November 25, 2021 • 16 mins
So the real story of Thanksgiving. It is a tradition on this program. And this is the time of year, to me, the holiday season begins and I think to most people. This time of year I just become overwhelmed with so many emotions, memories. And the way I'm built, most of my memories are positive. I think, in my case, when I think of nostalgia or the past, the things that automatically occur to me are pleasant ones.
It takes me to The True Story of Thanksgiving. It was written about in chapter 6 of See, I Told You So, book two. It's in a chapter titled, Dead White Guys or What the History Books Never Tell You. And this chapter, by the way, served as the foundation for the first book in the Rush Revere series, Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims. Where, in addition to the true story of Thanksgiving, we have the true story of the Pilgrims, who they were, where they came from, why they came, what happened when they got here, what they had to do to fix what went wrong when they got here, and what role the Pilgrims play in the overall founding of America.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So the real story of Thanksgiving. It is a tradition
on this program, and this is the time of year
the to me, the holiday season begins and I think,
I think to most people, and this time of year,
I I just become overwhelmed with some of the emotions, memories,
(00:23):
and the way I'm built. Most of my memories are positive.
I think in my case, when I think of nostalgia
or or the past, the things that automatically occurred to me,
their pleasant ones. It takes me to the true story
of Thanksgiving. It was written about in chapter six of
c I Told You So book Too. It's the chapter
(00:45):
titled Dead White Guys or what the History Books Never
tell You. And this chapter, by the way, served as
the foundation for the first book in the Rush Revere series,
Rush Revere in The Brave Pilgrims, we're in addition to
the true story of Banksgiving, we have the true story
of the Pilgrims, who they were, where they came from,
(01:07):
why they came, what happened when they got here, what
they had to do to fix what went wrong when
they got here, and what role of Pilgrims play in
the overall founding of American Rush Revere and the Brave
Pilgrims as the first book of five in the Rush
Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series, which is
(01:27):
written for young people. Why did the Pilgrims risk everything
to get on a rickety little ship Compared to ships
in boats today? It was a rickety little thing. They
traveled the Atlantic Ocean to a place that was foreign
(01:49):
and unknown, and they were on a boat that the
last thing about it was pleasant or luxury. They had
no idea what they were going to encounter, but it
had to be better than what they were fleeing. And
what they were fleeing was religious persecution. Now the real
(02:10):
story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole
version like everybody. I was taught a sanitized modern version
that has elements of political correctness and multicultural as. I
was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved
from starvation and deprivation by the loving, goodhearted, compassionate and
(02:35):
carrying stewards of the earth, the Indians. The Pilgrims didn't
know how to grow corn, food, maize, popcorn, anything of
a sort. When they got here, the Indians showed them
all of that, and Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting the
Indians over for dinner to thank the Indians for saving them,
(03:00):
the Native Americans. Everybody has been taught a version of that,
But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The story the
Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be
the sixteen hundreds. The Church of England under King James
(03:21):
was persecuting anybody and everybody who did not recognize its
absolute civil and spiritual authority. The government was God, the
government was the religion, the government was the Church, and
those who challenged that, those who believe strongly in freedom
of worship, were hunted down. They were imprisoned and sometimes
(03:43):
executed for their religious beliefs in sixteen hundreds of England.
So a group of separatists, people that didn't want any
part of this, they'd had it their limit, first fled
to Holland. That's right. The Pilgrims did not come on
the same route as the Titanic. They didn't come from
(04:06):
from England. They fled to Holland and they established a
community there and after eleven years, forty of them agreed
to make the journey to what was then called the
New World, where they knew they would certainly face hardships,
but the promise was that they could live and worship
God according to the dictates of their own consciences, the
(04:31):
belief and freedom of religion to engage in this kind
of activity in order to be able to do it,
to be able to cross an ocean to a place
you have no idea what to expect, just to be
able to worship as you choose. So August one to Mayflowers.
At sail there were one passengers, including forty Pilgrims. The
(04:54):
whole the whole ship was not Pilgrims, forty of them.
They were led by men and William Bradford. On the journey,
Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established well
what it was was socialism, just and equal laws for
all members of the new community quote unquote, irrespective of
(05:18):
their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in
the Mayflower Compact come from? These are religious people that
came from the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people that
were completely steeped in the lessons of the Old New Testaments,
(05:38):
and the Pilgrims looked at the ancient Israelites for their example,
and because of the biblical precedents in scripture, they didn't
doubt their experiment would work. They were people with incredible faith.
The journey to the New World was long, it was arduous.
