How Does Kevin Siers Create Stereotypes

A cartoon, drawn by Kevin Siers, represents the real life conflict between police officers and the black lives matter movement. In this cartoon, the artist displays two people, one being a police officer, and one being an African American citizen. In this debate there are strong feelings on both sides for different reasons, a quote from the huffington post, “Instead of feeling protected by police, many African Americans are intimidated and live in daily fear that their children will face abuse, arrest, and death at the hands of police officers who may be acting on implicit biases or institutional policies based on stereotypes and assumptions of black criminality” (Boboltz). Another quote from the African American Defense League, “Attack everything in blue except the mail man” (Tuttle). These two quotes shows there is violence involved and in many cases it’s a few out of many that cause an unwanted stereotypes for a whole group. In this cartoon the artist shows no violence just two figures sitting peacefully
By doing so, the audience has to question their thoughts about the conflict and realize that nothing is being down to stop this. It makes the reader ask themselves is this conflict just an ongoing conversation to many people and what is being done to stop it? There are many different symbols and clues that the artist includes to lead the audience to analyze this piece and realize that this problem is still going on. This cartoon can be interpreted in different ways but Kevin Siers message is that both sides of this conflict are being affected and the stereotype that many people think, is often not true, only a misunderstanding. This dispute between police officers and the black lives matter movement is cultural and social problem with the intended audience of the average day observers in attempt to attract a bigger audience and create a bigger voice to combat this