Little Red Cap Cartoon

This social cartoon displays the confusion between someone who seems innocent and someone who seems threatening. In this cartoon the wolf, who in the story is normally the aggressor has shot little red cap, who in the story is normally seen as the innocent one. The wolf shot her because he claims she looked menacing. This matches the situation when Trayvon Martin was shot because he appeared suspicious to George Zimmerman. Trayvon looked as though he were breaking into a house he had his hood up and thus Zimmerman found him suspect and automatically assumed him to be an aggressor. Zimmerman was declared not guilty because should a person feel unsafe around another individual they are allowed to fire. Trayvon’s case was seen by the public as a racial conflict some claim that is Trayvon were white he would not have been shot. That begs the question if little red cap in the cartoon were another woodland animal instead would she have been shot? Prejudice against certain races is to be expected it could be that the wolf in this image felt threatened by humans as Zimmerman felt threatened by Martin. People all over the United States feel threatened by the image of a big black man in a hoodie. They perceive him as a threat and feel unsafe when in reality he probably feels as unsafe as the wolf. However, this goes to show that the aggressor in any situation can be of any race, age, or ethnicity even though in real life this is not always the case.