La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for November 26, 2014

It’s all Obama’s fault.

Unfortunately, its way past time, Mr. Native American…

The borders needed to be secured… In 1492!

Maybe Lola’s cartoon is correct. If we secured the borders of the Americas from the Spaniards then 10 of millions of Indian lives would have been saved.

And just think of all the wars in Europe that would never have happened if not funded by stolen gold from Central and South “America”.

@sueamarlucan, Mexico abolished slavery in 1829, 5 years before the British Empire did it in 1834 and Texas has the distinction of having fought twice for slavery. It took a civil war (1860-1865) for the US to abolish slavery but its reverberations are still felt today. As for the 1848 war, Mexico was doomed in part because the Mexican elite (of Spanish blood) wanted nothing to do with the “natives”. Eventually the “natives” with Benito Juarez and Porfirio Diaz took over. The other part is that at the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto the USA learned that superior weapons can win wars: repeating weapons versus single shot muskets. Manifest Destiny here we come. Actually it wasn’t even “a conquest”. In the end we end up “buying” it since we had to bribe the Mexicans to sign the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Baja California was spared because President Polk said we had enough desert.

AS for “borders”, I am sure “Jurassic” America must have been marvelous.

As frequently happens, Lalo is unclear in his writing.

Not if you understand context. Unless, of course, the reader’s aim is to purposely obfuscate the meaning for himself.

Oooor, I can understand history and the English language. Yeah, I think I’ll go with that one.

Give me an example of “it is been”

How about I give an example of “it has been,” which is much more appropriate to the strip.

To slightly paraphrase Aaron Neville: “It has been a long time coming, but I know a change is going to come. Oh yes it will.”

“All right then -“it has been” is the only meaning I (or you) could see.Therefore, all my observations are valid.”

Looks to me like you made one contingent observation, one critique of the author’s form, and asked a lot of questions. Do all those questions count as observations?

The question stands – exactly what is “it”?

The time to secure the border. As in, “We should have done this from the moment these pale yahoos showed up.”

“…it’s been time to secure the border” just doesn’t make sense.

Made perfect sense to me.

Ah, a racist interpretation.

Nope. It’s a long-standing satirization of some white folks’ calling for closing the borders of the US. Basically calling out the hypocrisy of it.

Since it makes perfect sense to you, bad English and all, then you have absolutely no right to take issue with anything I write, since it makes sense to me.

Except that the strip’s phrasing is not bad English. It’s perfectly grammatical and understandable. You just didn’t seem to be able to parse it yourself.

As far as taking issue with you, I understand what you say quite well, and your very clear statements and questions are what I disagree with.

And as long as it makes sense to someone, according to you, it’s okay.

You’re trying to conflate two separate arguments. One is whether a statement can be understood or not. The second is whether or not one agrees with a statement. Two different things. One does not equal the other. And thus, once more, your logic is faulty and your argument is for nought. Better luck next time.