Southerners used to attack Thanksgiving as a CRT plot to push abolitionist values on the former Confederacy. I had no idea that eating pumpkin pie used to be a culture war flashpoint! https://t.co/8IZnJwc33G

— Dr. Lydia Bean (@LydiaBeanTexas) November 25, 2021

“…Governor Wise of Virginia answered letters from Hale by telling her he wanted nothing to do with “this theatrical national claptrap of Thanksgiving, which has aided other causes in setting thousands of pulpits to preaching ‘Christian politics.’” Wise’s statement directly referred to anti-slavery politics.
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