(05:59):
When they landed in New England in November, according to
Bradford's journal, they found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness, no
friends to greet them, no doc no motel six, no
gas stations, no strip, nothing rocks and coastline, no houses.
(06:27):
There were no hotels, no ends, and the sacrifice they
had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter,
half of them died, including William Bradford's own wife, of
either starvation, sickness, or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians
(06:50):
Native Americans did indeed teach the settlers how to plant corn,
how to fish for cod, skin beavers, for coats. Life
improved for the Pilgrims, but they didn't prosper, not yet.
Now this is important to understand because this is where
modern American history listens, and this is what the modern
(07:12):
Thanksgiving story is. Pilgrims show up don't know what they're doing.
Nothing for them, no place to stay, They're starving. The
Indians fed them, showed them how to feed themselves and
make coats and stay warm, and Thanksgiving happen. That's not
the story. That's not why the Pilgrims gave thanks That's
not why George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving holiday. The
(07:39):
Indians did indeed help them, and they learned how to
plant corn, and they had a big feast, and we
celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving is actually explained in textbooks
as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to
the Indians for saving their lives, rather than it was
(08:03):
the Pilgrims Thanksgiving was a thanks to God for helping
them in their belief in Him and Scripture into arranging
their affairs and forming their colony in a way that
ultimately they could survive. And if you doubt this, go
(08:26):
look at George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. When Thanksgiving became
a national holiday, I've got it here, and I might
even share excerpts from it before we're through here today.
But let me move on. You cannot escape the fact
that Thanksgiving was a national holiday rooted in thanking God
(08:47):
for America. That was George Washington's purpose Thanksgiving was to
thank God for America for everything that had happened leading
to the founding of America. Everything Washington, many of the
founder felt divine inspiration throughout the entire period of time
following the pilgrim's arrival. Now here's the part that's been
(09:08):
omitted from the textbooks. Remember that original contract that the
pilgrims all signed aboard the Mayflower. Well, they had merchant sponsors.
They didn't have any money. They had people paying them
sponsoring their trip. They didn't have the money to make
the trip themselves. These sponsors were in Holland and London.
(09:30):
They had to be repaid. So that contract called for
everything the pilgrims produced to go into a common store,
a single bank account, if you will, And each member
of the community was entitled to an equal share of
the gross This was fair, This was equal. This was same.
(09:50):
All the land they cleared, the houses they built, they
belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. Everything
was owned by the community. Everybody equal share to all
of it. They were going to distribute it equally. Everybody
would get the same everybody would be the same. All
the land they cleared, the houses they built belonged to
the community. Nobody owned anything. It was a commune. It
(10:13):
was Humboldt County, California, minus the weed. They even had
organic vegetables. Now, William Bradford, who had become the new
governor of the condomy, recognized that this wasn't working. They
weren't making any money to pay off the sponsors. But
(10:33):
you know what else was happening since everybody got an
equal share no matter what, There were some lazy sloths. Yes,
some of the original pilgrims of their offspring just sat
around and did nothing all day while the others picked
up the slack. And Bradford originally, at least at some point,
(10:54):
so this isn't gonna work, and so they essentially tore
up that first contract, which they didn't know it, but
that was socialism, and what they did was creating new
community based on what we would call capitalism today. The
more you produced, the more you got to keep, the
harder you work, the greater were the fruits of your labors.
(11:15):
If you wanted a bigger home than somebody else you
could afford to build it, you did it. You didn't
have to share it. And this, this change unleashed everything,
and the Pilgrims became a going economic concern, and they
experienced economic plenty, far greater than any they would have
under the previous Mayflower contract arrangement. Bradford writes about all
(11:40):
of this in his journal. And it is for this
that the original Pilgrims gave things, not to the Indians
saving them, but to God for helping them to survive
and thrive in a place none had ever been. Okay, folks,
(12:04):
now here's here's where this gets good. William Bradford, the
governor of the colony, after abandoning the original compact and
in converting to hey, you can keep what you earn,
and earn as much as you produce. And so when
that when when free enterprise was turned loose. In Bradford's journal,
this had very good success, for it made all hands industrious,
(12:29):
so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would
have been. In other words, they had economic growth. They
had prosperity because there was personal incentive. Rather than everybody
getting a share of what others, some none on an
everybody else produced. And so the Pilgrims found that they
(12:53):
had more food than they could eat themselves. Now this
this is where what you've been told about Thanksgiving enters
the picture. The Indians had more than they could share to,
more than they could eat, more food than they could
serve each other. They invited the Indians, They set up
(13:19):
treading posts, they exchanged goods with the Indians, and the
profits finally allowed them pay off the debts to the sponsors,
the merchants in London and Holland who had sponsored them.
