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Jun 10, 2021

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, I'm Symphony Thompson From 2005 to 2010, Aaron Magruder turned his nationally syndicated commentary strip into a critically acclaimed animated television series depicting all aspects of black culture with

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s such as the Freeman families and Dubois and Uncle Ruckus, The Boondocks is without a doubt. on the mount rushmore of black satires challenged only by chappelle show atlanta and in living color in an interview with charlie rose mcgruder explains the

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is a racial, social and political satire about a handful of African-American children transported to the suburbs who have to deal with their environment and their treatment of

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other is presented as an explanation of American racial dynamics, both interracial and interracial.

It's really refreshing that Magruder acknowledges his work in that way because the interracial commentary is the reason black people gravitate to the show in overwhelming numbers. The genius of McGruder. lies in the fact that he creates

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s that are the pinnacle of different parts of the black American psyche; For example, the R Kelly episode wonderfully explores the idea of authentic blackness through the minority model Tom Dubois, a local prosecutor charged with convicting the singer of sexually assaulting an underage girl, Tom, is the typical token. well spoken who is not like the others because he went to a prestigious pwi, moved to the suburbs and married a white woman for reference.

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He just imagines a cartoonish straight Don Lemon as the episode goes on, Kelly's defense attorney. who's white repeatedly invokes the race card insinuating the trial as a political witch hunt to imprison an influential black man the lawyer's argument was that r kelly may have urinated on a 14 year old girl, but at least he didn't flee the suburbs and he forgot where it came from, after all the victim is black and has a naacp image award nomination to his name, what else does tom have to do to prove his authenticity besides having a white wife and a mixed race son?

Magruder did something subtle in the way she wrote to Tom. In a sense, his entire personality can be explained through his name. Tom shares his last name with Web Dubois, whose most notable intellectual contribution is the idea of gifted talent for children. The top 10 percent of black Americans should be a model for the wealthy lower class. as an antidote to his backwardness using that frame tom is the perfect representative of the talented tenth he is a financially secure princeton graduate in district attorney totally accepted by white society but what good is that external praise if your spirit is weak it is no coincidence that a the man who represents a modern uncle tom is called tom he is the quintessential black suburbanite that every black person knows mcgruder shows this in a mockumentary episode he is the black president huey freeman when tom's wife sarah leaves obsess over obama because he's smart, tall, charming, strong and fit like your husband, this isn't about you honey, that scene is punctuated by the interviewer's comments about the couple's peculiar dynamic when he says it's always obvious when a couple hasn't had normal marital relations for some time and it only gets worse for tom at the end of the episode it is revealed that sarah slept with obama while she was in dc for the inauguration sarah is even more subtle than tom in many ways she is a symbol of the reality that well-intentioned white liberals are not the allies they present themselves to be, and Magruder uses that reality to personify America's irrational fear of miscegenation through the Dubois family instinct.

Yes, I think I want to have sex, Tom, what has happened to you, the same thing that is about to happen to you, the brilliant thing about this scene is Mercury's ability to clearly show that even white women pathologically fetishize Black masculinity, Sarah is undaunted by the fact that her Ivy League-educated husband has suddenly become a vulgar thug, instead she relishes the opportunity to live out a taboo sexual fantasy, so thoroughly as are Magruder's characters. She was not immune to criticism. Daily News columnist Mike Holtzman wrote that the racial element of the issue touches on the same thing.

Nerves exposed when comedian Bill Cosby's controversial comments about hip-hop culture and Holt's low expectations are proven right to the point that some viewers think of Riley as just another representation of ignorant young black men acting on screen , they felt without any sense of irony that a suburban The second grader is everything that black people work so hard not to portray in the media and that Magruder contributes to the media representation is inexcusable, he is not a half-brother, the The media has distorted our image to make us look bad, why should you go down? He likes that brother, he's not a half-brother, in fact, conservative pundit Larry Elder resented the show and characters like Riley for being childish, petty and misinformed, but Magruder addressed such criticism in 1999, when The Boondocks was just a comic strip he said that riley is a little boy who has bought into black popular culture and black popular culture is full of images of violence and glorification of crime.

I don't think anyone can really refute that this strip is meant to illustrate how silly it can be. buying something like that and trying to be something you're not, which is why, as brazen as Raleigh is, his morality is never in question. He spends all his time smoking cigarettes trying to escape a friendship with Milton Taishan, a character based on the Letharian Milton Riley wants nothing more than to be a real street kid, but when that life becomes too much, he's willing to give it up because knows that he is not who he really is, Uncle Ruckus is created in the same way as the absurdity of his appearance and The Point of View creates a surreal depiction of one of the darkest aspects of American black psychology in the same way that the Riley's youth and privilege do not match his sensibilities.

