Separate & Unequal: This is why political cartoons matter

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/05/1349612/-Separate-Unequal-This-is-why-political-cartoons-matter/?utm_source=partner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TP&elq=~~eloqua..type--emailfield..syntax--recipientid~~&elqCampaignId=~~eloqua..type--campaign..campaignid--0..fieldname--id~~

Pulitzer-Prize-winning political cartoonist for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution – and avid Daily Kos reader – Mike Lukovich has created an iconic political cartoon. In my view, it's the most powerful, evocative visual representation of the injustices America has witnessed, and the black community has suffered, these past two weeks.

Here's Separate, Unequal:



The body laying on the ground could be Eric Garner or Mike Brown, both of whom were robbed of justice by the grand jury process after their lives had already been taken. But the body laying still, motionless really represents the black community in America, evoking a deadly Jim Crow, reinvented and housed where justice in this country resides.

Or, if you're a minority in America, where justice has yet to fully reside.


What Do You Buy For the Children
David Harris-Gershon is author of the memoir What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, recently published by Oneworld Publications.

[Feral Child]

1. K&R n/t

[chowder66]

2. Wow. nt