But it was the sharing of the bounty that was
created by the change in governing structure that led to
the plenty that allowed them to invite the Indians and
(13:42):
share all of this with them. That's the story most
people get. But they've then mistaught that the Indians provided
all the food because the Pilgrims are incapable. It is
the exact opposite. Now they're just one more element of
this the true story of Thanksgiving. You may or may
not have heard of the Great Puritan migration. That is
(14:04):
what happened after the pilgrims original two or three years
setting up shop. This is fundamentally important to understand. The
Great Pilgrim Migration occurred because of the overwhelming success at
(14:25):
growing their community. The word of what the Pilgrims had
done spread. I mean there were ships going back and
forth New World to England and Europe all the time,
and words spread of this newfound prosperity, of this new world,
of the new opportunities, of the religious freedom and other
(14:47):
freedoms that had been created after the arrival of the Pilgrims.
Had none of that happened, had had the had the
real story of Thanksgiving? Then that the Pilgrims were a
decrepit munch out of place and didn't know how to
take care of them selves. And if it weren't for
the Indians, they would have died. There would have been
no reason for anybody to follow them. It would have
been judged a failure. But it was anything but, and
(15:10):
it's not taught today. But the fact of the matter
is that the Pilgrims, they were not ideologues. It wasn't
that somebody said we're gonna try socialism. It's just the
way they set it up. They wanted to be fair
with everybody. It was a natural thing. We'll have a
common store, everybody has one share, and everything we do
and make goes into that bank, and everybody gets an
equal percentage of it. Well, human nature interceded and there
(15:33):
were some lazy people didn't do anything, and they didn't
have to. They were entitled to an equal share no
matter what they did. That didn't work very long. They
set up free enterprise where the fruits of your labor
determined what you got, what you had, and what you're
able to do, and it formed the basis of forming
the basic arrangements they had as a community. Well, it
(15:54):
was so successful, and that's what they gave thanks for.
These were deeply religious people. They were giving thanks for
having been shown the light and the word spread and
that began the great Puritan migration, and that's when the
flood of European arrivals began. After the success of the
original Plymouth colony. That's never taught is part of the
(16:17):
original Thanksgiving story, and now you know it. And we
every year we passed this on because the audience always
has new members each and every well, not just year,
each and every month, every day,
So the real story of Thanksgiving. It is a tradition
on this program, and this is the time of year
the to me, the holiday season begins and I think,
I think to most people, and this time of year,
I I just become overwhelmed with some of the emotions, memories,
(00:23):
and the way I'm built. Most of my memories are positive.
I think in my case, when I think of nostalgia
or or the past, the things that automatically occurred to me,
their pleasant ones. It takes me to the true story
of Thanksgiving. It was written about in chapter six of
c I Told You So book Too. It's the chapter
(00:45):
titled Dead White Guys or what the History Books Never
tell You. And this chapter, by the way, served as
the foundation for the first book in the Rush Revere series,
Rush Revere in The Brave Pilgrims, we're in addition to
the true story of Banksgiving, we have the true story
of the Pilgrims, who they were, where they came from,
(01:07):
why they came, what happened when they got here, what
they had to do to fix what went wrong when
they got here, and what role of Pilgrims play in
the overall founding of American Rush Revere and the Brave
Pilgrims as the first book of five in the Rush
Revere Time Travel Adventures with Exceptional American series, which is
(01:27):
written for young people. Why did the Pilgrims risk everything
to get on a rickety little ship Compared to ships
in boats today? It was a rickety little thing. They
traveled the Atlantic Ocean to a place that was foreign
(01:49):
and unknown, and they were on a boat that the
last thing about it was pleasant or luxury. They had
no idea what they were going to encounter, but it
had to be better than what they were fleeing. And
what they were fleeing was religious persecution. Now the real
(02:10):
story of Thanksgiving. And I wasn't even taught the whole
version like everybody. I was taught a sanitized modern version
that has elements of political correctness and multicultural as. I
was taught that Thanksgiving was about the Pilgrims being saved
from starvation and deprivation by the loving, goodhearted, compassionate and
(02:35):
carrying stewards of the earth, the Indians. The Pilgrims didn't
know how to grow corn, food, maize, popcorn, anything of
a sort. When they got here, the Indians showed them
all of that, and Thanksgiving was the Pilgrims inviting the
Indians over for dinner to thank the Indians for saving them,
(03:00):
the Native Americans. Everybody has been taught a version of that,
But ladies and gentlemen, it isn't true. The story the
Pilgrims begins in the early part of the seventeenth century.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that would be
the sixteen hundreds. The Church of England under King James
(03:21):
was persecuting anybody and everybody who did not recognize its
absolute civil and spiritual authority. The government was God, the
government was the religion, the government was the Church, and
those who challenged that, those who believe strongly in freedom
of worship, were hunted down. They were imprisoned and sometimes
(03:43):
executed for their religious beliefs in sixteen hundreds of England.
