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Hmmm... I do find it pretty funny, but I do acknowledge that it'd be racist if it mocked a black stereotype. (Unless the mock-ee was Condi Rice, of course.)

That old man in Boondocks is the wisest one and does have some sense. He's protrayed as being at peace with himself whereas that main character is perpetually angry and unhappy. I wonder if this is a subconcious acknowledgement of the truth.

i don't see where it is even funny...is the humor supposed to be that they are mocking the runner for running in shorts in snow: or running with a fancy outfit on: or just plain running to be running?

my first reaction is to be resentful that some paper thinks this is acceptable.

That old man in Boondocks is the wisest one and does have some sense. He's protrayed as being at peace with himself whereas that main character is perpetually angry and unhappy.

Reminds me a bit of the "banned" movie Song of the South. It is banned, allegedly, because it shows a happy slave.

But the slave is happy, not because he is a slave, but because he has his own inner strength. The white parents in that movie are portrayed as shallow people. The scene where the wise, friendly, old slave has to be subservient to the stiff-as-a-board, narrow-minded parents does not come across as portraying a good thing. The children learn a great deal of life lessons from the slave, and are quite distant from their parents.

I have no idea how the critics can see what they see in Song of the South.

In another example of how weird this is, take the mascot of Ole Miss. They want rid of the stereotypical "Colonel Reb" mascot because it supposedly honors the old aging Confederate soldier. But at the same time, it is considered offensive to Native Americans to be portrayed in the same way. It can't be both ways....is it an honor to be on a football helmet? or is it offensive to be on a football helmet? Apparently it IS both.

This political correctness is hard to figure out on your own since it is not internally consistent with itself. Thats why we need the elites to tell us what is politically correct and what is not.

Maybe it's just because he (or more accurately, the character he's likely based on) probably grew up listening to John Lee Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, B.B. King, and Gospel, while the youngsters are all hooked on the endless stream of angry crap from Snoop Dog, P. Whatever His Name is This Week, and Ice T.

If you listen to angry, ignorant music and watch angry and ignorant "music videos", you'll probably be angry and ignorant.

But there's nothing that a good dose of blues guitar can't take the edge off of (IMO).

I have to admit that the old man seems like the intelligence and fairness of the strip characters, but that does not excuse the racism that the Huey character displays.

Huey is a racist, he is anti-white, he is almost an anarchist.

And for Boondocks to still be around, despite it's blatant racism is a disgrace.

There is not one white cartoonist that would still be printing cartoons if that cartoon showed a young Black male walking down the street with his pants half off, listening to a Boom Box, and two white charactes standing there saying, "Black People".

That white cartoonist that did that would be drummed out of town, sued, possibly assaulted in the street, would have Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson stage a protest in front of his house, demand money from him and the cartoonist guild for allowing him to even be a member, and forced to attend sensitivity training.