GagBase Logo Explore

But Officer He Seemed Kinda Racist Satirical Comic

This is a single-panel hand-drawn cartoon illustration. It depicts a Black man wearing a blue beanie holding a blood-stained knife in one hand and pointing off-screen with the other, speaking to a UK police officer (identifiable by the checkered band on his police hat, who is shown from the back). The man says in a speech bubble: "BUT OFFICER, HE SEEMED KINDA RACIST." The dark, satirical joke hinges on the absurdity of the character trying to use a claim that the person he apparently stabbed was racist as a justification for committing violent assault, mocking excessive or performative responses to perceived bigotry.
Make

Dialogue

BUT OFFICER, HE SEEMED KINDA RACIST.

Overview

This is a single-panel hand-drawn cartoon illustration. It depicts a Black man wearing a blue beanie holding a blood-stained knife in one hand and pointing off-screen with the other, speaking to a UK police officer (identifiable by the checkered band on his police hat, who is shown from the back). The man says in a speech bubble: "BUT OFFICER, HE SEEMED KINDA RACIST." The dark, satirical joke hinges on the absurdity of the character trying to use a claim that the person he apparently stabbed was racist as a justification for committing violent assault, mocking excessive or performative responses to perceived bigotry.

Origin notes

The comic is originally created by artist madebyjimbob, whose signature watermark appears vertically along the right edge of the image. This specific version was distributed via an RSS feed from 9Gag, where it was posted under the original title "Just not ok". It circulates online as a controversial satirical meme commenting on discourse around racism and accountability for violent retaliation.

Similar memes

A digital illustration featuring bold text at the top reading 'STOP RACISM!!!' followed by 'It's okay to be...' in smaller font. Below this text, five stick figures are shown holding hands in a line. Each figure is labeled with a descriptor: from left to right, 'asian', 'black', 'arab', 'normal', and 'american'. The 'asian' figure has a yellow face, a rice hat, and holds a spoon. The 'black' figure has dark skin and curly hair. The 'arab' figure wears a keffiyeh and carries a drum. The 'normal' figure is a plain white stick figure with no additional features. The 'american' figure has a body patterned like the US flag and holds a McDonald's paper bag. All figures have smiling expressions.

Stop Racism: It's Okay to Be...

A digital illustration featur…

This is a single-panel absurdist shock meme. It opens with the common bad-faith deflection people use against accusations of racism: the top text quotes the claim "I'M NOT RACIST. I HAVE A BLACK FRIEND", then labels the image below as "THE BLACK FRIEND:". The image shows a Black man posing for the camera while wearing a full Nazi German officer uniform with Nazi insignia on the cap, and a see-no-evil monkey emoji censoring the swastika on his armband, while he holds a rifle. The joke is an ironic twist: the black friend the speaker cites to prove they are not racist is himself a follower of Nazism, an ideology rooted in extreme anti-Black racism, which completely undermines the speaker's dishonest claim.

Clear on his ideologies

This is a single-panel absurd…

This is a three-panel sequential comic meme that uses escalating crowd reactions to satirize common societal frustrations. 1. First panel: A man in a blue shirt points and shouts "thief!" at a man in green; the adjacent panel shows a small group of people chasing and confronting the accused thief. 2. Second panel: The same blue-shirted man points and shouts "murderer!" at a blonde man; the adjacent panel shows a slightly larger group attacking the accused murderer. 3. Third panel: The man points and shouts "landlord!" at a man in yellow; the final panel depicts a massive, chaotic mob of dozens of people (including individuals on scooters) chasing the accused landlord, showing a far larger, more unified reaction than to the thief or murderer. The joke relies on hyperbole and dark humor: it exaggerates the relatable frustration with landlords (such as high rent, unfair rental practices) as a universal grievance that incites a bigger, more passionate reaction than serious crimes like theft or murder, highlighting how widespread this societal frustration is.

Landlord: The Ultimate Unifying Enemy Satirical Meme

This is a three-panel sequent…

A black-and-white meme featuring two simple stick figures engaged in conversation. The left stick figure has a speech bubble with horizontally blacked-out text, suggesting censored or sensitive content, and is gesturing with both hands as if explaining something. The right stick figure, with a distinct black eye, responds with a speech bubble reading 'dude i don't speak epsteinian,' using wordplay on 'Epstein' (referencing Jeffrey Epstein) to mock the need to engage with the censored content.

This is so true..... lol

A black-and-white meme featur…

A meme image featuring an older Black man with a concerned and confused expression, wearing a white tank top, standing in front of a wooden wall and a blue chair. The text overlay at the top reads: 'Minority groups looking at each other after the Minneapolis incident.' The image is used to comment on the dynamics between minority groups following the 2020 Minneapolis incident involving George Floyd, which sparked widespread protests and discussions about racial justice.

