Just wondering
“A private nigga moment embarasses you, a public nigga moment shames the whole race.”
This is more of a question than an actual post I guess. I was just wondering how people are feeling the Boondocks cartoon. The first episode I saw didn’t really move me, but as the episodes progress I like it more and more. The Boondocks was the only reason I bothered to read the paper. I mean when you can get your news off the net I figure I might as well keep my change for parking meters. Not only did I love the Boondocks, but I loved the fact that it seemed to scare mainstream America so much. I was talking to a friend in San Diego while it was on one night and she said they don’t have it in their paper and she has to buy the LA Times just to read it. The thing I realized after a few episodes was that instead of an external kind of view the cartoon is going internal. The strip might talk about whatever stupid thing Bush did this week. The cartoon tends to focus on the stupid things we do, watch and are involved in. As a matter of fact it makes me want to test the chair theory. Theory being that if you throw a chair in a crowd full of black people it’ll start a riot…even if no one gets hit. Anyway let me know what ya’ll think, in the mean time I have to remember to bring a folding chair to my next all-staff meeting.
Last night’s episode was a trip. Thug luvin’. Too funny.
Comment by Nikki — December 13, 2005 @ 1:28 am
I’ve only seen the first episode and I wasnt really feeling it but I hear what you’re saying
we dont get it in the paper either so I just check it out at the ucomics site.
Comment by jdid — December 13, 2005 @ 11:34 am
I’ve been reading The Boondocks FOREVA! I absolutely LOVE the cartoon! It was the ONE thing I looked forward to reading everyday in the newspaper! When I heard that the cartoon would be on every Sunday at 11pm… I made sure that I would be available to watch it every Sunday. I was crackin’ up Sunday night. Although… ummm… I had a different definition of thug luvin… *scratchin head*
Throwing a chair… will always cause a riot. Hell… a snake in the middle of a crowd will start a riot. All you gotta do is yell “gun” in the middle of a crowd and it will start a riot. WTF?
Comment by Miss A. — December 13, 2005 @ 6:28 pm
I’ve always been a fan of the Boondocks. I have been reading the comic strip in the paper for as long as I can remember (here in Chicago, its in the Chicago Tribune). Now it’s like crack…making me wait for a hit every Sunday night to see what other craziness is poppin off on the newest episode!!
Comment by dragonflypurity — December 13, 2005 @ 8:47 pm
I’m enjoying the cartoon myself. But I’ve been an AS fan almost from the jump.
Comment by Breez — December 14, 2005 @ 7:21 pm
I dig Regina King in almost everything she has ever done but her voice just ain’t working for Huey and Riley, escpically for Huey..I don’t undrstand why they couldn’t have just gotten a little boy to do the voice becuase i think the cartoon is as well written-if not a little more heady then the strip- but something about Regina’s voice just doesn’t fit for me. Now the rest of the voices are perfece John Witherspoon as the Grand Pa and using Samuel Jackson and Charlie Murphy as the white thugs was classic..
my two cents
Comment by nas dawud — December 15, 2005 @ 1:09 pm
i tried the chair thing. it would have worked if someone didn’t point upward at it. nobody bothered to look to see what was headed their way, they just started scrambling. i realized later my chair theory was checkmated by the already proven “niggaz run first and ask questions later when someone points into the distance and starts screaming” theory.
Comment by nikki — December 16, 2005 @ 3:22 am
I’ve been reading The Boondocks since Aaron started it at the Diamondback when we were all Terps. I love it. Both versions. Can’t wait to see Ceasar in the Cartoon!
Comment by Reese — December 17, 2005 @ 12:35 am
hahaha. the chair theory and the one of nikki is something else. i wonder whether it d work with the white folks too. actually it s quite human when it hink about it. the same thing when you stand on a marketplace and stare at the peak of the church every body will stop and stare too. hahaha. but maybe the chair theory would work more crass with blacks than whites but in the end, i am not the one to talk about it at all i guess.
now i am curious as to who and hwat the The Boondocks are…gotta check it out.
one luv
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Comment by piranhainlove — December 18, 2005 @ 12:36 am