Hostile, Hip, The Boondocks always gets extra Scrutiny

Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 04:09PM
TheSpook

The Boondocks" makes black people uncomfortable and white newspaper editors nervous. It is not a comic strip a reader can ignore like "Beetle Bailey" or "Sally Forth." It was born hostile. If it came with a soundtrack, it would alternate between heavy percussion, ragged bass lines and the sound of breaking glass. The characters in "The Boondocks" scowl just like black people in real life. In the five years Aaron McGruder's daily strip has been censored, misunderstood and "hated on," its principal characters -- adolescent suburban transplants Huey and Riley Freeman -- have never smiled. This would be unimaginable for white characters on the same funnies page. [more ] Today's Boondocks is [here ]

Article originally appeared on (http://brownwatch.com/).