The uproar is meant to be with one voice, the idea of the black man subservient at the feet of the white people. Society is not a new concept, but Magruder revolutionizes the character by developing it. The simple fact that Ruckus is an essential recurring character takes him far beyond being just a minstrel show, albeit with an attitude that's equal parts Clayton Bixby and Stephen Fetchit. Ruckus repeatedly refers to Riley. and hughie ace and gorilla chimpanzees unworthy of protection in booty warrior while claiming that beautiful white children are valuable enough to be rescued, in effect, ruckus is the embodiment of the internalized racism that is present to varying degrees in many black people .

It's sad but he actually believes what white people say about him well I have reeve little I go every year my skin seemed to get darker and darker and blacker and then darker it's the opposite of what michael jackson got , perhaps the reason critics like Larry Elder take such an assumption with the show is because the uproar reminds them of themselves in the sense that black conservatives are often caricatured as people who lack the courage to confront United States because of its objectionable racist past, instead preferring to play the role assigned to them in an attempt to be accepted by the oppressor on their terms instead of being fair in the fight for freedom, for that reason it is unexpected That Ruckus's best friend on the show is Hughie and Riley's grandfather, Robert Friedman, the quintessential old-school black father, is disdainful and violent with his grandchildren, blindly supports Obama, and has a public presentation that is the antithesis of who he is in private during the episode "He's a Black President," Mr.

Freeman proudly proclaims that he's voting for Obama because he's going to cut his taxes, only to find out that Obama plans to raise taxes to Grandpa's income level. Grandpa still shows his support for Obama because he is against corporate bailouts, which he discovers is also not true. Grandpa then gives one last reason why he supports Obama, but he gets exposed once again and is going to get the troops out of Afghanistan, right? then, what are we going to do? We all know his reason for supporting Obama is the same as Riley's, who says I'm supporting Obama because he's black to Mr.

Freeman. The way he has perceived you is more important than honoring his instinct. A particular case of this is when he beats up Riley for dating Emil and Tayshan until she sheds a tear of Denzel glory and then graciously accepts Lamilton and his grandmother into his home even though he doesn't want those people in his life or in his house, mr. freeman is basically the lady who shouts Amen, the loudest from the front pew of every church service and curses the waitress at his waffle house the same day because her coffee is too hot and then there's huey for the blacks.

He is the voice of reason in the suburbs. He is the very intelligent protagonist that he is interested in. conscience and truth instead of debate and persuasive rhetoric for white people, he is fred hampton and malcolm x reincarnated for that reason, just like tom huey's name is an homage to the legendary black panther huey p newton on the surface, huey He seems like a radical revolutionary, but he never actually tries to violently overthrow the status quo. His main goal is to provide alternative modes of thought to establish orthodoxy. Huey does this in the white world when his t

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er, Mr.

Uberwicz, asked him to direct the work of school Christmas theater so he could share his vision huey answer my vision would turn your world upside down, tear us apart under your illusions and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance collapsing around you. What he means by that is that he means to tell the truth about Christmas, the fact that it is a pagan Roman holiday enclosed by Christians Huey rebukes the black world with the same passion in a speech after R Kelly's acquittal Yes, the The government conspires to imprison many innocent black men on fallacious charges, but R Kelly is not one of those men.

Even the recurring ancillary characters are powerful critics of American society. The Once-lers are frank commentary on the issues of aristocracy and the inherited health classism ed wansler iii and jen rummy were based on real-life political figures george w bush and donna romsfield w and wonsler's name was a reference to George W Bush's nickname, while Romney is similar to Rumsfeld, the first episode of the series literally has Ed Wansler III begging Riley to shoot him in the chest with a shotgun so he can test out his bulletproof vest and the episode ends with his superior having to say nothing except that in 30 years that guy he will be president of the united states and he will still be an idiot it is hard not to see the connection with then president george w bush or current president donald trump and rapper thugnificent is described as a professional buffoon for not acting with some divine sense, in conclusion , all of the characters in The Boondocks represent some type of archetype and character representation in the black community, whether it's the older black man stuck in his ways or the impressionable young man, Uncle Tom, or the black radical of The Boondocks.

Unapologetically covering it all, regardless of color, Boondocks forces you to take a look at your own perspective when it comes to race relations in America. Stay up to date with the latest