Ethan Kolodny Kolodny 1
Debra Booth
English 1301-375
2 October 2014
Essay 1
The political cartoon, “Anglozona Illegal Tan Block”, was published by St. Luis Post Dispatch on April 28, 2010 by Matson. Because of the plain white background, a centered image of a sunscreen bottle is caught by the eye. The bottle, with the same colors as the Arizona state flag, has a picture of a cactus dressed as the Statue of Liberty, holding a tablet that is inscribed with the words, “Show I.D.”, in one hand, and a flaming torch in the other. The sunscreen is 12,000 SPF, and claims that it, “Protects from Police Harassment.” With the situation at hand in 2010, this cartoon was created, and each element presented on the cartoon is a representation of something during that time.
In 2010 the state of Arizona created a law that gave any police officer the power to determine if a person was an immigrant or a U.S. Citizen. The law was created because of the mass amounts of illegal immigrants taking refugee in the state, hiding out, and trying to live in the United States. The law also required immigrants to carry documents that proved they were not illegals, or else they were considered, “breaking the law”. The law gave officers the right to arrest people, based on their skin tone. The, “Anglozona Sunblock”, cartoon was created in order to show how messed up this law was, and bring it to the public's attention. With an impossible amount of 12,000 SPF, the sunscreen would not let any light get to your skin, therefore not making you dark, at all. Aimed at racially profiling Hispanic people by saying to apply it to their face and body, so no part of them becomes dark, or else you will be considered and immigrant.
The cactus, dressed like the Statue of Liberty, holding the tablet saying, “show I.D.”, is Kolodny 2 resembling the racial profiling that Hispanics received. Is freedom