thanksgiving
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Top 10 Thanksgiving Leftovers
Editor’s note: All of this food tastes better at my house than at your house, but ya know, rock rock on. This list was made in conjunction with my family. Several items were hotly contested and debated. This ain’t nothing but love in a pan. Everybody ain’t able on the day-after turkey, though; it’s important…
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A 15-Step Guide on How to Talk to and Deal With the Trump Supporters in Your Family This Thanksgiving
1. [Find] 2 tablespoons olive oil, one 1.5- to 2-pound lobster, 1 pound of shrimp, 2 pounds small elbow macaroni, one stick of butter (two sticks optional), half cup (2 ounces) shredded Muenster cheese, half cup shredded mild cheddar cheese, half cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese, half cup shredded Monterey Jack, half cup shredded provolone…
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The Caucasian’s Guide to Black Thanksgiving, Part 3: Giving Thanks
Dearly beloved white people, Today we are gathered here among our cousins, aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews to celebrate the tradition called Black Thanksgiving. We have already informed you about the invited guests, so you should be familiar with all of the people in attendance. Black Thanksgiving is a holiday based on family and love,…
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Watch: What Are People Thankful for in 2017?
Whether it’s food, family or (the avoidance of?) football, Thanksgiving is a special time of year for many American families. But what are people most thankful for in our first year with Donald Trump in the Oval Office? We hit the streets to find out. Watch the video above.
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Thanksgiving Text Hotline Helps White Folks Talk to Their Racist Relatives About Trump and Racism
Ah, Thanksgiving. That yearly fall holiday where we gather around a table full of food and feel thankful that we only have to see or interact with most of the people sitting around us for one holiday a year. Luckily, it’s one involving food, so for the most part, their mouths should be too full…
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Judge of Characters: Thanksgiving While Black
While we are all fully aware of the foundation of lies that Thanksgiving was built on, we’ve managed to turn the holiday into a celebrated time with food and family. [Whispers.] But we’ll never forget. First of all, there are generations of beautiful blackness all in one house, whether it’s Grandma’s house or, in my…
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Watch: The Truth About Thanksgiving
So the story is told, the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims and Native Americans gathered for a communal meal after a successful fall harvest. But we know the story didn’t go down quite like that. After the first Thanksgiving in 1621, Europeans proceeded to push Native Americans out of their own territories, slaughtered them en masse and…
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The Caucasian’s Guide to Thanksgiving, Part 2: The Menu
Welcome back, white people! (I bet you’ve never heard anyone say that before.) After learning about the guest list for Black Thanksgiving, you might be wondering why Black Thanksgiving is so different from wypipo Thanksgiving. As you learn more about Thanksgiving, many of you will say: “This is almost exactly like white Thanksgiving, but not…
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6 Ways to Make Your Thanksgiving as Unproblematic as Possible
Ah, Thanksgiving. Everyone’s favorite official-yet-unofficial holiday. Retailers don’t really know what to do with it, since they tend to jump from a Halloween marketing blitzkrieg straight into Christmas marketing overexposure, but that doesn’t matter right now. All that matters is that Thanksgiving is that in-between holiday that chiefly exists for us to nearly and unabashedly…