12/11/2025
History tends to get polished up in textbooks, but the truth usually lands a lot heavier.
This moment — Dec. 11, 1620 — captures it bluntly: two beings standing at Plymouth Rock, watching three unfamiliar ships roll into the harbor. One look at what was coming, and the buffalo’s reaction says it all: “I have a bad feeling about this.”
Yeah… no kidding.
What we call “arrival” was, for the people already here, the beginning of upheaval — loss of land, culture, and balance. This cartoon doesn’t try to soften the reality. It simply holds up the moment before everything changed and asks us to sit with the truth. That discomfort is part of remembering honestly.
Sometimes the simplest images tell the hardest truths.
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