"K Chronicles" cartoonist Keith Knight has launched a project to change the way people — or at least our computer algorithm overlords — perceive the term "black mug shot."
“‘Black Mug Shots’ came from my frustration with the proliferation of mugshots, especially of people of color, online,” Knight told Boston.com. “This perpetuation of every Black person that you see on the internet is in a mugshot is harmful.”
So in a cartoon last month, he invited Black readers to post photos of themselves with their coffee mugs, and non-Black readers to post photos of themselves with black mugs, using the hashtag #blackmugshot.
I'm a bit late to the party, but I've got a couple of black mugs in the cupboard... so why not?
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