Cartoons
La Cucaracha y Mas
I killed that African-American kid in self defense (1876 toon)
This editorial cartoon, In Self-Defense, by cartoonist A. B. Frost, ran in Harper’s Weekly on October 28, 1876, on page 880.
The HarpWeek blog explains:
This image dramatically condemns the brutal racism of some white Southerners against blacks. The white man has killed a black child, and his plea of “self-defense” exemplifies the perspective among Southern whites that Reconstruction had led to “black rule.” The cartoon appeared just a few weeks before the presidential election.
La Cucaracha: Little-known immigration facts #2 (toon)
PREVIOUSLY ON LITTLE-KNOWN IMMIGRATION FACTS:
Ricardo Caté’s ‘Without Reservations’: I can’t breathe (toon)
Native cartoonist Ricardo Caté of the Kewa Pueblo is a friend of POCHO and the author of the hilarious non-PC comic strip Without Reservations, which runs in the Santa Fe New Mexican and soon all over Turtle Island, from beak to tail.
Here one of his characters sports an “I Can’t Breathe” tshirt in support of Eric Garner. In case you didn’t already know, the next most disproportionately killed-by-police group behind African-Americans is Native Americans.
Check out Ricardo’s website here.
@LaloAlcaraz fights for Truth, Justice y la Vida Pocha (video)
Fusion’s Pedro Andrade talked to POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz about fighting for racial justice, and Lalo spilled the beans.