So a group of separatists, people that didn't want any
part of this, they'd had it their limit, first fled
to Holland. That's right. The Pilgrims did not come on
the same route as the Titanic. They didn't come from
(04:06):
from England. They fled to Holland and they established a
community there and after eleven years, forty of them agreed
to make the journey to what was then called the
New World, where they knew they would certainly face hardships,
but the promise was that they could live and worship
God according to the dictates of their own consciences, the
(04:31):
belief and freedom of religion to engage in this kind
of activity in order to be able to do it,
to be able to cross an ocean to a place
you have no idea what to expect, just to be
able to worship as you choose. So August one to Mayflowers.
At sail there were one passengers, including forty Pilgrims. The
(04:54):
whole the whole ship was not Pilgrims, forty of them.
They were led by men and William Bradford. On the journey,
Bradford set up an agreement, a contract that established well
what it was was socialism, just and equal laws for
all members of the new community quote unquote, irrespective of
(05:18):
their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in
the Mayflower Compact come from? These are religious people that
came from the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people that
were completely steeped in the lessons of the Old New Testaments,
(05:38):
and the Pilgrims looked at the ancient Israelites for their example,
and because of the biblical precedents in scripture, they didn't
doubt their experiment would work. They were people with incredible faith.
The journey to the New World was long, it was arduous.
(05:59):
When they landed in New England in November, according to
Bradford's journal, they found a cold, barren, desolate wilderness, no
friends to greet them, no doc no motel six, no
gas stations, no strip, nothing rocks and coastline, no houses.
(06:27):
There were no hotels, no ends, and the sacrifice they
had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter,
half of them died, including William Bradford's own wife, of
either starvation, sickness, or exposure. When spring finally came, Indians
(06:50):
Native Americans did indeed teach the settlers how to plant corn,
how to fish for cod, skin beavers, for coats. Life
improved for the Pilgrims, but they didn't prosper, not yet.
Now this is important to understand because this is where
modern American history listens, and this is what the modern
(07:12):
Thanksgiving story is. Pilgrims show up don't know what they're doing.
Nothing for them, no place to stay, They're starving. The
Indians fed them, showed them how to feed themselves and
make coats and stay warm, and Thanksgiving happen. That's not
the story. That's not why the Pilgrims gave thanks That's
not why George Washington proclaimed the first Thanksgiving holiday. The
(07:39):
Indians did indeed help them, and they learned how to
plant corn, and they had a big feast, and we
celebrate that today. But Thanksgiving is actually explained in textbooks
as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to
the Indians for saving their lives, rather than it was
(08:03):
the Pilgrims Thanksgiving was a thanks to God for helping
them in their belief in Him and Scripture into arranging
their affairs and forming their colony in a way that
ultimately they could survive. And if you doubt this, go
(08:26):
look at George Washington's first Thanksgiving proclamation. When Thanksgiving became
a national holiday, I've got it here, and I might
even share excerpts from it before we're through here today.
But let me move on. You cannot escape the fact
that Thanksgiving was a national holiday rooted in thanking God
(08:47):
for America. That was George Washington's purpose Thanksgiving was to
thank God for America for everything that had happened leading
to the founding of America. Everything Washington, many of the
founder felt divine inspiration throughout the entire period of time
following the pilgrim's arrival. Now here's the part that's been
(09:08):
omitted from the textbooks. Remember that original contract that the
pilgrims all signed aboard the Mayflower. Well, they had merchant sponsors.
They didn't have any money. They had people paying them
sponsoring their trip. They didn't have the money to make
the trip themselves. These sponsors were in Holland and London.
(09:30):
They had to be repaid. So that contract called for
everything the pilgrims produced to go into a common store,
a single bank account, if you will, And each member
of the community was entitled to an equal share of
the gross This was fair, This was equal. This was same.
