Political Cartoon

Recently, there was a political cartoon released that is blowing up all over the internet. The context is the fact that many countries are restricting refugees from coming into their countries due to the recent attacks and threats from ISIS. The audience of this cartoon are those in the United States who are closing their borders to refugees. The message the artist is trying to get across is that if the Native Americans refused to let us come across their borders, we wouldn’t be here today. Without the help of the native americans, the pilgrims wouldn’t have survived. The native americans taught them plant and harvest so they could live through the next winter. To understand this cartoon, you need to understand our past history and what is going on in the rest of the world, especially the United States today. Specifically, Texan, Michigan, and Alabama governor's closed their borders due to the ISIS attacks in Paris. The purpose of this cartoon was to show the hypocrisy of the situation. We are saying no one else can come into our country however when we were down on our luck, we were allowed to come over. The cartoon represents the hypocrisies and ironies occurring in our country today.