Mansour: Instead of 'Canceling' Thanksgiving, Celebrate It as Our Founding Myth

We choose the Pilgrims as our founding myth because they embodied our most cherished ideals. They were the best of us. We celebrate their story to acknowledge our highest aspirations, not to whitewash our history or minimize our mistakes. Thanksgiving affirms who we want to be because it is about who the Pilgrims actually were.