2006-09-18
John McWhorter vs. The Boondocks
"The Boondocks" is a comic cum cartoon with black charactors, representing the Nadir view of America: white-on-black racism is a rampant obsticle to black folks, and this leaves many blacks with no options other than criminal behavior. Here Reformed Leftist hero John McWhorter critiques this nonsense.
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You obviously have never read nor watched the Boondocks. You have no idea what you're talking about.
McGruder makes more fun of Blacks who cry racism all the time than he does whites.
His political view is similar to mine, but that has little to do with the tv show and is more evident in the comic strip.
McWhorter doesn't know what he is talking about either, and you must have gotten your information from him. The blind leading the blind...
Riley doesn't have dreadlocks. He has cornrows. That McWhorter doesn't know the difference (though I think you do, Paul) is telling enough.
I don't recall McGruder talking about Condi Rice in the tv show, but he definitely did in the comic strip. Huey and his (dreadlocked) friend Michael Caesar (who, to the dismay of many, wasn't in the first season of the tv show) wondered if she would be nicer if she had a man, so they tried to fix her up with Larry Elder. Hilarious stuff...
McGruder makes as much fun of Huey's pre-adolescent revolutionary rhetoric as he does Riley's pre-pubescent gangsterisms. The boys don't really understand the suburban white folks they live around, and what inner city Chicago youngsters who moved to the suburbs would? The show is honest about race, and like Chappelle's Show, allows Blacks and whites alike to laugh at each other and themselves.
Paul, you're smarter than McWhorter, and I dare say, you may have a better understanding of black folks. Don't allow him to serve as your authority on a show that you would probably love for its intelligent and fearless humor if not for its politics. It is, after all, a cartoon.
The strips are all old as this point, but they are still just as funny.
http://www.gocomics.com/boondocks/
Anxiously awaiting season two...
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