"My vision would turn your world upside-down, tear asunder your illusions and send the sanctuary of your own ignorance crashing down around you. Ask yourself... are you really ready to see that vision?"
My favourite statement from The Boondocks the cartoon/ anime/ comic series created by Aaron McGruder. A writer, artist, and public speaker, McGruder has expressed his views on the world, polotics and people in general in many ways. his most shockingly explicit being the boondocks.
Huey Freeman acts as the shows narrator. He is 10 years old yet overly intelegent for his age. he was named after Huey P. Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panther Party.Huey (in my opinion) represents -or is supposed to- what black people should act and think like. He is a persistant reader, avid follower of the news. He even writes his own colloums and at one point his own newspaper! He is also a highly skilled martial artist which is probably to aid his intellegence and knowlege in philosophy, he also has a large amount of weapons in his possetion including a Katana, bo-staff electric glove (deemed the black power fist) and an array of bb-gun (some of which he shares with riley others are kept secret for when the need to battle arises). he refuses to use slang (exept for abundent use of the 'N word' (although less than those around him) and also refueses to listen to most hip-hop and never gangster rap. The image above was chossen so that people who have never read the comics would know Huey's mind set, it is in the same style as Che Guevara Support posters (a photograph of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda). It is also a possiblity that the name Huey (in my opinion of this case) means humane, humble, or humanitarian.
My favourite statement from The Boondocks the cartoon/ anime/ comic series created by Aaron McGruder. A writer, artist, and public speaker, McGruder has expressed his views on the world, polotics and people in general in many ways. his most shockingly explicit being the boondocks.
The Boondocks is a story of two black brothers living in white suberbian america with their grandad- Robert Freeman.
Huey Freeman acts as the shows narrator. He is 10 years old yet overly intelegent for his age. he was named after Huey P. Newton, one of the founders of the Black Panther Party.Huey (in my opinion) represents -or is supposed to- what black people should act and think like. He is a persistant reader, avid follower of the news. He even writes his own colloums and at one point his own newspaper! He is also a highly skilled martial artist which is probably to aid his intellegence and knowlege in philosophy, he also has a large amount of weapons in his possetion including a Katana, bo-staff electric glove (deemed the black power fist) and an array of bb-gun (some of which he shares with riley others are kept secret for when the need to battle arises). he refuses to use slang (exept for abundent use of the 'N word' (although less than those around him) and also refueses to listen to most hip-hop and never gangster rap. The image above was chossen so that people who have never read the comics would know Huey's mind set, it is in the same style as Che Guevara Support posters (a photograph of Che Guevara taken by Alberto Korda). It is also a possiblity that the name Huey (in my opinion of this case) means humane, humble, or humanitarian.WARNING: The following clip contains jokes and comments of a racial and derogatory manor, which some may find offensive
Riley Freeman is the exact polar oposite to Huey. He is the "gansta", "straight hood". He represents the mindset of the common black male in America e.g wanting to "be down with a crew" the ideology that a chain shows a high social status as well as the ideology that being hated also means high social status. Riley is always opsosing brother Huey and constanly disses him in as many derogatry ways as he knows e.g "n***a you gay" or "you a lil' b***h!". It is impossible for Riley to not talk in slang (as is the case with a mass of African Americans) and has noteably said: "I know about white people. Like when [white people] talk they say the whooole woorrd likeee thisss." He doesnt read at all and seems almost uneducated unless its street, weapon or music subjects. he shares a bb-gun collection with huey,although huey only uses them to supress major threts he couldnt handle otherwise riley relies on themmuch like gang members. His fasination with guns is also hightened when he meets Ed and Rummy two white ex soldiers who think they're black -in a weird sense, they know they are rich and white but have a "ghetto black" mentality including speak [Ed explaining what it was like in Iraq:
"What's it like?! What am I supposed to say to that? It was cool, there was b***hes. Okay they was b***hes but a lot of them had, ya know, they was cova'ed up in them curtains and stuff they be wearin'. But, I digress. It was WAR. It was war, basically. War, you know what that's like? Motherfuckas be like shooting (imitating a machine gun) Gah-geh-ga-ga-ge-gu-ga-gow! Bombs blowin' up. An' ya know, the s**t scared me. It scared the s**t outta me. Matter o' fact, I s**t on myself over a dozen times. And ran out of toilet paper after the second time."
Rileys name choice could be from the term riled-up or whilley or more simply wild whith would be the complete oposite of his brother.
Quick facts: ~Every episode of the Boondocks has a fight in it excpt for one,
~Even though racially controvercial it is one of very few non japanese anime to
be accepted in japan
~Althogh made by and for black people the majority of complaints and controversy
against it has come from black people
~It is the black show that has negatives about martin luther king and is also the
only one to inpersonate him and make him swear
WARNING: The following clip contains jokes and comments of a racial and derogatory manor, which some may find offensive
WARNING: The following clip contains jokes and comments of a racial and derogatory manor, which some may find offensive
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