You cannot make a comedy show without making fun of someone.
Homer Simpson is dumb and ugly. They call him everything from ugly ape to caveman.
Peter Griffin is fat and dumb.
South Park is all Fukk u jew this n that. The guys who make it are probably jewish.
Yeah because in comparison to uncle Ruckus and all the other Black negative characters, those white characters ain't remotely negative you dumb ass sambo.
Aaron McGruder even drew the negative Black characters in a extreme overblown way that he doesn't do with white characters.
Because he didn't want to make the crackas who paid him made.
it doesn’t need to be overblown dumbass. because gin rummy and ed wuncler iii kidnapping oprah, terrorizing corner store owners and getting away with it as an example of how white privilege works
every white character is used as a device to critique and satire white americans from different angles. no character on the boondocks is filler.
they explore this in several different ways in different episodes on the show but your retarded ass couldn’t catch on.
i bet you chew jolly ranchers once you take them out the wrapper
it doesn’t need to be overblown dumbass. because gin rummy and ed wuncler iii kidnapping oprah, terrorizing corner store owners and getting away with it as an example of how white privilege works
every white character is used as a device to critique and satire white americans from different angles. no character on the boondocks is filler.
they explore this in several different ways in different episodes on the show but your retarded ass couldn’t catch on.
i bet you chew jolly ranchers once you take them out the wrapper
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The Boondocks is about a black family known as the Freemans living a new life in the suburbs, a remote, thinly settled rural area. The title is a metaphor for the black experience in a white post-civil rights America. The Boondocks continues the themes of racial alienation in novels like Invisible Man and Native Son.
The experience of blackness satirized on The Boondocks is not analogous to the experience of whiteness satirized on South Park, King of the Hill or The Simpsons, so there is not a way to make all things equal to compare The Boondocks to the other three shows to say the other three shows do satire better. The differences of the writers' experiences are clear in the content of the shows: The Boondocks satirizes Black America, the other three shows largely satirize America. Black America being a microcosm within America is referenced by the title, The Boondocks.
By satirizing Black America, black culture was addressed through the vehicle of tropes and stereotypes.
Gangstalicious' character did not predict gay, his entire character arc was about performative heteronormative masculinity to maintain the marketability of his image for an audience that does not accept homosexuality in hip-hop as the norm, that mentality is equally shared between white-owned record label executives, the overwhelmingly white audience of hip-hop and black culture. Masculinity in hip-hop has always been overwhelmingly associated with black heteronormative aesthetics, that's nothing new. What was different about Gangstalicious' character arc was when he was outed and how the series left it up to the audiences of hip-hop and The Boondocks to make the decision. Those two episodes were jumping-off points for real world discussions.
Gangstalicious got shot by his lover on stage at a show because Gangstalicious was cheating on him and that was spun by the media to boost Gangstalicious' street cred during an album cycle. The irony and absurdity of his predicament paints a false narrative out of control.
It did not have to be funny because although Gangstalicious is hardly a sympathetic character the two episodes show him to be a product of music industry and media manipulation. Gangstalicious can't keep it real in hip-hop because it would hurt his image and the pockets of the white people whom invested in and profit from his career. Gangstalicious is suffering from double consciousness or more appropriately triple consciousness as a gay black man.
Gay rappers just aren't profitable for white corporations invested in hip-hop right now. On the surface it's homophobia in hip-hop, a proxy for homophobia in the black community. Satire is not always funny.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. episode was to use King's popular legacy to critique of how far black people did not live up to the principles fought for during the civil rights movement. It was a critique of black popular culture taking its eye off the prize. King's popular legacy is a product of a white narrative that purposely does not mention his radical turn.
The Boondocks is not just the physical location of the suburbs where the Freemans reside, it's a state of mind to show how deeply enmeshed racial alienation is in the black experience and how complicit Black Americans are in perpetuating the conditioning.
The show does not have a negative view of Black Americans, the early series is a catch-22: although the Freemans moved to the suburbs, they are still black people in a white-dominated setting and I think the overuse of using 'nikka' is a mantra to remind the characters who they are. I think Wingmen is an example of that. The Freemans can't forget where they come from because they are always reminding each other.
"white people didnt like boondocks" when it was on.... adult swim which is massively popular with whites?
do you just not get out much? white people LOVE to quote uncle ruckus. shyt go to any reddit thread that mentions the boondocks and you'll prolly get treated to a reply thread quoting his 'dont trust those' song or the 'itis' episode or a 'booty warrior' reference. aaron himself said he didnt want it to become the 'n-word show'
i think they like it because they think it gives them the agency to use that word
"white people didnt like boondocks" when it was on.... adult swim which is massively popular with whites?
do you just not get out much? white people LOVE to quote uncle ruckus. shyt go to any reddit thread that mentions the boondocks and you'll prolly get treated to a reply thread quoting his 'dont trust those' song or the 'itis' episode or a 'booty warrior' reference. aaron himself said he didnt want it to become the 'n-word show'
i think they like it because they think it gives them the agency to use that word
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the disdain the clueless have for us suburban brehs 
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About to rewatch S1-3 after lifting
