11/25/2025
Gratitude doesn’t need a holiday — it needs a heartbeat. Every day should be a day of thanks, a day of family, a day of reflection. I don’t need a calendar to tell me when to appreciate life.
But let’s be honest: tying a celebration to a moment in history that marks the beginning of suffering for Indigenous peoples makes no sense. What exactly are we celebrating?
We don’t celebrate the day the first enslaved Africans were forced onto American soil.
We don’t celebrate the day the British colonized Kenya.
We don’t celebrate the start of oppression.
We celebrate freedom, liberation, independence — the end of injustice, not the beginning of it.
So for me, Thanksgiving isn’t a party. It’s a sad reminder of a wound that still hasn’t healed. That’s the truth.