This was an interesting cartoon I found, and I thought it was relevant to what's going on in the world today, such as the cases of Michael Brown and Eric Garner. The cartoon itself has an interesting method because justice is not supposed to discriminate among people, yet we still have police officers who can commit crimes against African American men without getting any sort of consequence for their actions. I think the choice of using two young black children in the cartoon is interesting because children are impressionable and they'll be thinking that they are not worth as much as white people, that the justice system is corrupted by ideas of racism and prejudice. I think this was an effective way to do this, because justice is supposed to be "blind", with ideals of being innocent until proven guilty, and the idea that all people are equal under the law. I think it was using this particular icon was a good idea, because it demonstrates the principles the justice system is supposed to abide by. But one of the children is saying "but she can still make out colors" which is an effective and simple way to show some of the things that are wrong with the justice system today, that it discriminates. And by simply saying that it can make out colors, the cartoonist is suggesting that this isn't limited to just African Americans, it can apply to people of other cultures, basically anyone who isn't white. The cartoon appeals primarily to pathos and logos. It appeals to pathos through the use of children in the cartoon and in light of the recent events, with the trend "Black Lives Matter", in order to show that there is a major problem in our society with the treatment of people of color. It also appeals to logos by making the argument that if justice is supposed to be blind, why it seems that African Americans are not being treated equally to whites, and police officers who kill young children and unarmed teenagers should be walking free.
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