A professor in the college town of Claremont intervened to prevent kindergartners from dressing up as Wampanoag Indians and Pilgrims for Thanksgiving:

“It’s demeaning…I’m sure you can appreciate the inappropriateness of asking children to dress up like slaves (and kind slave masters), or Jews (and friendly Nazis), or members of any other racial minority group who has struggled in our nation’s history…There is nothing to be served by dressing up as a racist stereotype”…

Raheja, an English professor at UC Riverside who specializes in Native American literature, said she met with teachers and administrators in hopes that the district could hold a public forum to discuss alternatives that celebrate thankfulness without “dehumanizing” her daughter’s ancestry.

We wonder what the outcry would have been if some of the kindergartners would have worn exactly what young Wampanoag boys apparently actually wore in 1621.

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