I chose birds on a wire, by Bankey for this assignment. I chose this photo because I think it’s a good way to show the racism that goes on daily in every country. In the picture, it shows pigeon like birds holding up signs saying “Go back to Africa”, “keep off our worms”, and “ Migrants not welcomed”. These pigeons are showing this sign to a smaller bird with more colours, which its homeland is Africa. Reading those things, I think that the “keep off our worms” infers that the pigeons represent the citizens of the country where people immigrate, they are saying something like; “stay off our land, don’t eat our food, don’t work, don’t take our jobs, etc…”. Another thing is that the pigeons were saying to the small African bird, “go back to Africa”, in real life events, people go through this everyday. A big place where this happens is the USA, towards Mexico. I am no huge expert on this, but throughout the years there has been so much racism towards Mexicans regarding immigrating to the states. So think of the pigeons like Americans, and the little bird as literally any people from foreign country. It’s unfair and most people have learned to be normal civilized people, helping immigrants instead of tearing them down, but there will always be a group of people that have problems. Last quick thing, this also ties into the racism that happens every day in the streets of the states (even Canada but less of it), regarding African Americans. Last year, with all the protests, there is always an anti-change group, who does not want equality and thinks they are superior because of their skin tone, or ethnicity.
