealot who thought that only his interpretation of the Bible was right, and fuck everybody else. The non-Puritan Bradford was anti-Catholic; he hated the Pope, and Bishops, and Priests, and even churches themselves. For Bradford, all one needed to be a good Christian, was a group of people who worshiped together, in the name of Jesus, and that was it. For William Bradford, wherever folks met in the name of God and Jesus Christ, that's all that mattered.

William Bradford and Company then sneaked away to Amsterdam, where they were able to freely practice their religion as they so chose, but while in the Netherlands, Bradford and company discovered that the Netherlands contained Dutch people, and then they set sail for Massachusetts. While Bradford moved away from England and could freely worship as he chose, he didn't like the liberal Dutch culture, he was losing control over his children, so he had to figure out a way to get to America. Bradford were very proud of their English heritage, even though England at the time was being run by a bunch of corrupt fornicators and merrimakers. They came to America because they wanted a more conservative English culture.

The Pilgrims did not want religious freedom. They just didn't like how liberal the Netherlands were, and they wanted to control their children's lives as helicopter parents.

Of the 102 original Pilgrims on board the Mayflower, 40 of them called themselves “Saints”, religious zealots, while the other 60 or so, the majority, were adventurers or speculators or servants, which the “Saints” called “Strangers”. There were a total of 70 women and men, 30 children, a bunch of chickens, and a dog. It took them 65 days to cross the stormy Atlantic in a space the size of a city bus.

William Bradford and the Mayflower landed at what is now Provincetown harbor, Mass., in November 1620. 2 of the Pilgrims died in the boat ride over, and 1 baby was born. Also, Bradford and all of the pilgrims were illegal aliens. They didn't have a VISA to get into this country. They didn't go through Customs. They weren't vetted like the Syrian Refugees are going to be vetted. The Pilgrims didn't assimilate into the New World culture. They didn't learn to speak Algonquin, or Iroquois, or Yuchi. They didn't learn the natives' language, culture, and ways, nor did they adapt and assimilate into the native American culture, like the lost colony of Roanoke did.

The Mayflower didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the Plymouth Rock myth landed on us, as kids, when our public school teachers fed us that bullshit. The Plymouth Rock myth was just a public relations stunt created by locals to increase tourism. So the Mayflower didn't land on Plymouth Rock. Like what Mark Twain said, a lie, especially a really good lie, can encircle the globe before the truth even has a chance to put its pants on.

More myths about the Pilgrims: they all didn't just wear all black, nor did they wear those goofy look'n buckles, the weird shoes, or black steeple hats.

In 1605 a British expedition led by Captain George Weymouth had landed on this particular coastline. When they left in 1614 they took 24 Natives as slaves and left smallpox, syphilis, and gonorrhea in their wake. One of the Natives taken back to Europe was named Tisquantum, which means “Divine Rage”, but was called Squanto by the white man. Pocahontas saved John Smith in order to free John Smith up to enslave all the Patuxet and the Nausett natives he could capture. Some say John Smith is the one who kidnapped Squanto. Maybe Squanto was captured and enslaved twice. Nobody really knows.

The Pilgrims settled in an area that was once Patuxet, a Wampanoag village, nad the Pawtuxet had been destroyed by the Weymouth expedition. The Patuxets were Wampanoags, and the Wampanoags were also called the Pokanoket.

Before 1616, the Wampanoag numbered 50,000 to 100,000, occupying 69 villages scattered throughout southeastern Massachusetts and eastern Rhode Island. Disease, murder, slavery wiped out nearly 2/3 of the Pokanoket/Wampanoag.

When John Carver, William Bradford, and the rest of the Pilgrims landed on Squanto's family's ancestral homeland, Patuxet, and what John Smith called New Plymouth. They didn't see anybody, which they took as God's message to them to settle this land. While they didn't see any natives on Squanto's family's ancestral homeland of Patuxet, they did find a bunch of graves.

