Horseback

[Saraj Zhou]

[FONT=&quot]Vice President Kamala Harris compared the treatment of Haitian migrants by Border Patrol agents on horseback to the oppression of indigenous people and African Americans during slavery.

What does horseback mean?[/FONT]

 

[tedmc]

The people patrolling the border ride on horses.

 

[emsr2d2]

Did you consider looking up "[on] horseback" in good dictionaries (or even on Google) before asking here?

 

[5jj]

This is a very useful site: https://www.onelook.com/

 

[Saraj Zhou]

Ya, I did. I though it was a phrase and had a different meaning.
But after I read the whole passage, I figured out it just means "riding a horse". So I wrote on the comment that "I have already figured out what it means". But for some reason, the comment did not successed.

 

[tedmc]

Yes, I did. I thought it was a phrase (idiom) and had a different meaning.
But after I read the whole passage, I figured out it just means "riding a horse". So I wrote [STRIKE]on[/STRIKE] the comment that "I have already figured out what it means". But for some reason, the comment did not [STRIKE]successed[/STRIKE] get through.

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[Tdol]

It is the image of people on horseback using the reins to strike people of colour that is the basis for the comparison.

 

[SoothingDave]

Which is a lie because no one was struck by reins.

 

[Tarheel]

Which is a lie because no one was struck by reins.

The photographer pointed that out. It didn't matter.

 

[Tdol]

Impressions stick nowadays.