{"id":129,"date":"2020-08-26T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/?p=129"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:58:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T19:58:29","slug":"anti-immigration-and-racism-1968-and-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/bloodycoflict\/2020\/08\/26\/anti-immigration-and-racism-1968-and-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-immigration and Racism: 1968 and 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
The use of posters to voice one’s opinion on a certain event has always been very fascinating to me. Instead of writing an article, a lot can be conveyed through a simple image and a few words printed onto a poster. I studied a lot, in my junior year of high school, how to analyze a political poster to understand the full story behind and meaning of a political poster. It is an art. After inspecting the posters regarding the Irish civil rights era from Geoff Brown, it is easy to understand what was going on politically when the posters were made, and the voices of civilians upon those matters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This poster, created after Enoch Powell\u2019s \u2018Rivers of Blood\u2019 speech of April 20, 1968, shows the anger people felt after that racist speech. This poster also touches on racism, targeting people for their skin color and race. After some research on this infamous \u2018Rivers of Blood speech\u2019, Powell essentially argued that Britain should not allow immigration to Britain from the country\u2019s former colonies and to send home immigrants that have already moved to Britain, on the claims that there would be a violent clash between white and black communities. I think this poster is still very relevant today. With Donald Trump closing borders to countries he believes are dangerous, and the wall between the US and Mexico, anti-immigration is still prevalent. Almost four years after Trump pledged to divide Mexico and the US with a wall, it has not been completed for the reasons why this poster was created: immigrants are not the issue, racism is. With the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States, there is still a fight to end racism, making yet another connection between 1968 and 2020.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The use of posters to voice one’s opinion on a certain event has always been very fascinating to me. Instead of writing an article, a lot can be conveyed through a simple image and a few words printed onto a poster. I studied a lot, in my junior year of high school, how to analyze … <\/p>\n
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