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

[Lucky_Lefty]

now y’all are turning on McGruder

 

[Jaguar93]

Too bad we’ll never get another adult black animated show like The Boondocks. Netflix’s Good Times tried and failed horribly.

 

[LeaveMyHairLineAlone]

That was the point of the show. Huey was the one who took a step back and pointed that shyt out. It wasn't c00nery for c00nery sake.

Critical thinking is some hoe shyt according to some...
Real nikkas run to Vlad n talk shyt smh

McGruder is a hoe ass nikka. Carl Johnson (co-creator/Thugnificent) broke the ice about the whole situation earlier this year with Vlad. Basically, it ended because they fell out with each other and it started when Johnson got the green light from Adult Swim and Sony to create Black Dynamite while he was also working on Boondocks. Johnson felt like Mcgruder was doubting whether he could do production for both and that eventually led to Carl noticing Aaron switching up on him and starting arguments over little shyt. Carl came to the conclusion that Aaron wanted to keep him under his wing and didn’t want him to shine on his own shyt. Between them falling out and pressure from the network and deadlines, Aaron said fukk it and quit the show while season 3 was only half way done with production.

After season 3, Adult Swim and Sony begged them to patch things up. Carl reached out to Aaron and asked him to come back to the show. Aaron said NO and they haven’t spoken since. This was like 13 years ago.

 

[ViShawn]

Too bad we’ll never get another adult black animated show like The Boondocks. Netflix’s Good Times tried and failed horribly.

You had Seth McFarlane as a fukking executive producer

 

[jilla82]

im in the red for saying what Aaron said in the OP

we like to ignore the effect the losers of the community have on us

 

[Rell84shots]

We've been watching cacs act like fools and mass shooters, the difference is that they're not seen as a monolith like we are. What people like Mcgruder need to remember is that our people were lynched wearing their sunday best, meaning it doesn't matter what we do or how we look we're still not human to those monsters.

 

[SheWantTheD]

can this nikka just make season 5 already?

He wasn’t even a part of the last season or two and them shyts was mid

 

[Jaguar93]

You had Seth McFarlane as a fukking executive producer

Crazy

 

[SheWantTheD]

im in the red for saying what Aaron said in the OP

we like to ignore the effect the losers of the community have on us

What difference does it make?

America is not going to give black Americans reparations.. they can’t even afford to if we calculate that shyt correctly.

Racist mf’s gonna be racist regardless. They love to see us as athletes and entertainers but at the end of the day you still a nikka.

And why the fukk would I care about people who paint an entire people under one monolith because of the actions of a few.

 

[Belize King]

We've always been at the bottom of the economic totem pole here. And I'd hope that you're studious enough to understand that these other groups surpassing us, was created by the authority and power here----->not because of a lack of organization and education by us...

You can't say that it doesn't matter if they hate us when we can list countless examples of US "doing the simple shyt to build community" and having multi-generational roadblocks that are almost entirely unique to just being black in America...

There are always things we could do better as a community but we don't have the keys to the doors of wealth, success, or authority. So blaming us for not having more of those positions is, in a sense, anti-black and shows an ignorance of the historical record of the black experience on this land...

Judging us by the worst examples among us is anti-black, do you judge them by their worst examples?

And I appreciate this dialogue, please understand I'm not coming at you from a place of disregard or disrespect!

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.

 

[Rekkapryde]

fukk cacs. how about not acting like damn buffoons and the fool in the media cause it's lame period. Police our own and shyt on those taking the check to act like jackasses from the cacs who are putting it on display for the world to see? How about that? Shame these c00ns and attention whores within our OWN community.

 

[mson]

What difference does it make?

America is not going to give black Americans reparations.. they can’t even afford to if we calculate that shyt correctly.

Racist mf’s gonna be racist regardless. They love to see us as athletes and entertainers but at the end of the day you still a nikka.

And why the fukk would I care about people who paint an entire people under one monolith because of the actions of a few.

Don't they find money for Israel every year?

 

[NYC Rebel]

I refuse to allow my life to be dictated by the white gaze Aaron obviously is consumed by

 

[NYC Rebel]

Don't they find money for Israel every year?

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.

 

[Space Cowboy]

I mean, that should’ve been obvious.


That entire series was a commentary on our community from start to finish. You couldn’t feel the disappointment oozing through the screen?


Not to mention choice moments, like when he basically predicted how folks would act when the Popeyes chicken sandwich debuted

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.