Minnesota

A meme image featuring an old…

This is a two-panel satirical comic. The first panel shows a blonde young woman wearing a pizza delivery cap sitting on a public bus, smiling with relief while saying 'AHHHH FINALLY SAFE IN AMERICA FROM WAR TORN UKRAINE', with a blurry male figure in the background behind her. The second panel reveals the man, a Black person in a red hoodie, holding a large kitchen knife and grinning menacingly, while the woman remains oblivious to the threat behind her. The meme uses dark humor to satirize the popular narrative that the United States is an entirely safe haven, contrasting that idea with the high rate of violent crime in American public spaces.

Never forget

This is a two-panel satirical…

A meme featuring a photograph of a young man holding a water bottle with a smirking expression. The image has bold white text overlaid at the top and bottom, creating a pun: 'IF THE KKK IS RACIST THEN A 5K MUST BE SUPER RACIST'. This plays on the phonetic similarity between 'KKK' (Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist organization) and '5K' (a 5-kilometer race). The man in the image appears to be in a casual indoor setting, possibly at home. A 'made with mematic' watermark is visible in the bottom-left corner, indicating the meme creation tool used.

If KKK is racist then 5K must be super racist

A meme featuring a photograph…

This two-panel meme uses popular internet archetype characters to satirize class dynamics and the power of collective action. **Top Panel**: A single, bearded working-class-style character (a variant of the 'Chad' meme archetype) declares *'We Want Justice'*. Opposite him, a wealthy, top-hat-clad character (a distorted 'soyjak' meme figure) leans over two stacks of green cash, wheezing with exaggerated laughter, and replies *'LMAO, nice joke buddy'*. This panel illustrates how the wealthy elite dismiss individual pleas for justice as trivial and humorous. **Bottom Panel**: The same working-class character is now part of an angry, unified mob holding pitchforks and a lit torch, repeating *'We Want Justice'*. The wealthy character now has wide, terrified eyes and a shocked expression, showing that when marginalized people organize collectively, the elite can no longer ignore or mock their demands. The meme's humor comes from the stark contrast between the elite's reaction to an individual versus a group, highlighting the shift in power when people unite for a common cause.

When the Mob Demands Justice (The Rich Stop Laughing)

This two-panel meme uses popu…

The image shows a Black man with dreadlocks, black glasses, and a white collared shirt standing outdoors in front of a large street mural of a prominent Black historical figure (inferred to be Malcolm X). The man holds a handwritten cardboard sign that reads, 'Slavery was standard practice throughout human history until it was ended by white people.' The image serves as a provocative historical commentary pushing back against common contemporary narratives that frame slavery as a uniquely Western/white transgression, by highlighting that slavery was a near-universal practice across all global cultures for thousands of years before white-majority nations led the global movement to formally abolish the institution.

The truth will let you breathe

The image shows a Black man w…

This is a two-panel comedic pun meme set during a routine traffic stop. In the first panel, a police officer standing outside a stopped car asks the driver for "Papers", referring to required legal identification and vehicle documentation. The driver replies with "Scissors". In the second panel, the officer reacts with an amused smile and says "Oh sh*t, you're free to go sir." The joke relies on the rules of the classic game Rock-Paper-Scissors, where scissors beats paper: the driver frames the officer's request for papers as choosing the "paper" option in the game, so his choice of scissors means he wins the interaction and avoids any tickets or further police scrutiny.

Traffic Stop Rock Paper Scissors Pun Meme

This is a two-panel comedic p…

A black-and-white stick figure meme depicting two characters in conversation. The left character, with a round head, large eyes, and an open mouth (suggesting speech), gestures with their right hand. Their speech bubble contains horizontal blacked-out/redacted lines, indicating censored text. The right character, similarly styled with a round head and large eyes, stands still with a neutral-to-skeptical expression. Their speech bubble reads: 'dude i don't speak epsteinian'. The humor hinges on the pun 'Epsteinian'—a playful coinage referencing Jeffrey Epstein—to joke about incomprehension of secretive or redacted information, framing it as an unrecognizable 'language'.

Dude I Don't Speak Epsteinian Meme

A black-and-white stick figur…

This is a classic reaction meme using a well-known press photo template. An older man in a business suit leans in to whisper into the ear of a younger man with a goatee and mustache, who wears a suit and has a visibly distressed, alarmed, worried expression. The text overlaid on the top of the image states the content of the whispered bad news: that unredacted police body camera footage has been leaked. The joke relies on common public understanding that unredacted police bodycam leaks usually contain damning, publicly damaging evidence of law enforcement misconduct, meaning the man receiving the news, implied to be an official tied to law enforcement or government, will face severe negative fallout from the leak.

Sir, The Unredacted Police Bodycams Leaked

This is a classic reaction me…