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Banksy "Birds on a Wire" and Judith Wright, "The Dark…
Banksy "Birds on a Wire" and Judith Wright, "The Dark Ones"
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Global context
Racial discrimination against African Americans and migrants from countries in East Asia, for the rationalization that it places undue burden on the government and on scarce resources (which Banksy addresses by antagonizing the group that claims this).
Colonization by large kingdoms and empires can have far-reaching implications that last not only for years, but even centuries, establishing a power dynamic between the two groups that continues to be exploited. It can cause shame and discrimination for both the future members of the colonizer group and for the colonized themselves.
Authorial choices
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Metaphor
Metaphor
Faces of Pale Stone (stoic and unmoving, unreactive to the agony and suffering the colonized go through)
Babble of Shamed relief (highlights the shame on the part of the oppressors and how this can form over multiple generations)
"The baragining goes on" (describes how society resists change and influence by the "dark ones", and goes on continuing how it always was)
Banksy
Colour and contrast
Green and blue can be considered colours representing freedom, but its use is ironic in this circumstance, since the bird is driven back to its home country.
Banksy does this to comment that these conflicts occur not because of any intrinsic differences (a common rationalization), but rather simply due to the majority-minority difference
Allusion: here, the bird on the right is asked to "go back to Africa", presumably since that may be where it originated (again, this is stereotyping), very similar to many discriminatory points made in modern society to migrants from LEDCs
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