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THE BOONDOCKS – “A Right to Be Hostile “
The comic strip, The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder, introduces African Americans, referred to as “Blacks” in the comic strip, into the media in a different light from what is typically portrayed on television and newspapers. I use to be an advent comic strip reader and agree with the artist that there is not much diversity in the cartoon characters. Characters were predominately White and jokes were politically correct. Reading The Boondocks exposed me to issues of Black identity, intentional racism, and Black culture. Through the artist’s sarcasm and unpolitically correct humor, McGruder forced me to think about multicultural issues and hypocrisy toward African Americans that I thought were no longer present in today’s society but unfortunately is still alive in a subtle form.
I admired McGruder’s portrayal of being black. Through the eyes of the main character, Huey Freeman, blacks were presented as intelligent, beautiful and revolutionary. Anyone, such as the Jazmine who is half Black and half White with an “Afro-denial,” who denied blackness, was sobered by Huey’s blunt but respectful “wake-up” call. One strip showed Huey scoring higher than the Whit
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My first reaction to the strip was shock and I was a bit offended. After I removed my politically correct and color-blind mentality, I began to catch myself grinning at The Boondocks’ sarcasm towards overt racism. I agree with McGruder that society still has a long way to go in dealing with multicultural issues, especially towards African Americans. I respect The Boondocks initiative to bring African American issues out in the open through an unconventional medium without fearing censorship. The Boondocks is still holding strong in The Chicago Tribunes while several newspapers have already censored the strip. I pray that readers do not laugh off these issues as they read The Boondocks. I hope this raw insight to Black identity, intentional racism and Black culture will wake up those who may be overt or covert oppressors. I can now understand why African Americans believe they have the “right to be hostile.”
The Boondocks also gave me a glimpse at Black culture. The image of a Black family comprised of Huey and his brother Riley living with their grandfather. The Black characters’ communication style was open and direct, which may come across as hostile and angr
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