This is an opinion cartoon.
Dennis Pillion’s AL.com series, “Ancient Alabama,” examines the natural forces that made Alabama what it is over the past 500 million years, and how those forces still shape the state today.
In the fantastic Ancient Alabama series, we’re learning how strange creatures like woolly mammoths, ground sloths and neanderthals once roamed this territory. Today, with Trumpublicans in charge of our deep red state, it feels like they still rule it.
Guns have more rights than women and minorities.
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Is Alabama forever stuck in the Cold-as-Ice Age?
In Alabama Political Reporter’s opinion piece, There is no sanctity of life in Alabama, Josh Moon writes:
“This is not a column about abortion. It is a column about life. I’m writing it because I read a tweet from the governor of this state that said, “In Alabama, we stand for life. Always will. Say a prayer for life today.”
“Kay Ivey has been governor of our state for more than four years now. Plenty of time to alter the path of the state, to send us down a better, more life-valuing path. You know, since we “stand for life” and all.
“Here’s the reality: Alabama is third nationally in infant mortality. We have the highest child poverty rate in America. We have the second highest maternal mortality rate, with our mothers dying at a rate more than twice the national average. We rank fifth in gun deaths per capita. We rank second in COVID deaths per capita. And we rank ninth in prison deaths.
“Last year, more Alabamians died than were born. First time that’s ever happened.
“So what lives are we standing for, exactly?” Read the whole column here
(In memory of the late great Dwane Powell, who made a career out of drawing North Carolina lawmakers as woolly mammoths.)
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JD Crowe is the cartoonist for Alabama Media Group and AL.com. He won the RFK Human Rights Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2020. In 2018, he was awarded the Rex Babin Memorial Award for local and state cartoons by the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Follow JD on Facebook, Twitter @Crowejam and Instagram @JDCrowepix.
