While others gush on social media or interviews over how they celebrate the holiday with their families and friends, these celebrities publicly denounce Thanksgiving for multiple reasons.
- November 24, 2019
AceShowbiz - Author, activist and former Disney star Rowan Blanchard has long been proven wise beyond her years. However, she apparently doesn't have nice words for Thanksgiving which she previously referred to as "strange, state sanctioned annual celebration of colonial genocide" in one of her Instagram posts. In 2017, the star took to her account to encourage "white people" to donate to The Navajo Water Project instead of celebrating the holiday in the usual way.
She explained in the post that giving back to people "who this 'holiday' implicates and triggers institutionalized violence for" was "one way of us to start paying very basic, owed reparations for the millions of ways we implicate systematic violence against PoC everyday, with or without knowledge of doing so." She went on saying, "reminder that America as we know it is stolen land, 'founded' by white settlers who stole from, killed, and raped Native Americans."
