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Racist cartoonist, Aaron McGruder, 'The Boondocks', trashes Condi Rice (vanity)
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Posted on 10/18/2003 12:39:01 PM PDT by EveningStar

Aaron McGruder is a creep. He's a black cartoonist whose strip, [i]The Boondocks[/i], is fairly popular.

On his radio show, Larry Elder has played excerpts from a speech McGruder made in front of a group of college students. In this speech, he ripped Colin Powell and Condoleeza Rice for being mass murderers.

Below are links to some panels from an ongoing arc where he takes potshots at Condi Rice (I refuse to post the actual images here):

2003-10-14

2003-10-15

2003-10-16

2003-10-17

2003-10-18

McGruder's website

You can find his other cartoons here.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Philosophy; War on Terror; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: aaronmcgruder; colinpowell; condoleezarice; hate; larryelder; racism; theboondocks
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To: Poohbah

41 posted on 10/18/2003 3:01:09 PM PDT by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: EveningStar
Oh,I am sure I would have many disagreements with the gentleman.I am not arguing that point.
I am sure I would not share many of Robert Redford's political viewpoints but that doesn't make the fact that Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is one brilliant movie!I tend to separate the artist's personal axes he wants to grind from his art.
In Mac Gruder's case,I contend he bashes both white conservatives AND black militant poseurs like Jackson and Sharpton.
I don't have a problem with balance.

42 posted on 10/18/2003 3:04:07 PM PDT by Riverman94610
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To: EveningStar
I heard the show too. He is a player hater. A hater is someone who is jealous of someone's success and prosperity, usually because they've achieved nothing in life themselves. Aside from this guy drinking a vat of haterade, he's a bitter meanspirited person.

What a chode. I hate people who are meaningless trying to make themselves into something important.
43 posted on 10/18/2003 3:11:02 PM PDT by cyborg (Kyk nou, die ding wat jy soek issie hierie sienj)
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To: TC Rider
Hey did you see that too?! One day I was flipping through channels and hit upon book TV, which is a cspan thing I think , and saw this creep.
44 posted on 10/18/2003 3:12:09 PM PDT by cyborg (Kyk nou, die ding wat jy soek issie hierie sienj)
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To: B-Chan
As a former cartoonist myself, I can tell you that you have correctly identified why Aaron McGruder is a lousy cartoonist. It is not because he is a liberal. It is because:

a) His cartoons are not funny.

b) His cartoons are poorly drawn--static figures, easy to do.

(Side note: I really miss the two best--i.e., best combination of being funny and well drawn--cartoon strips of the past 25 years, namely, The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I wish somebody would talk those two guys out of retirement. At the same time, I know how hard it is to keep a cartoon strip up to the standards one has set. The well can run dry.)

45 posted on 10/18/2003 4:03:30 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: Lancey Howard
Fact is, there are several excellent black cartoonists out there, but McGruder is not one of them.

"Curtis" "Jump Start" and "Herb and Jamal" are some of the best written and drawn strips out there. But because they aren't radical cultural critics of the Spike Lee school, they don't get the attention Boring McBooger gets.

Incidentaly, 'toon historians have confirmed that George "Krazy Kat" Herrmann, possibly the greatest cartoonist of all time, had African-American ancestry.

46 posted on 10/18/2003 4:25:38 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist
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To: RightWingAtheist
Yes, Jump Start and Curtis are two strips I read every time I pick up the funnies page. They are funny and well done.
47 posted on 10/18/2003 5:04:14 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: altura
"My main complaint about the strip is that the Dallas News has chosen to run it separately at the bottom of the advice column page where Cathy used to run."

Seems to me that being the replacement for/compared to "Cathy" is punishment enough and well deserved since both play to a very specific, very troubled, audience.

At least "Boondocks" characters look like people, although I'm never sure which on is the girl.

48 posted on 10/18/2003 6:03:12 PM PDT by norton
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To: Charles Henrickson
I love The Far Side too but you are sniffing glue if you think Gary Larsen can draw. The artwork looks like a 4 year old did it. You also left out the greatest strip of all time, Bloom County.
49 posted on 10/18/2003 6:15:32 PM PDT by DragonflyX
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To: DragonflyX
I love The Far Side too but you are sniffing glue if you think Gary Larsen can draw.

The style is intentional, and it works. Very funny. It adds to the humor of the ideas.

50 posted on 10/18/2003 6:17:32 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (A tagline is a terrible thing to waste.)
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To: norton
Seems to me that being the replacement for/compared to "Cathy" is punishment enough and well deserved since both play to a very specific, very troubled, audience.

They should sandwich it vertically between Ziggy and Marmaduke.

51 posted on 10/18/2003 8:35:36 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Give me the Far side any day and Galvin and Hobbs. Wish they would return!!
52 posted on 10/18/2003 8:39:23 PM PDT by Empireoftheatom48 (God bless our troops!! Our President and those who fight against the awful commie, liberal left!!)
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To: TexasCajun
No Cajun, you don't understand.

Aaron F*%#wad McGruder got his BS out of college, and now he's 26.

Condi Rice got her PhD by the time she was 26!

Sadly, there are some black men who live in fear of powerful, assertive black women. McGruder is one of those people. That's what's behind the hate: McGruder always knows that he will be a Second Rater, peddling Second Rate ideas in a manga style that couldn't get him an inbetweener's job in any halfway decent Tokyo anime studio.

What a putz. Of course, the only redeeming factor is that his drawing is superior to Trudeau's, who's originality died back in the Nixon era.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

53 posted on 10/18/2003 9:25:02 PM PDT by section9 (Major Motoko Kusanagi says, "Drop the sushi, clic on my pic, and visit my blog. Or else!")
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To: cyborg
drinking a vat of haterade

Oh.... geezz... laughing out loud here. Haterade, indeed! That explains a lot of things...

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

54 posted on 10/18/2003 11:22:20 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. -- Charles A. Lindbergh)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Side note: I really miss the two best--i.e., best combination of being funny and well drawn--cartoon strips of the past 25 years, namely, The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes. I wish somebody would talk those two guys out of retirement. At the same time, I know how hard it is to keep a cartoon strip up to the standards one has set. The well can run dry.)

Our local paper, the Memphis Commercial-Appeal has announced a return of The Far Side starting the first of next year.

55 posted on 10/19/2003 2:38:41 AM PDT by archy (Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
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To: norton
I guess you're a guy ... guy's don't get Cathy.
56 posted on 10/19/2003 8:05:41 AM PDT by altura
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To: mylife
thought this might interest you
57 posted on 10/19/2003 8:24:38 AM PDT by ozaukeemom
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To: doug from upland
Sucks doesn't even begin to go there. If a white cartoonist tried this S33t week after week, it would probably land him in jail for hate crimes. Of course, when a black racist does it, we must view it as politically correct.
58 posted on 10/19/2003 8:29:30 AM PDT by freeangel (freeangel)
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To: altura
I'm glad it shows,
but my girlfriend loathes Cathy.

Personally, I'm a 9 Chickweed lane fan.

Rose is Rose is cool also.
59 posted on 10/19/2003 11:37:41 PM PDT by norton
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To: BradyLS
Between Ziggy and Family Circus:

The Anti-Oreo!

ContrOreo?
60 posted on 10/19/2003 11:41:45 PM PDT by norton
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