They say there’s equal justice under the law. But when, as happened last week, a black man kills white cops, he gets blown up by a robot bomb. When a white cop shoots black guys, he gets the benefit of the doubt from the police’s Internal Affairs department, the district attorney, majority white juries and favorable media spin.
If Equal Justice Were a Real Thing
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication, WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a frequent contributor to The Wall Street Journal, a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "The Stringer."
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I don’t think the situation can be made more plain than you made it here, Ted.
For those who still don’t see, they just don’t want to see.
Hey, Cool! It almost looks as if I inspired Ted on this one.
I’ll take a million dollars or ten percent of the proceeds, whichever is greater…
I think you might owe Ted for validating a concept in a media that you, not being a cartoonist, don’t otherwise have access to. This is what a commercial artist is generally hired to do.
You failed to copyright or demonstrate that the concept in question was not already in the public domain.
Just my 2 cents, CH, payable to me in US currency.
Will accept bitcoin.
Sure thing. That’ll still leave me with $999,999.98
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I’m pretty sure somebody else thought of it before me, as well – or maybe I lifted it from one of Ted’s earlier cartoons…
Nothing surprising here, Ted, the first Fugitive Slave Act on a national basis in the US, that of 1793, entitled «An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters», was passed by the 2nd US Congress in February of that year. It’s in the country’s blood/genes/whatever….
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose….
Henri