On January 6, the Colorado Springs Branch of the NAACP was attacked by a bomber.  No one was injured but still, the news was largely left untouched because the next day the attack on Charlie Hebdo’s magazine occurred.

The first event echos the struggles faced by those in the civil rights movement, yet the second is the one that has gained all of the media following.  While the general idea of the protests is solid, no one should be killed for what they publish, that doesn’t make the content itself worth praising.  The cartoons themselves are flat and uninspired, especially in a country that has done so much to legalize its discrimination.

The cartoons may not justify murder, but that doesn’t suddenly make it ok  to make them your facebook profile picture.  They still carry the weight of discrimination and prejudice, and if we need examples of rights being infringed upon by attackers, we don’t need to leave the country to do so.