Blowing the image up takes Rodney King from a blob on a screen to a life size human. It makes the situation more accessible because you can see yourself in him. It forces you to understand

Hope for future generations to care

Metonymy of the suppressive nature of White America

As one "people".

Referring back to the piece about lifting the veil, "lick" allows the passage to be more readable, letting the reader maintain emotional well-being.

Parallels the common phrase made by misogynists "women shouldn't dress provocatively unless they want to get raped"

Terms used to describe animals. Shows how Black bodies were on the same level as animals

The way Alexander describes white men draws the feeling of a dystopia of being controlled. The life Black bodies are living aren't there own.

To me the word "tribe" is not a choice but a necessity. It makes me think of times when survival of the fittest ruled, and the choices were band together or be picked off alone.

Like gender, race is a social construct designed to categorize people

Interesting how someone in a deeply Southern school would write such an accusatory piece and be allowed to publish it knowing his audience...

Systemic abuse from the prison system. Positive feedback loop that pulls Black people down

Key word: Formal. Racism is what united people to form a government sanctioned group, and it remains the backbone of said group.

The first thought that comes to mind when hearing the word immigrant isn't Polish, Russian, or any European/White person. It's POC.

Why don't we know about Northern lynchings?

Reminds me of a blurb in the MIT Press about "DIY citizenship", and how people are taking action (positively and negatively) into political and societal spheres

The police's original job was only surrounded by keeping slaves enslaved. That was there only purpose - not crime, murder, theft, etc.

The government thrived on slavery being supported by laws

Viral video of the cop saying that the driver need not fear as he wasn't black

Returning the power to the story

Thinking about the barbaric, gruesome events that happen(ed) to your lineage is not something that most people can confront

Being biased leads to an emotional, strong telling.

Linking back to being active participants, it conveys the feeling of loss for words, something so horrible it it indescribable.

Reminds me of the Hero's Journey guide. People's lives were reduced to a template of a broad adventure

It's hard to create an unbiased, true retelling because anyone who has ties to slavery or was once a slave will be completely on one side (no shades of grey).

Olden day horror movies?

Slavery is a part of the foundation of America. To claim it isn't a factor of who we are is part of the reason it is so hard to address.

This reminds me of movies like Gladiator or the Hunger Games, where oppressed people were viewed as entertainment. People might still be in that headspace.

White people live in a bubble of oblivion. They don't, and can't, understand what images mean to POC.

And slaves were punished for doing so (chapter one cut-off hand panel)

I often forget that slavery is such a recent event, and the lasting impact it has over people today. An emotional return of Nat Turner's remains to his descendants with reading the emotions in the graphic book together have a impact of longevity.

This picture is in the novel. The written parts of the novel are excerpts from this book.

The baby being thrown to the shark?

The theme of this chapter is the relationship between religion and literacy, and how each results in power

And used slaves as preachers to extend their reach. Turner being one of these preachers was beneficial to his rebellion. His audience extended past his own plantation to the surrounding plantations he visited and preached to.

Due to this and his ability to read, Turner commanded power even as a child. His "divinity" allowed him to lead a rebellion.

Meaning slaves...?

Also why a graphic novel was a smart choice in story retelling. It looked past the minute, missing detail and allowed the connection of emotions and empathy via art

His family was taken away and probably was the basis for his rebellion

This reminds me of writing tutorial book called "On Writing Well" where the author/teacher stressed the importance of being direct and not unnecessarily complicated in one's writing

(Food for thought) -- Why do we have to stop interchangeable usage of words/images from happening if the point coming across is the same? I understand you don't sound educated when you can't fully explain your thoughts, but if it ain't broke...?

I still don't agree with writing and art drifting apart. Each is so tangled in the other that separating them would force each to be meaningless.

I like this poster because it uses the letters to crete art. There are no pictures so the letters themselves are the pictures (another example to the similarities between words and images)

The two lines switch the word "tell" and "show" letting us know the interchangeable meaning between the two and how they are very similar.

Nat Turner uses this method of ruminating on larger ideas by including the text from Turner's life. We don't need to read about the pain of his life when we understand it from pictures.

I've never thought about the ways that comic books work, all the intricacies between how a picture and sentence can play off of one another.

I think that McCloud is being dramatic with the separation of language and pictures. Instead of words looking like an action, they now evoke that action in my mind. Language is ever-evolving. I'm still visualizing what is going on, just in a different way than before.

This scares me and makes me think, ironically, about movies I have seen depicting the worst future for humanity (Wall-e, idiocracy).

Having to qualify why he likes his robot is obviously giving him trouble, and is something that children don't normally have to do.