Know Your Place

Tuesday's election results tells all little Black girls not to even try

One of my proofers told me this cartoon is good but very sad. One of my regular readers told me it was very sad. I think it angered a liberal on Twitter, and that’s all within the past hour.

Sad is exactly what I was going for. I wanted to make the little girl extra cute and hopeful-looking. Black parents already have to have “the talk” with their sons, not about sex but about cops. Now, they may have to have a new talk with their daughters. This country won’t accept them beyond “their place.”

Sure, a Black woman can be an executive, own a business, be a governor, a senator, or even a vice president, but she’ll be rejected for the presidency even if her opponent White male is already the worst president in American history.

I got this idea yesterday and started working on it, but then I changed it for the racist Uncle Sam idea (which has nearly 500 likes on X/Twitter, thank you).

This was drawn in the lobby/library of CitizenM in downtown DC. I changed the drawing several times because I wasn’t feeling any of them until I hit this. The lettering was done on two layers on another canvas. Why two layers? Because I lost track of what I was doing.

My next idea is already in my head though another cartoonist may beat me to the punch making the same point.

I’m staying another night in DC, not at the hotel but with a friend…a special lady friend (I’m just adding that here to see if she’s reading. It’s worth a slap to the back of the head). I’ll be back in the Burg tomorrow afternoon.

I’m writing this blog in the courtyard/plaza at a Metro station because someone’s in a meeting and I better not interrupt her.

Drawn in 30 Seconds:

Timelapse with a voiceover:

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