Its a Bird

Christian Cooper illustrates a real-life experience of racism in his comic It’s a Bird. This scene is above and, I am breaking down how it has a loss of inclusiveness. In the first section of the page, you see a middle-aged woman shouting at a younger man and, she states “I am going to call the police because you are threatening me.” Judging by the body language of both characters, the man did not threaten the woman. I infer she is steering up trouble because of his ethnicity and we call this an act of racism. You can also see in the first section the man closes his eyes and pictures other people of color who have been killed in police brutality. He is imagining this because the woman mentioned police and the chances are the woman will have white privilege and he might be in the same boat. In the second and third scene, the man ignores her because the woman intends to get him riled up and wants him to make a mistake so he would get in trouble with the law. Once again, this is another act of racism because the woman hates him for being black and her only interests are for him to get seriously injured or time in prison. Racism and discrimination are an enigma no one utterly understands what the cause is. But we are slowly working on fixing it and, I hope no one ever must experience this again but, the chances are they will.