K Chronicles – Another Modest Proposal
by Racialicious Special Correspondent Latoya Peterson
The latest K Chronicles on Salon.com: (click image below for larger view)
Everyone who enjoyed this comic, please take a moment to let Salon know how much you appreciate Keith’s perspective.
(Also, I find it amazing that Keith’s comics attract thoughtful letters – it is a complete change from the normal level of comments posted on Salon.)
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Alston wrote:
I don’t think that such graphic photos would have that kind of effect. I think that in this so-called post-racist world, that people would quickly become desensitized, that people would simply say that blacks are race-baiting and blaming the wrong people, and so on.
Posted 07 Mar 2008 at 1:14 pm ¶
Gregory A. Butler wrote:
I feel Keith’s sentiment – but I don’t think it will work.
1. White folks already think of Black men as murderous monsters – it would just reinforce that deadly stereotype.
2. As for the brothas on the corner with the 9mm’s – there are certain iron economic realities which govern that sphere of the business world.
a. many young Black men are locked out of legit jobs
b. they’re driven to the drug trade, for lack of other options
c. in the drug world, because that business is itself illegal, business disputes and labor conficts must be settled by illegal, usually violent, means.
Bottom line, as long as Black men are forced into the underground economy, there will be drug related murders.
If you don’t change that basic economic reality, nothing else can be done – and moralistic handwringing, while understandible, is less than useless.
Posted 07 Mar 2008 at 3:08 pm ¶