(09:50):
All the land they cleared, the houses they built, they
belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. Everything
was owned by the community. Everybody equal share to all
of it. They were going to distribute it equally. Everybody
would get the same everybody would be the same. All
the land they cleared, the houses they built belonged to
the community. Nobody owned anything. It was a commune. It
(10:13):
was Humboldt County, California, minus the weed. They even had
organic vegetables. Now, William Bradford, who had become the new
governor of the condomy, recognized that this wasn't working. They
weren't making any money to pay off the sponsors. But
(10:33):
you know what else was happening since everybody got an
equal share no matter what, There were some lazy sloths. Yes,
some of the original pilgrims of their offspring just sat
around and did nothing all day while the others picked
up the slack. And Bradford originally, at least at some point,
(10:54):
so this isn't gonna work, and so they essentially tore
up that first contract, which they didn't know it, but
that was socialism, and what they did was creating new
community based on what we would call capitalism today. The
more you produced, the more you got to keep, the
harder you work, the greater were the fruits of your labors.
(11:15):
If you wanted a bigger home than somebody else you
could afford to build it, you did it. You didn't
have to share it. And this, this change unleashed everything,
and the Pilgrims became a going economic concern, and they
experienced economic plenty, far greater than any they would have
under the previous Mayflower contract arrangement. Bradford writes about all
(11:40):
of this in his journal. And it is for this
that the original Pilgrims gave things, not to the Indians
saving them, but to God for helping them to survive
and thrive in a place none had ever been. Okay, folks,
(12:04):
now here's here's where this gets good. William Bradford, the
governor of the colony, after abandoning the original compact and
in converting to hey, you can keep what you earn,
and earn as much as you produce. And so when
that when when free enterprise was turned loose. In Bradford's journal,
this had very good success, for it made all hands industrious,
(12:29):
so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would
have been. In other words, they had economic growth. They
had prosperity because there was personal incentive. Rather than everybody
getting a share of what others, some none on an
everybody else produced. And so the Pilgrims found that they
(12:53):
had more food than they could eat themselves. Now this
this is where what you've been told about Thanksgiving enters
the picture. The Indians had more than they could share to,
more than they could eat, more food than they could
serve each other. They invited the Indians, They set up
(13:19):
treading posts, they exchanged goods with the Indians, and the
profits finally allowed them pay off the debts to the sponsors,
the merchants in London and Holland who had sponsored them.
But it was the sharing of the bounty that was
created by the change in governing structure that led to
the plenty that allowed them to invite the Indians and
(13:42):
share all of this with them. That's the story most
people get. But they've then mistaught that the Indians provided
all the food because the Pilgrims are incapable. It is
the exact opposite. Now they're just one more element of
this the true story of Thanksgiving. You may or may
not have heard of the Great Puritan migration. That is
(14:04):
what happened after the pilgrims original two or three years
setting up shop. This is fundamentally important to understand. The
Great Pilgrim Migration occurred because of the overwhelming success at
(14:25):
growing their community. The word of what the Pilgrims had
done spread. I mean there were ships going back and
forth New World to England and Europe all the time,
and words spread of this newfound prosperity, of this new world,
of the new opportunities, of the religious freedom and other
(14:47):
freedoms that had been created after the arrival of the Pilgrims.
Had none of that happened, had had the had the
real story of Thanksgiving? Then that the Pilgrims were a
decrepit munch out of place and didn't know how to
take care of them selves. And if it weren't for
the Indians, they would have died. There would have been
no reason for anybody to follow them. It would have
been judged a failure. But it was anything but, and
(15:10):
it's not taught today. But the fact of the matter
is that the Pilgrims, they were not ideologues. It wasn't
that somebody said we're gonna try socialism. It's just the
way they set it up. They wanted to be fair
with everybody. It was a natural thing. We'll have a
common store, everybody has one share, and everything we do
and make goes into that bank, and everybody gets an
equal percentage of it. Well, human nature interceded and there
(15:33):
were some lazy people didn't do anything, and they didn't
have to. They were entitled to an equal share no
matter what they did. That didn't work very long. They
set up free enterprise where the fruits of your labor
determined what you got, what you had, and what you're
able to do, and it formed the basis of forming
the basic arrangements they had as a community. Well, it
(15:54):
was so successful, and that's what they gave thanks for.
These were deeply religious people. They were giving thanks for
having been shown the light and the word spread and
that began the great Puritan migration, and that's when the
flood of European arrivals began. After the success of the
original Plymouth colony. That's never taught is part of the
(16:17):
original Thanksgiving story, and now you know it. And we
every year we passed this on because the audience always
has new members each and every well, not just year,
each and every month, every day,
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