Last week the Supreme Court decided that affirmative action that uses race as a factor in college admissions in favor of underrepresented and historically marginalized (I.e., oppressed) racial minorities is bad. Chief Justice John Roberts advocates a “colorblind” interpretation of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged racism
I try to avoid using Orwellian tropes in my work, because they get overused in political discourse, and often misused. But when the right keeps using the law to remove books and forbid teaching on subjects that make them uncomfortable[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The murder of Tyre Nichols by Memphis cops set off a weekend of protests across the country. This follows weeks of protests in Atlanta against “Cop City”, a School of Americas style training camp to make police even more oppressive[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every week something happens to freak out straight white cys dudes. This comic barely covers the range of things that have set them off over the past decade. Lately it was Lizzo playing James Madison’ flute. I can’t ever watch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Republicans have been using migrants as pawns in an Own the Libs game for a while now, but this time one of them may have “gone too far.” Ron Desantis duped a few dozen migrants into a plane flight to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This week Elon Musk lent his billion dollar voice to the chorus of critics offended by the sight of Black faces on Amazon Prime’s “Rings of Power” series. For some reason they think JRR Tolkien wouldn’t have tolerated a variety[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I have been drawing cartoons written by Barry Deutsch for his political comic strip, Lefty Cartoons for a while now, and a new one launched today: The News Could Not Be Any More Objective. You can also view it at[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In a mirror universe, I suppose. The Washington Post has a story about how the Trump Organization for decades has used undocumented migrant workers from Latin America to build its empire of golf courses and wineries, paying them below scale[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The president just spoke out against hatred and bigotry like a child forced to give a book report.
Senator Elizabeth Warren released her proposal for universal child care in the United States as part of her presidential campaign platform, so I thought I’d do a little reading on how the policy has played out elsewhere. There is a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…