Should Black People Celebrate Thanksgiving? [#EBONYDebate]
By Kymone Freeman for Ebony - I remember the year I tried to boycott Thanksgiving. I was 19, entering that necessary but annoying phase of young self-righteous and half-informed quasi-pro-Blackness. I drove home anyway because students were essentially kicked out of dorms for the holiday. As soon as I hit the door, the aroma of greens, fatback and yams hit me in the face like a Tyson hook. My grandmother (whom I had tipped off about my plan on the phone earlier) turned to me while stirring the greens slyly. “You gon’ eat, or what?” I’d never tasted greens that good before.