I will be posting two comics on racial prejudice, one on the way the blacks are treated, and how it is now in modern times.
In my first comic strip, the first picture background shows a rich man's house, which will emphasize, the racial prejudice, as even a rich white man is unwilling, or should I say, uncouthly reluctant to spare the black beggar. Stressing the rich man, he has, in abundance, of how much he can give , but is still stingy and reluctant to give food to a black man, just because he is black. The background does show a rich man's house as the window is refurbished, and his lawn is very well kept. So, the background chose stresses racial discrimination and prejudice.
I made the white man make very uncouth and rude remarks to the black beggar, so much till no respect is shown. And I even wrote that the black beggar tried to request for food, and still got rejected blankly. That does not only show that the whites despise and show no respect to the blacks, but shows, ironically, that the black man was willing, on his part, to beg from a white. It does not stress desperateness but stresses the respect the blacks even give the whites. So if the black beggar respect the white man, it is definitely prejudice for the white man to discriminate the black- yet so rudely.
The black man I chose had very torn and tattered clothing, so it would bring out to the readers that he has no money, no food, and describe to the readers that he is a beggar. After gaining sympathy from the readers, I purposely put in a well polished, neat, ( with a tie, if you noticed), high classed, white man, who sputtered very rude words to him. Sympathy and pity would work its way into enhancing the theme of racial prejudice with such choices.
Later on the beggar has no choice but to go to the rubbish dump to forage for food.
Below the beggar and the white man shows a scene whereby a black woman performs in front of a booing crowd. The crowd immediately boos, and show signs of disapproval and discontent.
After that the picture shows the manager shouting to the black woman that she is sacked, and shows no respect at all. The picture whereby all the crowd boos at her portrays a sign of disrespect and despise. This links to racial prejudice, the theme, as the crowd is putting themselves above the black woman , who is trying hard to perform and entertain them. These images show that the manager is using her to earn money and then dispose of her- treating her as a tool. The image where the manager is shouting at her does not indicate anger of fury but instead disrespect and prejudice as he thinks he is much more worthy than her and is always at liberty to lash her.
My second comic strip shows the American President now, Mr Barack Obama, ever so willingly allowing a white beggar to enter his presidential house. In direct contrast, Mr Obama allows a white beggar to even enter his house to have a seat in his posh house, and have quality food. Does this seem ironic? The white rich man uncouthly rejected a black beggar's plea, but Mr Obama, ever so respectably allowed a white beggar in his house. This shows the gradual progression of racial prejudice abolishing. And supports the theme that racial prejudice must stop.
I have used a metaphor in my first comic strip when the white man called the poor black beggar filth. This obviously would indicate disrespect and intrusion of one's dignity, leading to a clear link of racial prejudice.
Yes, this is about everything I have done for today's home learning. I hope you enjoy my comics and see the way I weave the theme out from this comic and interpret racial prejudice well :) Enjoy my comics everyone!!
-Benedict Chin
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