Roger Graham believes Brandan’s cartoon depicting the rich dropping coronavirus bombs on informal settlements “reveals ignorance and prejudice” (“Coronavirus bombs cartoon in bad taste”, April 1). Ignorance because “we live in an era of cheap air travel”, while the accusation of prejudice is unsupported.
Graham believes “most of the world has access to cheap flying and not only the rich fly”. Clearly he lives in a different world to me. For those living in the massed shacks of the cartoon, access to one meal a day is a constant struggle. In their world anyone who can afford R12,000 for a flight to Europe is rich beyond comprehension...
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