A Mom named Marissa
the K Chronicles: “A Mom Named Marissa”
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the K Chronicles: “A Mom Named Marissa”
You leave me speechless…
20 years for shooting a bullet into the ceiling? This isn’t right even if it would have been the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel! And Mr. Z. leaves the courtroom as a free man????
Strange, dark, unknown America… the land of confusion!
This makes me sad and angry. I think America is trying to put every Black person it can either in prison, or in a grave.
My god. What on earth was the charge? Our country has been really horrifying me this year.
Keith, thank you for bringing this to the public’s attention! I’ve emailed the cartoon to many people and hope others do, too.
Only an outcry from the public will change things.
(And your final thought was, even though this is a serious topic, so FUNNY!)
Sometimes I’m embarrassed to be an American, but at least I live nowhere near Florida.
Expect another bizarre turn in the Zimmerman story when he’s sued for wrongful death in civil court. Which is great, but is kind of backward.
Correction – had she shot a black TEENAGER, she would have walked. You see, its okay to shoot unarmed people of color in Florida, or pretty much anywhere south of the Mason-Dixon line. This is a tradition celebrated by Anglo Saxons in the region since, well, since the first slave ships arrived. Cultural tradition and all….
Thank you Keef.
*sigh* Sometimes I feel like I live in the Bizarro version of the United States.
I am nneither Americannor do I live in the US so I sometimes have some difficulty undersfanding what the point of the issue is. The noise comes from all directions. This strip seems to thave cleared all my questions.
Obviously the ceiling was white.
Time for another “March on Washington”. What those people in Florida are getting away with is sickening and that includes the right-wing claptrap.
Something big needs to happen in this country right now, this year, to reverse this BS.
That Marissa’s sentence is unconscionable for the nature of the crime is clear. Having read this (despite the source it seems a reliable account), I’m not so sure her conviction was wrong: The Real Marissa Alexander Story [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354178/real-marissa-alexander-story-ian-tuttle/page/0/1].
“There’s a WAR going on…….” with rastafarian tunes in the background.
The hits just keep comin’ (as they used to say back in the day) – Florida is an absolute bastion for racists, deadbeat parents, and violent ciminals/murderers (not all mutually exclusive roles)who act with impunity, and the people who actively allow them to act with impunity. Now he lunatic who killed his lady & put it on FB can be added to thje list from this vast wasteland of human atrocities. How can we help the humane, kind minority still living there (half sarcastic)