The article “A Tofurkey Thanksgiving” that appeared in your November issue is an abomination to the award-winning North Star Newspaper. Thanksgiving is a time-honored tradition, and no one reserves the right to call anyone’s tradition “nonsensical” regardless of what it may be. The article had numerous flaws and historical misinformation to progress the writer’s agenda, of which we are still uncertain.


Are we supposed to stop eating meat? Celebrating with our families? Are we supposed to stop being thankful? Or do you want us all to stop and observe how nonconforming you are, like everyone else? The answer is to ignore this extremist vegetarian viewpoint, and celebrate this Thanksgiving with your family and friends while reflecting on the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Can anything that brings people closer together be bad? As for the misconstrued idea about Thanksgiving that the writer holds, perhaps she will do her research next time. The pilgrims were of Angelo descent, not Aryan in the connotation the writer implied, and if anyone fed anyone, it was the natives feeding the pilgrims in order to help them survive the new harsh climate. Ask any fifth grader and they will tell you about the helpful Native Squanto, who bridged the gap between the pilgrims and natives and taught them valuable farming and hunting techniques which helped ensure their survival. In fact, no natives were enslaved and no “hams” were “killed” as the writer would have everyone believe.

Sincerely,
Josiah Carney, senior