What if they had built a wall…?
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Happy Thanksgiving to those of you celebrate it! I thought this cartoon was pretty appropriate. 
Hat tip to Harlow’s Monkey, and check out the original source.
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- November 23rd, 2006 at 9:00 am
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Lyonside wrote:
*applause**applause**applause*
Posted 23 Nov 2006 at 12:03 pm ¶
MizuWari wrote:
Niiiiice…very on point!
Posted 23 Nov 2006 at 2:11 pm ¶
FrancesM wrote:
Perfect!
Posted 23 Nov 2006 at 3:11 pm ¶
HighJive wrote:
two quick thoughts:
don’t have the historical documentation to prove it, but walls seem to be a eurocentric fetish.
malcolm x said, “we didn’t land on plymouth rock — plymouth rock landed on us.”
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 2:53 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
HighJive,
Eh, different civs have always built walls. China’s for starters (not that the Mongols didn’t get in anyway).
If you’re talking the Americas, you have sparser populations, decreasing the need for walls. But I seem to recall reading forts in pre-contact areas where there were conflicts with neighboring groups, villages, or tribes.
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 12:00 pm ¶
HighJive wrote:
actually, i was just kidding.
although it does seem to be a eurocentric (i.e., white male) fetish, despite the fact that they didn’t invent the notion.
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 1:16 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Sorry, I’m too serious sometimes
Just to prove I do have a sense of humor:
“That’s how you build an empire: we stole countries with the cunning use of flags. You just sail around the world and stick a flag in: ‘I claim India for Britain.’
And they go, ‘You can’t claim us, we live here. 500 million of us!’
‘Do you have a flag?’”
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 1:40 pm ¶
justin wrote:
It is important that this conversation stays jolly, cause comparing indigenous rights to right wing xenophobia is like comparing abortion to murder and no-one wants to go down that yucky icky path.
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 5:17 pm ¶
tmk wrote:
love it!!
Posted 24 Nov 2006 at 7:54 pm ¶
S wrote:
What a GREAT POINT!
Oh, that comic is beautiful. It should be blown up into signs for us to carry at our next Immigration protest.
Posted 25 Nov 2006 at 9:58 am ¶