So, naturally, they robbed the graves they found.

A colonists said: “The next morning we found a place like a grave. We decided to dig it up. We found first a mat, and under that a fine bow… We also found bowls, trays, dishes, and things like that. We took several of the prettiest things to carry away with us, and covered the body up again.”

The Puritans survived by stealing the food stores of neighboring Native Summer Villages as well as eating corn that was still growing wild from abandoned cornfields near the ruined village.

Following that came a cruel New England winter for which they were ill prepared. The Pilgrims faced rampant disease, starvation and death at the Plymouth colony, and to ward off attacks by the natives they would drag the dead and prop them up with their muskets so they would appear to be sentries.

More than half of the 102 passengers of the Mayflower died in the first three months, wiping out five whole families, and leaving no family intact and not grieving.

William Bradford’s first wife was said to have either fallen overboard and drowned, or she may have committed suicide out of despair.

The Plimouth Plantation were a London based corporation; a company set up to make some rich paymasters some money, none of which risked the journey to America. Since many of the Pilgrims came to find riches, they weren't suitable to survive in the winter months. They came looking for gold. They were incompetent. They didn't know how to raise crops, how to hunt, or how to survive.

Over half of the first 100 Pilgrims died the first year in America. Wait... not the first year, but in the first three months! William Bradford, being a strict Protestant, didn't celebrate Xmas the first or second year.

On December 25, 1621, Governor William Bradford led a work detail into the forest and discovered some recent arrivals among the crew had scruples about working on the day. Bradford noted in his history of the colony, Of Plymouth Plantation:

"On the day called Christmas Day, the Governor called [the settlers] out to work as was usual. However, the most of this new company excused themselves and said it went against their consciences to work on that day. So the Governor told them that if they made it [a] matter of conscience, he would spare them till they were better informed; so he led away the rest and left them."

When the Governor and his crew returned home at noon they discovered those left behind playing stool-ball, pitching the bar, and pursuing other sports.[4] Bradford confiscated their implements, reprimanded them, forbade any further reveling in the streets, and told them their devotion for the day should be confined to their homes.

Massachusetts and Connecticut followed the Plymouth colony in refusing to condone any observance of the day.[1] When the Puritans came to power in England following the execution of King Charles I, Parliament enacted a law in 1647 abolishing the observance of Christmas, Easter, and Whitsuntide.[1][4] The Puritans of New England then passed a series of laws making any observance of Christmas illegal,[6] thus banning Christmas celebrations for part of the 17th century. A Massachusetts law of 1659 punished offenders with a hefty five shilling fine.

Hell, … it may have been Christmas that actually pushed Bradford and the Pilgrims to leave the Netherlands.

If I had been living in Plimouth in the 1620s, and William Bradford, who just watched over half of his people die the very first year, I'm pretty sure I'd tell Bradford to go fuck himself about celebrating anything. In fact, when half the people die, that's a failure of a colony. And Plymouth Colony, overall, was a total and complete failure, because after 30 years, they abandoned it, and joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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There's been only two sources that the story of Thanksgiving even comes from.
William Bradford’s journal titled “Of Plymouth Plantation” and
Edward Winslow's “Mourt’s Relations”

Here's William Bradford's 115 words in five sentences about the occasion.

“They began now to gather in the small harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides, they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were not feigned but true reports.”

The food items William Bradford mentioned are:

Cod
Bass
wild turkies
foul (birds, cardinals, owls, eagles)
and water foul (such as ducks, geese)
Venison (deer meat)
Indian corn

In Bradford's narrative, he doesn't even mention of a huge feast with native Americans. He just said that 1621 was a better year than 1620, and that during the Summer, there was no want of food, so he was improving and getting better. He mentioned the “fall harvest”, but nothing about Chief Massasoit, or 90 native Americans, or a huge feast, or a day of Thanksgiving, or an announcement of a public holiday, or anything. William Bradford only mentioned the general lavish hunting and gathering season of 1621, and that's it. So really, we only have one account of the first supposed Thanksgiving, just Edward Winslow's account.

