Bad Art for a Cause

[teaberryblue]

So, basically, the situation in Jena, Louisiana is getting pitiful coverage around here which is not to say that it's getting no coverage so much as it's getting a mix of no coverage and coverage that is woefully short on details.

This means that I explained it about five times to five different people, in detail, over the course of the past two days.

And pretty much everyone has the same reaction, which is "WTF WHAT DECADE IS THIS?"

Anyway, I decided that I could do my part to help tell people what is going on.


Read my Jena, Louisiana Primer


This is just the first chapter. Yes, it is highly snarky. Yes, it is badly drawn. But I think it gets across my general feelings about the situation.

Comments

[lextaci.livejournal.com]

Wow. I know I'm on the other side of the world, but I still can't believe I hadn't even heard about this. Tree-posterous indeed!

[teaberryblue.livejournal.com]

It's getting very oddly uneven news coverage! I haven't even gotten up to the biggest part of the story--you should go google it or read the timeline I've posted on the page!

[lextaci.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've just been reading up on it.

And it's really fucked up. o_O

[dancedarkly.livejournal.com]

Seconded.

Mind, if I hadn't just seen that article on female members of the Australian Navy getting tax-payer-funded boob-jobs for 'psychological reasons', I would believe we didn't get any relevant international news. *cough*

[lextaci.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's just embarrasing! Although it's cool that, since that story came out, something like 50 male sailors have requested Viagra prescriptions for 'psychological reasons'. XD

And I wouldn't be surprised if the Jena story hadn't come up in Aus newspapers - they're notoriously bad - but my family subscribes to The Guardian International and Le Monde, so I really should have heard about this. Crazy.

[dancedarkly.livejournal.com]

Hah! We'll probably hear about that in a few days' time. So much more important than major international relations issues or whatever else we don't hear about.

And yeah, my family usually reads the BBC reports online. I was surprised that SA hadn't picked it up as a race issue, really, but the Mail and Guardian's got it now. Fucked up indeed.

Heh, Tea, slogan for you. 'Another man's T-shirt told that part of the story: "I came to Jena to cut down the white tree of white supremacy."' LOTR/racism crossover?

Comic is good stuff.