Your Black Friend (by Ben Passmore)
Picked up for the Read Harder Challenge, this comic is only 11 pages long, but still packs a punch. It's a message to white liberals from "your black friend" and serves as an illumination of the black experience as well as a call to action to actually use your privilege in ways that help black people.
It reminds me of The Hate U Give in some parts, where Passmore talks about being too black for white people and too white for black people. It's also personally challenging to me as I think about how movements like #MeToo and #NeverAgain have effected real change, while we still have black men getting shot in their backyards in California.
11 pages, but thought-provoking for sure.
It reminds me of The Hate U Give in some parts, where Passmore talks about being too black for white people and too white for black people. It's also personally challenging to me as I think about how movements like #MeToo and #NeverAgain have effected real change, while we still have black men getting shot in their backyards in California.
11 pages, but thought-provoking for sure.
Labels: 2018 read harder challenge, comic, on paper
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