You don't need a special day to be Thankful

"Thanksgiving: As a special day of prayers and thanksgiving, it was first initiated by Governor Bradford of the Plymouth colony in 1621 after the first successful harvest." Encyclopedia of Religion page 608

- Junious Ricardo Stanton

The story has it that in July of 1621, the European settlers of the Plymouth Bay Colony, under the leadership of Governor Bradford, set aside a special day to celebrate their first successful harvest. There is more to the story, and I urge you to read the late great ancestor Rev. Ishakamusa Barashango's enlightening books Afrikan People and European Holidays: A Mental Genocide. The Europeans had it hard; they barely survived. According to Rev. Barashango, the indigenous people regarded the settlers as helpless children, so three members of the Wampanoag tribe took it upon themselves to be "missionaries" and befriend the whites. A Native man named Squanto, who had been captured, enslaved, and taken to Spain, miraculously escaped and made his way back to America. He served as the interpreter between the indigenous people and the settlers.