I drew this last Friday for The Daily Dot. Since then Starbucks has stopped their race initiative and the hanging story from Mississippi has kind of died down. The point of the cartoon still works. I did a cartoon on the Starbucks issue last week and some commentators on blogs wrote that it was the... Continue Reading →
Cheer Up. Maybe Someday Someone Will Take A Shot At You
If you draw cartoons in the United States it's very unlikely someone's going to shoot you for it. You do stand a better chance of getting shot in America for just walking down the street, going to school, eating a cheeseburger, being black, than you would anywhere else in the civilized industrial world. But shot,... Continue Reading →
Selective Vigilance
Commentators on Foxnews say brown people should be profiled. Conservatives argue we need to throw away political correctness and say this is "Islamic" terrorism, not just terrorism. People used to say "I'm not a racist but" right before they would say something racist. Today the go to is "political correctness." Dammit, why can't people just be... Continue Reading →