Saturday 31 January 2015

Black lives matter

In the wake of the Ferguson killing, activists started to use the slogan ‘Black Lives Matter’. Some (white) people have tried to undermine the slogan’s power by declaring ‘All Lives Matter’ instead. Of course all lives matter, but not all lives are being targeted by the police, and discriminated against by society. 

Cartoonist Kris Straub makes the following succinct comment.