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If people (in this case, the particular people mentioned in the cartoon) lack the capacity to see that their behavior is in every way identical to those hooded Klansmen of days gone by, then perhaps a good swift kick to the balls is what is required for them to 'see' it.History...?
I mean...let's deconstruct it.
You have symbols of a real racist past....like people still alive today had to deal with. A domestic terror group that targeted blacks. Lynchings which was the method for vigilante justice against blacks (interesting enough Zimmerman was a wannabe cop/vigilante). You take those symbols of real oppression and turn it on it's head. Allude to the oppressed becoming the oppressors? As if largely peaceful protests and calls to actions are in anyway the same as the Jim Crow South and the Klu Klux Klan?
Let's go further. The guy yelling about not letting an all white jury let off Zimmerman (in broken "ebonics" for true racist effect). The actual history was that the KKK would string up a black guy and an all white jury would find them not guilty in the face of insurmountable evidence. So this makes light of a real historical fact and turns it on it's head. It completely ignores the fact that blacks never received justice. Another slap in the face because blacks wouldn't receive justice and in this case they feel as if they didn't receive justice.
Oh...lets not forget that the first black president and the NAACP which was actually targeted by the KKK and acted to eliminate it from the south are now Klan members.
Honestly...this is the most racist piece of filth in the world. I'm surprised it's not from Stormfront or some equivalent site. I'm not as surprised that conservatives either are unaware of the history and all the intentional offending parts of this cartoon or just don't care and are racist.
Zimmerman...a hispanic male, was arrested, tried, and exonerated. The system was engaged and worked (and lets be honest...he should NEVER have been arrested or tried...it was all a mejican donkey show with the justice system being the chiquita bent over a table). After the trial there are a WHOLE LOT of people out there clamoring for street justice, a little kill whitey action (ummmm...NOT a white guy, but lets not worry about facts), a little robbery and looting because how better to show you are displeased with the US Justice system than by stealing a TV?).