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Illustration by M. Rasheed

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Illustration by M. Rasheed  

This cartoon was inspired by all of the people who expressed that Trayvon Martin, Tamar Rice and Philando Castile deserved to be murdered by savage racist cops who are now expressing that Trump’s political rivals are wrong for sneering at him contracting COVID-19.

The basic conflict here is that you want to be free to dig into the past of ADOS victims of white racist homicides to justify why it was okay for a white to kill a Black because he may have stolen some item at a shopping mall, or she registered her children at an affluent white school out of her economic class, while you attempt to admonish me for not wishing Trump, Inc. well even though his background demonstrably proves he routinely broke antitrust laws to prey upon entire Black communities to their detriment.

M. Rasheed is creating cartoons, socio-political commentary, and graphic novel series. To see more of his work, click here. 

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