Al Sharpton criticizes 'Boondocks'

ajc.com ^ | John K.

[jsk10]

NEW YORK — The Rev. Al Sharpton has asked for an apology from Cartoon Network for an episode of edgy animated series "The Boondocks" that shows the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. saying the n-word.

"Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures," Sharpton, a civil-rights activist and former Democratic presidential candidate, said in a statement Tuesday.

[jsk10]

No comment from Tawana Brawley

[Brett66]

I saw this on the cartoon network. It showed some wonderful sounding quote from MLK and then it showed "whateva nigga" on the screen.

I was LMAO!

[D.P.Roberts]

Al, baby, you need to go on a diet. All that pork is causing your stupid factor to peak.

[Dallas59]

*YAWN*

[D.P.Roberts]

I wonder if Al considers Tawana a "black historical figure?"

[Txsleuth]

WHOA...tap the breaks there AL!!!

What about this "first amendment" that you guys are always dragging out..whenever anyone complains about Harry Belafonte, or Cindy Sheehan, or Danny Glover??

[Ma3lst0rm]

Al would make a great Boondocks character.

[Txsleuth]

Whoops...breaks=brakes sorry!

[DennisR]

Note to Al: I really do not care what you think. You are a professional racist, so why should I care?

[Wasanother]

Free speech and if you don't like it change the channel like the Libs keep throwing at us.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Boondocks rocks

[Shortstop7]

Al probably IS a Boondocks character....

[Tim Long]

So he has a problem with MLK saying the "n-word," but not with him denying the essential doctrines of the Christian faith, as he did in his lifetime. Huh.

[mudblood]

I saw this episode, it wasn't offensive at all. MLK was watching television, and there was some rap music on with people acting like idiots and using the N-word here and there. He was disgusted at what his world had become in his absense. The storyline was that he didn't die, that he was in a coma for all these years, and then came back and saw this. It was nearly "touching". I'm a huge MLK supporter incidentally, and not a detractor.

[ozzymandus]

Boondocks is racist hate-whitey crap. Al should love it. maybe he just wants a cut.

[Tim Long]

I recently heard Sean Hannity refer to a fast Sharpton went on, in which he still ate things like cake. Does anyone know what he's talking about? I've never heard about this.

[RegulatorCountry]

"I recently heard Sean Hannity refer to a fast Sharpton went on, in which he still ate things like cake."

I can envision that.

[yoe]

Al Sharpton is one of the great burdens the Democrats have to carry................he just thinks he is the head ******and he ain't!

[Spirochete]

I recently heard Sean Hannity refer to a fast Sharpton went on, in which he still ate things like cake.

Chocolate cake, no doubt.

[Better Dead Than Red]

Sharpton got arrested for illegally protesting at the bombing range that was on that Puerto Rican island and while in jail he went on a "fast."

[Ronin]

You mean he isn't already?

[Gordongekko909]

It is God's will that Sharpton eat chocolate cake.

[Westlander]

That's Reverend Al please.

[Gordongekko909]

You ever dip your chocolate cake in milk? You dip it in milk, and it's a delicious dessert.

[SAJ]

Gee, a professional racist with no obvious means of support criticises another professional racist who gets paid for promulgating racism in a ''cartoon'' strip?

As loatesome as 'Boondocks' is, Dullton surpasses by a factor of at least 100.

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Frig A.S.

[SAJ]

Er,''loathesome''.

Apols for the typo.

[Tx Angel]

I agree. The show sucks.

[kenth]

Vieques, wasn't it? He fasted, but only during the day and evidently gorged at night. Quite a few leftists have taken this tactic and seem to think they are truly suffering for their causes, one even compared himself to Ghandi. Fast while the cameras are on...

[Luke Skyfreeper]

You're aware this article is at least hosted (if not written) by a bunch of white supremacists, right?

[pcottraux]

I hate the Boondocks.

[Dad yer funny]

, hey!!! , perhaps a future Boondocks

,... could have a scene where Steven Pagones kicks Sharpie Sharptoon's ass

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Another attempt to repress free speech, this time from the left. Sharpton must have noticed that his brand of street-hustler/preacher was one of the incidental targets of this Boondocks episode.

[JMack]

Isn't that an official KKK site? Hardly a credible source.

I don't know Martin Luther King, but I will say this. He knew he was going to die, and he kept on doing what he believed in. Find me a liberal today which you could say the same about.

I have often wondered what prompted his statements in the mountiantop speech the night before he died. Whatever it was, he knew something was coming down, and he didn't flinch, he just went about what he was doing. The man may or may not have held different beliefs from me on some social issues, I don't know, but I think even if he had been a Howard Dean Liberal, you'd still have to afford the man a large measure of respect for standing by his beliefs, no matter the cost.

[hiredhand]

Yup... But consider the company that MK kept. Jesse Jackson?! Nothing has changed.

[Looper]

Go play with white hood and keep your KKK garbage off this site.

[hiredhand]

I don't respect people who "stand on beliefs" that are wrong. No matter how solidly they stand by those beliefs; even to the death. NAMBLA is one such organization. They're steadfast in their beliefs, as well as being aggressive to their opponents. But I won't afford them any respect for the attribute of steadfastness, when their entire underlying premise is evil.

Militant homosexuals are similar. What's more is that they know they'll probably die from their actions as well! The suicide, murder, and domestic violence rates among the homosexual community is extremely high. So they continue pressing their agenda knowing they're going to die. They even applaud each other ceremoniously when they finally die from the hazards of their lifestyle. I ask, why respect the steadfastness of fools?

Personally, I have very littl knowlege of King, or what he did, or tried to do in this world. I know that he's "touted" as being a great civil rights pioneer for black people. But my opinion is (and it very well could be wrong!) is that the photo where Jesse Jackson is standing to his right on the balcony speaks volumes to all of us.

There are other sources for the same information on that racist website. It's not uncommon knowlege.

I might "respect" something in regards to it's sheer, unmitigated power in this world, but not on principle alone.

[hiredhand]

Go stuff yourself.

[jiggyboy]

"edgy" = hateful and racist as it gets, but black-hating-white so it's ok

[Shade2]

A link to racist??????

[Shade2]

Should be "racist website".

[Shade2]

90% of the show involves ridiculing behavior of blacks.

[hiredhand]

Unfortunatly, yes. Google will return many others that aren't though. The info is all the same pretty much identical no matter where you get it from though.

[jiggyboy]

Well I gotta concede that the TV show could be better than the comic strip. I looked through a month of archives at the tvland web site and only found one reference to "our racist justice system" and one ad hominem insult to both GWB and Cheney, which are indeed juvenile left-wing stuff not racism.

The King Kong strips simply puzzled me though.

[Constitution Day]

"Cartoon Network must apologize and also commit to pulling episodes that desecrate black historic figures"

Interesting word choice, implying that they are holy.

[TC Rider]

No comment from Rev Al when the Boondocks characters were saying that Ronald Reagan was the devil, 9/11 was faked, etc.

Sorry your ass got gored rev.

[SlowBoat407]

Doesn't he mean "denigrate"?

[longtermmemmory]

interesting read.

Though I think the fact the "luther" part of the name was never made legal is not really going to go anywhere.

The cpusa connections were quite interesting.
The plagerism was not surprising. But it does explain the refusal of coretta to allow any use of his papers for analysis.

[Constitution Day]

Yes, I believe so.