I do love The Boondocks, very much. (Am I shallow because I love Riley best? I just want to pick him up and hug him, even though he would slap me down.) But it's a great strip - I've yet to see the show - and it was, I think, the first thing that EVER drove home for me that racism is still alive. I used to think that racism wasn't real, and this was because I applied it only to blacks vs. whites. In the town I lived in, there were relatively few black people... that I ever met ... and that meant, to me, that there was no racisms, because Travis and Mike got along well enough with me. But then I got to thinking that we used the same sorts of words to the Mexicans, and ... Aaron Magruder was the first person who ever told me about that.
I love Aaron Magruder and the stories he tells because even though he is obviously so furious that he can barely summon the calmness to set pen to paper, his fury is because of his love and his conviction that we can know better; that we do know better.
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I do love The Boondocks, very much. (Am I shallow because I love Riley best? I just want to pick him up and hug him, even though he would slap me down.) But it's a great strip - I've yet to see the show - and it was, I think, the first thing that EVER drove home for me that racism is still alive. I used to think that racism wasn't real, and this was because I applied it only to blacks vs. whites. In the town I lived in, there were relatively few black people... that I ever met ... and that meant, to me, that there was no racisms, because Travis and Mike got along well enough with me. But then I got to thinking that we used the same sorts of words to the Mexicans, and ... Aaron Magruder was the first person who ever told me about that.
I love Aaron Magruder and the stories he tells because even though he is obviously so furious that he can barely summon the calmness to set pen to paper, his fury is because of his love and his conviction that we can know better; that we do know better.
And you are another one of those people.
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