Archive for November, 2011
Kiddo’s bday!
photo credit: anita.marie This day each year is a day which I celebrate twice! Â Why? Â Well first and foremost it is my kiddo’s bday and she is more than happy to let all people around her know this. Â If she could she would probably run up and down the street knocking on doors and letting all our neighbors know that it is her birthday. Â Second, well, that would be me celebrating the fact that I have been able to keep a human being alive for another year! Â I know what you’re all thinking, I rarely pat myself on the back or declare my superiority, but on this day I think I’ve done a really good job with kiddo.
Thankful
photo credit: honor the giftSo it is that time of year again, where we dress up the colonization of the US and the removal of the indigenous people as awesome.  Now I have no beef with the holiday itself, just more of it’s portrayal.  I can agree and ascribe that the Native Americans had pity on the pilgrims and helped em out with a solid, but it didn’t stop there.  You know being a people of reciprocation they gave back with small pox and other diseases.  Some solid stealing of land and last of all the slaughter of Native Americans throughout the whole westward progression. Sounds like a good trade if you ask me.  Now before everybody goes all, but your parents wouldn’t have met without this progress,  or look at the luxury you live in!  I will admit that for me, the events turned out pretty good.  Im part of a loving biracial family that has some pretty good looking specimens in it, I have a solid Native American family that helps me remember that big families equal more love, and I know how to make other people uncomfortable while making jokes about my racial background. Regardless of my feelings on it’s portrayal, Thanksgiving has always been a good holiday for me.