[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.

[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.

[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.

[Riverman94610]

Don't be so hard on Mc Gruder!He is not afraid to take on some sacred cows in the black community and,while he is undoubtedly leftist in his political leanings,he seems to give equal time to miscreants of his own color as well as"whitey"and does it with a scathing sense of humor.

[freeangel]

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.