Aaron McGruder - "White America has been watching us act like fools..."

[murksiderock]

Honestly, I believe our civil rights is done. We had our time in the 60’s and we will never assemble like that again. Now, do we need to assemble? That’s another story.

Talking on message boards, twitter, and pod casts will get us nowhere. True change comes from policy. Our 13% do not assemble enough to make policy changes. We don’t donate to groups that had our interests at heart.

BLM was the greatest post civil rights movement and could have really sparked generational change, but them hoes hoed the movement and then added the alphabet community. It literally could have led to criminal justice reform and it could have ended qualified immunity. It did accomplish some great changes in different municipalities but it could have gone much further.

If we were really about that life, all black people. All 50 million of us could move to the South and take over Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Make those states ours and create our own policy for our own state to benefit our own people.

Outside of that, white people don’t care, we don’t have influence, and the browns passed us up. All you can control is your family and help your little community wherever you live.

I have an autistic daughter at an all black school who isn’t getting what the county says she is supposed to get. It is up to me and the parents in our school and district to hold them accountable. I am doing the work to get what is allocated for us. Change can happen when people gather.

Our 50s and 60s Civil Rights movements, while it did inspire some institutional change, was rewarded with more intense redlining, flooding black neighborhoods with drugs, mass incarceration if our civil rights leaders, all of which funneled into the Crack Era and War On Drugs...

Unless and until we get the same level of support that browns, gays, and other minority groups have gotten, from the white, ruling authority here, the kind of macro change that people speak of here isn't possible...

We simply don't have the population or the resources to effect that degree of change without deep pocketed authority fully and transparently supporting us. So in a hypothetical of us doing exactly what you say, it wouldn't be enough...

I got news for you about the South, too. White people love it down here too, and the social and economic authority in these southern states is still white. Every single one of them. Millions and millions more black people could move to these states and it wouldn't matter if we don't have the partnership from the ruling class...

BLM was a wonderful idea that was undercut by the coalition of various groups, people, and politicians who misled the public on what it was for. It was never going to be much more than what it was without help from the authoritative infrastructure...

Mississippi might very well be the most racist state in The Union, which isn't an easy task as all 50 are engineered and function with institutional racism to black people. Every single one, so to be THE most racist state wouldn't be an easy hump to get over no matter how many black people move there. It's already the blackest state in the country by percentage (37%); how black does it need to get?

Georgia is a mirage...

Where I do agree with you, is that local activism is how you start, and if you can gather and build local movements, this is what eventually leads to larger transformations. It's why I advocate for North Carolina as quite possibly the best state for black people, and Raleigh and Charlotte as two of the best cities for us...

 

[mson]

Because that’s federal money. Reparations are a local county and state issue. I really wish those of you concerned about it actually read up on it.

That's still up in the air from everything that I've read. There's been proposals that have called for reparations from counties, states, and the U.S. Government.

 

[2 Up 2 Down]

That was the exact damn thing I was thinking about. They love the seeing black folks act ignorant and like sex fiends

 

[NYC Rebel]

That's still up in the air from everything that I've read. There's been proposals that have called for reparations from counties, states, and the U.S. Government.

It’s not a federal issue. It’s not a “US government “whatever that means issue. Reparations have centered around local county and state. Those are the facts. It seems to me that the people who voice the most about reparations know the least about it.

 

[Redwood]

I feel like you dont understand me but thats cool.

I do. @Scustin Bieburr pointed out that Obama held himself to a high standard by dressing, acting, and speaking well but still he was being shytted on by the dominant society.

 

[LeaveMyHairLineAlone]

It’s not a federal issue. It’s not a “US government “whatever that means issue. Reparations have centered around local county and state. Those are the facts. It seems to me that the people who voice the most about reparations know the least about it.

 

[NYC Rebel]

Exactly. You guys don’t know shyt about the reparations movements around the country. They are led locally, county, and on the state level. Not federal. I don’t know what you mean by “US Government.” Do you mean federal?

 

[Jaguar93]

To expound on this.

