BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Black Lives Matter raised eyebrows with a Thanksgiving post that characterized America as “stolen land.”
“You are eating dry turkey and overcooked stuffing on stolen land,” BLM’s national arm wrote on Twitter Thursday. The post included a graphic repeating the “stolen land” claim.
“You are on stolen land. Colonization never ended, it just became normalized,” the graphic said, instructing Americans to learn “which ancestral homeland” they are “currently occupying.”
The statement – originally posted on Instagram and later tweeted and retweeted – blamed the British for stealing the land from Native Americans. And then they blamed one Native American tribe from stealing it from another Native American tribe. BLM continued going back for tens of thousands of years, and alleged that cavemen were dark skinned, carried clubs, and were incredible batters in the first baseball league.