The boondocks

I got into the then comic strip, “the boondocks” created by Aaron McGruder in my sophomore year of high school. I had all of the comic strip collections treasury. My grandmother would even cut out the strip for me that she saw in the newspaper and put it in an album every time she saw it. Thank you, grandma, Irene! The boondocks centers around three black kids – Huey, Riley, and friend Cesar and what it means to be black in America as seen through their eyes. Huey, is the main character, named after civil rights activist Huey P Newton.

Huey is an old soul. The cartoon strip, which later became a successful cartoon on the Cartoon Network in its adult swim lineup wasn’t is extremely topical to the happenings going on in the world. Huey is a militant black activist, who is very socially conscious. His little brother Riley is a wannabe rapper who is into the gangster lifestyle. Huey has a best friend named Cesar, who, in writing this I was able to recall his name. Cesar does graffiti and he and Huey do commentary on society. They Huey and Riley, live with their granddad, who being older, has a different view of racism and being black in America than the boys.

They have a friend named Jasmine, who is biracial her father is black and her mother white. Both parents work as civil rights attorneys. Aaron McGruder, the creator of the boondocks designed the cartoon in the style of anime. Why did he do this? The reason is quite simple in that Aaron McGruder had always been a fan of anime, not just the style, but also the genre as a whole.

Indeed, the show and the comic strip have experienced their share of controversies, for example, with the comic strip due to the subject matter, the strip would be pulled, then put back, then pulled again, over and over and over again. The boondocks has managed to remain intelligent and relevant. This cartoon has also become a staple in the hip-hop culture Ziege, and an American pop culture as well.

The boondocks is an accurate social commentary through the eyes of three black kids meaning Huey, Caesar, and Riley. But particularly Huey because he is the oldest soul and he has the and he is the militant social commentary of the group who wants justice in equality for the black community.

A cartoon like this is instrumental, in beginning of further dialogue, about racism, how to end it, and race relations in general. Of course, the shell received a mature rating, the program on cartoon. I am referring to because things wore obviously considered for older audiences. In the boondocks, no topic is sacred everything gets to go around in the boondocks universe.

I personally love the boondocks. Quite frankly, it’s one of the coolest comic strips that I have ever seen in my entire life. Aaron McGruder did a bang up job with this comic strip. No question about it. In the cartoon the late comic. Legend, John Witherspoon voiced granddad’s voice. The boondocks is a comic strip and cartoon with a point of view about politics and pop culture from the black perspective. This comic strip has the power to bring about social change in this country and in the world. Mr. McGruder is a genius to make Huey into a militant black activist, that way the message of social change through saving humor, and that’s something that boondocks is packed full of, and I love it. And if I may say so, this comic strip when I first read it, and now that I think of it was absolutely hands-down, refreshing and enlightening.