Posted on 01/27/2004 2:36:52 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV.
Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war.
He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams.
The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face."
In a Sunday broadcast of the "Black Forum" show, McGruder, speaking from Los Angeles, repeated the epithet, arguing that Rice, as one of the administration's "biggest hawks," advised the president on a war that led to the "slaughter of innocent people in Iraq."
Some of the black panelists assembled in the Washington studio winced at the remarks.
Conservative syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams rebuked the cartoonist, whose strip is syndicated in more than 250 newspapers.
"I can't get over the fact you labeled Miss Rice a murderer," he said.
The low-key McGruder, 29, asserted that he has a right to his opinion.
"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.
NAACP chairman Julian Bond, another panelist, wrote it off to "satire," but added, smiling, "I agree with his politics."
Late last year, McGruder made Rice's love life the topic of his comic.
"Maybe if there was a man in the world who Condoleezza truly loved, she wouldn't be so hell-bent to destroy it," one of his "Boondocks" characters speculates in a strip.
The Washington Post pulled the series on Rice, which ran some five days. The Cincinnati Enquirer dropped the strip altogether.
McGruder, who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, claims Rice, also black, asked him to write her into his strip.
"Boondocks," a hip-hop version of Doonesbury, is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.
McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree, has written a best-selling coffee-table collection of his strips called "A Right to be Hostile."
He's reportedly developing with Sony a prime-time animated series based on "Boondocks" for Fox. It's slated for the fall.
Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and author of "Crude Politics."
"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.
And this is what it finally comes down to: circular reasoning.
This guy has a talent for cartooning, I will give him that. But nothing else. However, his claim that he called Condi a "murderer to her face" is something I have trouble believing.
She would have kicked his ass.
Be Seeing You,
Chris
For example, I have a friend who is a physician and a black American. He recently expressed to me, a "white," his apprehension concerning his acceptance and treatment by an audience to which he was to address on the subject of AIDS and its disproportionate impact on impoverished black Americans. This man had worked in the area of AIDS since its "early days" in Africa and continued to work full-time and then part-time in an inner-city community AIDS/STD/drug abuse clinic.
When I inquired as to the nature of his audience and even offered to accompany him, he explained that his audience consisted of members of a civic group of wealthy and influential black women in a Northeastern city.
I could not imagine how such would be a problem until he rubbed his cheek and pointed out that his extremely dark complexion would stand out in sharp contrast to the much lighter skin tones of his audience.
The problem, in short, as he stated it was that he was "too black." He declined my offer to support him my accompanying him.
He later related that his concerns had not been unfounded.
Accordingly, I was not surprised to learn of the present travails of Dr. Rice at the hands of a barbarian "black-activist" cartoonist....
BUMP! The perniciousness of the degrees in 'victimology' just grows every day. This kid indeed IS a victim...but not by 'whitey'.
I find THAT hard to believe.
Perhaps he considers it a best-selling book soleley because HE believes that it's a best-selling book.
wow...I bet U of M demands the same rigorous academic discipline as required for a degree in 'ethno-urbanology'...
Well, all of HIS friends bought a copy, anyway...
An argument that could be much more appropriately applied to radical feminists who are trying to tear down the foundations of our culture.
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