Here's Edward Winslow's narrative of Thanksgiving:

“Our corn did prove well, and God be praised, we had a good increase of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent good, but our peas not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sown, they came up very well, and blossomed, but the sun parched them in the blossom; Our harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruits of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl, as with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governor, and upon the Captain and others. And although it be not always so plentiful, as it was at this time with us, yet by the goodness of God, we are so far from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty.”

Edward Winslow only mentions Indian corn, and barley, “foul” and “deer”, and peas that weren't even harvested, and that's it.

Foul could be any bird. When Bradford mentions foul, he also mentions wild turkies, which means that he meant some other bird, not wild turkies.

So we can only be sure that 1 item was served at that so-called first thanksgiving. White tailed deer, because it's the only food item Edward Winslow mentions for the 3 day harvest/day of peace celebration.

Edward Winslow actually mentions the 3 day event specifically. Edward Winslow also mentions the Wampanoag/Pokanoket King Massasoit, whereas Bradford did not.

Without Massasoit, there is no unity dinner.

Side note: the name “Massasoit” is actually the title of Great King; Massasoit's actual name was:
Ou-sa-me-quin
Ousamequin X4... like Beetlejuice, if you say Ousamequin 3 times, he appears, which is why I said it 4 times. 4 times cancels it.

The Pokanoket/Wampanoag outright refused to convert and become Christians.

Edward Winslow also doesn't mention why Massasoit came, what his purpose was, or if he was even invited. I've read a ton about this, and I know that Massasoit agreed to be political and military allies with William Bradford and the pilgrims, against other native American tribes. Also, Massasoit gave Myles Standish permission to live on the Patuxet lands, where they were living at the time, but was under the domain of the Wampanoag/Pokanoket natives. (Patuxet were also Wampanoag/Pokanoket... the last of the Patuxet? Squanto.) So the point of the meeting could be to solidify their friendship, their political and military alliance, and the land deal.

Also, I noticed that Edward Winslow talked about “recreations”, and shooting off guns, and maybe even cannons, before he mentioned that the native Americans came. Here it is again:

“at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and amongst the rest their greatest king Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation...”

My take, is that the Pilgrims were having a fall harvest celebration, and they started to shoot their guns and cannons, and the Wampanoag think'n some shenanigans were afoot, came to see what's up, to see what's good, and to check out the situation. The Wampanoag/Pokanoket came, with their entire tribe, all 90 of them, locked and loaded, ready to fight. That's how Massasoit Ou-sa-me-quin rolls. The Pilgrims, numbering 52 at the time, seeing a superior military force twice their size, acted real nice, and invited the possible invaders in for dinner...

But that's speculation. It's all speculation. There's no specific mention of any purpose for the visit. He wasn't invited. And when Massasoit came, the Wampanoag/Pokanoket then had to go and get more food, the 5 white tailed deer, so clearly the Pilgrims didn't have enough food, and therefore, they weren't ready for them.

At this celebration, a peace and friendship agreement was made between the Wampanoag/Pokanoket sachem Massasoit and Miles Standish giving the Pilgrims the clearing in the forest where the old Patuxet village had been to build their new town of Plymouth, that being the main, and only, purpose for the 3 day event of entertaining and feasting.

And an encounter of this sort never happened again, history says. There were no prayers and there was no “giving thanks” at this time of supposed happy harvest.

