Too Petty To Talk About
January 27th, 2024 Barry Posted in Racism & Racists | No Comments »
This cartoon is drawn by R. E. Ryan!
TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON
This cartoon has six panels. All of them show different scenes, but all of them focus on the same character – a thirtyish, square-jawed guy with short light brown hair and a seemingly permanent scowl on his face. Let’s call him SCOW (short for scowl).
PANEL 1
Scow is sitting and typing at a computer in his apartment. He’s wearing an undershirt. In the background we can see city buildings and the sun high in a blue sky.
A word balloon shows us what Scow is typing.
SCOW: Why are you talking about racism in music? There are more important things!
PANEL 2
Scow is now sitting up in bed (he has a nice bedroom, with dark wood furniture and framed art on the wall), wearing red jammies and intently typing on his phone.
SCOW: Time spent talking about race could be spent talking about something important!
PANEL 3
Scow is apparently at Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner – there’s a big turkey on the table. He’s wearing an argyle sweater vest and talking intently to the unfortunate 12-ish looking girl sitting next to him. (His mouth is full, and little bits of food are coming out.) The girl looks annoyed and is rolling her eyes.
SCOW: Who cares about race and casting? There are more crucial things to talk about!
PANEL 4
Scow is now back in his apartment – it looks like a living room – wearing VR googles and (presumably) talking to someone in VR. He’s waving his arms as he speaks.
SCOW: Why do they always make a white character Black when they remake movies? They’re obsessed with race!
PANEL 5
This is the same scene as panel 1 – Scow is sitting in his apartment typing on his computer. The window in the background now shows stars and a moon. Scow is leaning his head heavily on one hand, presumably because he’s exhausted but well into the “I can’t go to bed, somebody is wrong on the internet” zone.
SCOW: Don’t we have more important things to focus on?
PANEL 6
Scow and a friend are sitting on a park bench hanging out. Scow is talking to the friend; the friend is reading his book and seemingly paying no attention to Scow. (I mean, I’m assuming that the guy is Scow’s friend, because that’s what I said when I wrote the script, but nothing in the panel establishes that, maybe this is just some random stranger that Scow sat down next to and started ranting at, in which case, wince.)
SCOW: And these ridiculous people spend all their time talking about the same unimportant things!
SCOW: Over and over!
SCOW: They never stop!
