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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.
Hard pass on this video. It's too long winded. It literally goes episode-by-episode explaining what has occurred. Which if any of us has watched the show it becomes "oh yeah I remember that episode" type session
If this is about how Aaron Mcgruder has always disliked Black people, I been saying that since Sohh and mafukkas stayed mad. The series stays shytting on Black people and pointing out how ignorant the culture is. McGruder just like Neely Fuller in that they focus only bashing Black people for being ignorant and barely say anything negative about crackas.
That's why white people LOVE the Boondocks cause the show doesn't say anything negative about crackas and is funny to them to see all the stereotypical nikka tropes.
I also pointed out way back then how Dave Chappell had a issue with Black people and his show was half way c00ning with a lot of his segments esp. Tyrone Biggums as a fukking character.
People in this thread need to either explain what was wrong with season three or keep their mouth shut. The guy who made the video is smoking crack, too. A season that had these episodes:
It's a Black President, Huey Freeman
The Red Ball
The Fundraiser
Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy
Pause
A Date with the Booty Warrior
Smoking with Cigarettes
The Story of Lando Freeman
Mr. Medicinal
The Fried Chicken Flu
The Color Ruckus
Was passionless, uncreative, a cash grab, and a huge drop-off from season two according to some of you. I just named damn near the whole season, and the episodes I left out are decent at a minimum.
People in this thread need to either explain what was wrong with season three or keep their mouth shut. The guy who made the video is smoking crack, too. A season that had these episodes:
It's a Black President, Huey Freeman
The Red Ball
The Fundraiser
Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy
Pause
A Date with the Booty Warrior
Smoking with Cigarettes
The Story of Lando Freeman
Mr. Medicinal
The Fried Chicken Flu
The Color Ruckus
Was passionless, uncreative, a cash grab, and a huge drop-off from season two according to some of you. I just named damn near the whole season, and the episodes I left out are decent at a minimum.
Season 3 was def a departure from the tone and style of the earlier episode. Became less overly political and episodes became more pop culture based. Which every show goes through changes the longer it goes on, but like you I don't see how jawn could call it passionless.
I personally enjoyed most of the episodes out of season three. Only thing I could say the previous seasons were better at was having more of the heartfelt episodes like the passion of reverend ruckus or Riley wuz here. The endings of both
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.
Season 3 was def a departure from the tone and style of the earlier episode. Became less overly political and episodes became more pop culture based. Which every show goes through changes the longer it goes on, but like you I don't see how jawn could call it passionless.
I personally enjoyed most of the episodes out of season three. Only thing I could say the previous seasons were better at was having more of the heartfelt episodes like the passion of reverend ruckus or Riley wuz here. The endings of both
I always believed the first season (where those episodes you named come from) was the closest to matching the tone of the comics. By season two, the shift started and the show became more of a sitcom. That's not a bad thing, but the transition between seasons one and two is the most noticeable to me. More episodes aren't about anything political, and some are just character-based. "Home Alone" has no satire or commentary on anything going on. It's just Huey and Riley taking their fights to the extreme, and they're genuinely convinced that Granddad is never coming back like actual kids would. It's one of the best episodes in the series, and it has a really simple story.
To me, season three felt more politically charged and had more commentary. I don't think it would be possible for it not to happen because this is in the wake of Obama getting elected, but it also had episodes similar to season two that were story-based.
I wouldn’t say that The Boondocks is anti black. It’s well written satire written from a black perspective. Comparing KOTH and South Park’s takes on a topic with The Boondocks. Is kinda crazy since you’re comparing 3 white men’s perspectives on said topics. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t listen to what Mike Judge, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker. Have to say but again that’s from a white man’s perspective. But what I’ve noticed as time goes on is that The Boondocks. Is entering the same spaces as The Chappelle Show and early Chris Rock specials like Bring The Pain. Where non blacks and some black people ignores the show’s commentary. To confirm their racist and c00ning views. I mean the fact that some people say shyt like “Ruckus was telling the truth.” Tells you everything you need to know. Some of the people in the comments are brain dead.
Well maybe if the black community didn't have so many issues he could focus more on shytting on cacs. How we supposed to shyt on cacs when we destroy our own shyt. Gotta stop fukking up or own shyt then we can fight the real fight against cacs.
That might be true, but I didn't think The Boondocks was about white people but how black people respond to being near powerless in a white environment too long. The black characters were the focus to get black people to look at each other and the system of white supremacy. I think that's what made Huey and Tom crucial to counter the stereotypical portrayals of black people within the series... and ironically Huey and Tom are black archetypes of the black radical, and the kind of black man successful in the system respectively.
The Real from season one shows how Huey is affected when he's being shadowed. A Date with the Health Inspector is another S1 episode showing how Tom is affected. The Hunger Strike and Tom, Sarah and Usher are season two episodes that explore similar themes... white people were not the focus of the show.
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I wouldn’t say that The Boondocks is anti black. It’s well written satire written from a black perspective. Comparing KOTH and South Park’s takes on a topic with The Boondocks. Is kinda crazy since you’re comparing 3 white men’s perspectives on said topics. That’s not to say that you shouldn’t listen to what Mike Judge, Matt Stone, and Trey Parker. Have to say but again that’s from a white man’s perspective. But what I’ve noticed as time goes on is that The Boondocks. Is entering the same spaces as The Chappelle Show and early Chris Rock specials like Bring The Pain. Where non blacks and some black people ignores the show’s commentary. To confirm their racist and c00ning views. I mean the fact that some people say shyt like “Ruckus was telling the truth.” Tells you everything you need to know.
Some of the people in the comments are brain dead.
