Happy Thanksgiving?

Twitter was ablaze yesterday w/people commenting on the truth surrounding the mass genocide of Native Americans that the holiday Thanksgiving was meant to celebrate and make appear harmless. It renewed my faith in humanity that so many in the US and worldwide were willing to admit to and denounce the origins of and the subsequent annual holiday that resulted from this evil event in our country's history.  http://www.manataka.org/page269.html We owe it to our fellow human beings (ie Native Americans) to remember how this all began and distance ourselves from celebrating something so morally gruesome in the name of being "thankful". Aren't we thankful everyday? What makes this day so suddenly special when gratefulness should not have a stop and a start date? If you are holding out for this one particular day to be especially thankful then perhaps you haven't looked hard enough at your blessings. Try starting with the miracle of waking up everyday with a sound heartbeat and lungs that work tirelessly and neither ever gives out. Then, of course, there's our family, friends, children, comforts, the list goes on, All Praise and Thanks be to God Alone.  How would the Jews feel if we declared a day to give thanks and celebrate grandly on the anniversary of the start of the Holocaust or, as African Americans, if the whole country joined in celebration of the start of slavery and its pleasing, undeniably beneficial results to the establishment of our country? Would this day, regardless of what we claimed to be celebrating so many years removed seem so innocuous then? Perhaps it's time to change our traditions and look at them in the light of truth instead of just as a feel-good time for all. Give thanks every day and when you do, let it never be at the expense of our massacred natives, who had families, loved each other, and experienced loss in the very same way that we do.