FREE COMPANY THANKSGIVING TACOs - AN INSULT TO INDIANS

From December 01, 2007 ON AIR JUDGE WYLD SHOW - Radio Talk

Excerpt from show prep notes. On air content may have been more or less. Not journalistic or debate notes.

Thanksgiving Dinner

Turkey, cranberries, stuffing, mashed potatoes, brown gravy. Pies…pumpkin, apple. These may or may not have been part of the original Thanksgiving which is what we celebrate… Pilgrims and the Indians…. Harsh winter. There was a bountiful crop. There was celebration. It was an important part of founding this country.

History. Some of you know History very well. I don’t. I don’t even care. At least not for this radio show today. I want to talk about tradition. When it comes to the meal, we think of what I said… turkey… it is tradition that we think of turkey being eaten at the first thanksgivings a few centuries ago…We think of pies. We think of sweet potatoes and squash. Of string beans and corn…maize… We think of berries… It’s AMERICAN… it’s the United States of America from the east coast that swept west…. From sea to shining sea. It’s AMERICA…and what is more patriotic and more fitting to represent being a true American than the true American traditions.

Maybe even it wasn’t turkey… maybe it was duck… did the pilgrims shoot duck? Did the pilgrims have big ole honk’n turkey guns? If so, could those turkey guns shoot DUCK? …maybe not…. But some people eat duck for Thanksgiving… I suppose that is ok…but how did the pilgrims shoot duck with those turkey guns…

maybe the pilgrims brought house cats… bird activists hate cats because they kill birds in your back yard… maybe the pilgrims had cats who killed ducks… the cats would go out and kill ducks and bring them back to the log cabin steps and set the dead ducks on the logcabin porch… anyway… somehow duck seems ok as well…

But now here is a dilemma that a big company gave it’s employees this Thanksgiving year. You know that traditional ALL AMERICAN dinner? Turkey, duck, potatoes, corn, bread, etc…???

The managers decided to buy the meat for a workplace Thanksgiving meal. Very generous right? Employees could bring all the fix’ns and side dishes and all could join in an ALL AMERICAN dinner with the meat provided by management, executives, leaders in this heartland of America company.

Guess what… the meat was TACO MEAT… that’s right… TACO MEAT… ground beef with spices…and the fix’ns that the employees were to bring would be tortilla chips, salsa, and flour tortillas to make tacos. How often do the thanksgiving grocery store ads have guacamole???? Instead of cans of cranberry sauce….

Right on the company Thanksgiving announcement flyer was in the middle… MEXICAN THEME…. WHEN? WHEN? What date of the year did the pilgrims sit down with the Mexicans and celebrate this great land together??? What’s the anniversary… is it in March?? April??? Cinco De Mayo….. oh.. ok.. Cinco De Mayo , that’s 5^th of May… is that when the Mexicans sat with the Pilgrims and celebrated?

Just what kind of patriotism was the management of this company showing by buying TACO meat for thanksgiving? How out of touch can they be? How twisted must they be to twist an ALL AMERICAN including American Indian holiday into a Mexican invasion celebration?

Sure it was a White Caucasian invasion of land the Indians were roaming around in first. Sure. But being here and now…where we are at, we should honor the Indians each year. The big companies who want to do something different, do something unique, offer a dinner that isn’t the same dinner that the employees will be eating at home the next day… buffalo meat, fish… something different.

Was it a matter of cost? Did they sell out an all American including American Indian celebration to TACO meat because it was cheaper??? Sometimes quietness is better than an insult.

Most employees that had to travel to part of the company where the thanksgiving taco feast was occurring, DIDN”T. There were three sign in sheets available at one location and only two people signed up to participate. Bring the fix’ns.

What do you think? Is this sad? Is this unpatriotic? Is this an insult to the Indians? Why bypass the Indians to offer a Mexican meal on thanksgiving. Who in the company had an axe to grind about American’s oppression on Mexicans? Why make that statement and abuse your position in an American founded company?

You KNOW a lot of the management were just as ticked. But they couldn’t say anything about it. What odd behavior has your company been engaged in during American holidays? What anti-American agendas have they been pushing on to the employees in your company.