Political Cartoon Racial Discrimination

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The political cartoon depicts the racial discrimination that occurs within Airport checkins. For instance, the political cartoon illustrates three different classes in airport check ins; first class, economy class, and muslim class. Both the first class and the economy class appear to be experiencing no difficulties such as “random” security checks. However, the artist illustrates a line up of security dogs, “bomb squad”, military, and other security organizations along the muslim class check in line. The contrast between the first two classes and muslim class depicts the racial discrimination that muslims experience at airport security. Moreover, it illustrates the bigotry that exists in airports against muslims. Furthermore, this political

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