The only food item we know for certain that was served were the 5 white tailed deer. We also know that Edward Winslow doesn't mention a prayer, or a day of thanksgiving, or a declaration of thanksgiving, or anything like that. Really, it couldn't have been a Thanksgiving, a Christian holiday of fasting and prayer, since there was dancing, singing, pagan heathen non-christians, and merrimaking, all frowned upon by prudish fundamentalist zealots. Also, being Christians, why not mention that it was a day of Thanksgiving, of fasting and prayer? That's because it wasn't a day of Thanksgiving, at all.
AT the very least, it was just a fall festival, of Pilgrims celebrating their cornucopia of food, when the Pokanoket/Wampanoag came and crashed their little party. At the most, it could have been a possible military battle that the Pilgrims eventually smoothed over, but most likely, this 3 day festival of entertainment and feasting was the very meeting that united the Pokanoket/Wampanoag and the Pilgrims in a political and military alliance against the other native Americans around Squanto's Patuxet lands.

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So, all the extra fluff surrounding Thanksgiving was just made up in later years, most likely by Sarah Josepha Hale, who lobbied President Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a holiday in 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, in order to get the North and South feeling a common sense of American unity.

Bradford mentioned the different food items they had collected throughout the year, such as:

Cod
Bass
wild turkies
foul (bluebirds, cardinals, owls, bald eagles)
and water foul (such as ducks, geese)
Venison (deer meat)
Indian corn

waterfoul is most like geese or duck.
Foul could be any birds, cardinal owls eagles, and maybe even the now-extinct passenger pigeon.

The pilgrims didn't have any ovens, nor did they have any forks or table knives.

There wasn't any sweet potatoes, or regular potatoes, or HoneyBaked hams. And since there was no flour or butter for pies, that means there was no pumpkin pies, nor was there any cranberry sauce, nor corn on the cob, since Indian corn was used to make hominy. There wasn't any apples, or pears.

They may have had native pumpkins, not a pie, but just pumpkins, and they may also have eaten eels and shellfish, such as lobster, clams and mussels. They could also have had succotash, Indian corn, eel, Cod, bass...

The mythical so-called “first Thanksgiving dinner” wasn't ever repeated, so it wasn't a tradition, nor was it intended to be.

How Massasoit saved William Bradford's ass, William Bradlford should have sucked Massasoit's dick, and been his cabana buttboy for years, just for helping him survive after that first horrid year. But really, Massasoit shouldn't have had any pity for Bradford, just like these goddamned Republicans don't have any empathy for the Syrian refugees, just like they didn't a shit about the Guatamalan kids who needed refuge ... did yall see that Greece Coast Guard trying to puncture a hole in that Syrian floating device with that large sharp pole?

Then the Turkish coast guard saved them.

After the rigorous screening process that the Syrians would have to go through in order to get into this country, it's virtually impossible for any of the terrorists to get here. But perhaps, the reason why these racist Republican teabaggers are skeptical of the Syrian refugees, is because they know, deep down inside, that's how they are, that's who they are, secret Trojan horse terrorists, who came to a land that wasn't theirs, with the intention of taking it all over away from the natives.

In 1623 a day of fasting and prayer during a period of drought was changed to one of thanksgiving because the rain came during the prayers.
Wessagussett Indians; horrific spasm of bloodshed in March 1623 in the killing by Miles Standish and seven other colonists of seven Massachusetts Sachems and the decapitation of the leader, Wittawamut.
We dwell on Thanksgiving, which didn't really happen the way we think it did, but fail to register the decapitated head of the Massachusetts leader, Wituwamut, that was placed over the meeting house at Plymouth Plantation in 1623, to be a "Terror unto the countryside," as William Bradford reported.

The English... Mystic Massacre during the Pequot War.
tormenting surrounding tribes, burning entire villages to the ground, while I indigenous men, women, and children lie sleeping.

By 1676...
As more and more English settlers arrived in the following years, this peace gradually deteriorated and 54 years later, in 1675, the English and Wampanoag were fighting each other in King Philip's War.
Massasoit's people, the Wampanoag/Pokanoket were all wiped out.
Metacomet's head was put on a pike just like Wituwamat's head was.

[Happy Gangsthieving Day everybody!]


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