Racist cartoonist, Aaron McGruder, 'The Boondocks', trashes Condi Rice (vanity)

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[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.

[EveningStar]

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[ikka]

A black man making jokes about how blacks prefer cheap 40-ounce malt liquor... how charming!

[doug from upland]

If it were a white cartoonist, the reference to a 40-ouncer would have been attacked as racist. I've never seen his cartoon strip. From what I saw, he isn't funny and the strip pretty much sucks.

[ClintonBeGone]

Go to his website. Look under his marital status. Looks like he's projecting a little, don't you think?

http://www.boondocks.net/main.html

[ClintonBeGone]

Correct link

http://www.boondocks.net/team.html

[Lancey Howard]

No offense or anything, but McGruder draws for urban black Democrats and I don't think it much matters much what "message" he sends them. All he's doing is preaching to the choir.

[moodyskeptic]

I heard Larry's show.

This cartoonist is one scary fellow, elitist, snotty, hateful and racist. He's the type who calls Justice Thomas, Condi and Powell Uncle Toms. He calmly insisted that Colin Powell is a mass murderer, several times in a row.

[Mike-o-Matic]

I wonder what he thought of Ron Brown and his role in the Clinton administration.

[EveningStar]

Do urban blacks really need this negative garbage? I think he also caters to a certain group of white libs too.

[Levante]

That's because McGruder sucks! He obviously ASSumes that all black people are as ignorant as he!

Moron.

[Poohbah]

My message for this guy:

"Learn how to draw, dipstick."

[EveningStar]

Doug, I know you're a frequently listener of, and caller to, Larry's show. In fact, I've heard you. :)

Larry was reading these cartoons on the air (yesterday, I think). Larry feels that the message McGruder communicates is hate. He calls McGruder a hater. I find it hard to disagree with Larry's assessment.

[Chi-townChief]

I understand that Ms. Rice has been attached to former SF 49er Gene Washington - makes you wonder why this boy Aaron McGruder doesn't include Washington in his "comic."

[Aeronaut]

He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Afro-American studies with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis...

[Qwinn]

"...all we need to know is if she prefers white men or black men..."

I suppose it's not possible to believe that she might prefer HONEST men... or intelligent men... or introspective men. Nah. Race is of course the first and foremost criteria on what to appreciate in a mate.

This stuff is so innately and grossly racist it's unbelievable.

Qwinn

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

It's really intelligent to suggest that Condi Rice is a war-mongering thug because she needs to find a boyfriend. And yes, it's racist if a white guy makes a reference to blacks and a 40-ounce bottle of Colt .45 malt liquor.
< /Jesse Jackson interpretation off >

[Lancey Howard]

From what I saw, he isn't funny and the strip pretty much sucks.

Yeah, he came up with a drawing of a perpetually frowning, bitter, cynical, and caustic teenage black kid and that image is used simply to convey an attitude. The cartoonist gets away with a five-panel strip and I have never seen one that is funny. I get the impression the cartoonist is lazy. Occasionally the strips come off as "too clever by half", but they are never insightful or thought-provoking. Heck, if the guy was any good he would at least make me mad. But he's a lightweight and he can't even do that.

Like most people, I suppose, I have my six or seven strips I check out and the rest don't even exist.

Fact is, there are several excellent black cartoonists out there, but McGruder is not one of them. But he is a black cartoonist and that makes him a perfect "affirmative action" hire for many liberal newspapers.

My advice: brush him off like a fly - - he's nobody.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

And he wound up being a racist cartoon "artist". I'm impressed (not).

[Humidston]

>>He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Afro-American studies with a concentration in Social and Cultural Analysis...<<

Summary:
Whites = BAD
Blacks = GOOOOOD!