I've been a Boondocks fan since I discovered the comics in the 2000's.

This is an early series of comics. One of the first he did in syndication. The Boondocks is just a social commentary of what it means to be black in America - both the good and the bad. A black man should be allowed the freedom to articulate the bad aspects of the culture and his own criticisms but he always uses Huey and Caesar as a linchpin for common sense for the absolute fukkery the other black characters are involved in.

To think someone could call the man that made this a c00n. This made a really big impression on me when I was 15 or 16 when I first read it. People said I had "good hair" and I didn't know what that meant. The Boondocks helped me explore parts of myself and my blackness I couldn't get anywhere else.

This isn't c00nery. It's a critique on the black need of acceptance by white people going even the length to burn the hair with a hot comb all because Jasmine's white momma don't know how to handle her natural curls.

To limit Aaron McGruder's worldview down to simply "he's a c00n" is to know very little about his actual work. Is the commentary biting? Yeah. But it's supposed to be. Sometimes criticism is needed to make people grow. The fact it's coming from a black man doesn't make him a c00n.

I could be saying all of this and be absolutely biased because he's my hero and has been since 2000 or so.

Maybe I'm wrong. It's my perspective as an OG Boondocks comics fan.

I don’t fully agree with what McGruder said in op. But he did a great job with the commentary on the show and strip. The strip you posted is a better take on good hair. Than the season 4 episode on the subject.

 

[mson]

It’s not a federal issue. It’s not a “US government “whatever that means issue. Reparations have centered around local county and state. Those are the facts. It seems to me that the people who voice the most about reparations know the least about it.

Yes, Federal. And It's not just a local issue. But I'm not going to go back and forth with you.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

To expound on this.

I've been a Boondocks fan since I discovered the comics in the 2000's.

This is an early series of comics. One of the first he did in syndication. The Boondocks is just a social commentary of what it means to be black in America - both the good and the bad. A black man should be allowed the freedom to articulate the bad aspects of the culture and his own criticisms but he always uses Huey and Caesar as a linchpin for common sense for the absolute fukkery the other black characters are involved in.

To think someone could call the man that made this a c00n. This made a really big impression on me when I was 15 or 16 when I first read it. People said I had "good hair" and I didn't know what that meant. The Boondocks helped me explore parts of myself and my blackness I couldn't get anywhere else.

This isn't c00nery. It's a critique on the black need of acceptance by white people going even the length to burn the hair with a hot comb all because Jasmine's white momma don't know how to handle her natural curls.

To limit Aaron McGruder's worldview down to simply "he's a c00n" is to know very little about his actual work. Is the commentary biting? Yeah. But it's supposed to be. Sometimes criticism is needed to make people grow. The fact it's coming from a black man doesn't make him a c00n.

I could be saying all of this and be absolutely biased because he's my hero and has been since 2000 or so.

Maybe I'm wrong. It's my perspective as an OG Boondocks comics fan.

That's real.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

What I’m seeing in this thread so far; “the world sees us as one big nikka, so there’s no point in collectively bettering ourselves.” Hopefully as I read on this narrative will change.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

What I’m seeing in this thread so far; “the world sees us as one big nikka, so there’s no point in collectively bettering ourselves.” Hopefully as I read on this narrative will change.

You say this, as you mock and partake in those very images you claim to despise

With all due respect, at your absolute core, you a fukk nikka, and spineless at that.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

You say this, as you mock and partake in those very images you claim to despise

Prove it (spoiler alert everyone: he can’t).

 

[RickyDiBiase]

Prove it (spoiler alert everyone: he can’t).

That was a character assessment you fukking sissy , not an invitation to a debate.eat my shyt and die slow, fukkin oreo.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

That was a character assessment you fukking sissy , not an invitation to a debate.eat my shyt and die slow, fukkin oreo.

Projection because a rightly raised well adjusted man such as myself, makes you feel insecure and inferior about your own failures as a man.

I only pity people like you because the only thing you can do is lash out rather than doing any introspection.