The Boondocks is On: Pryor's Comedic Legacy Lives On

Five episodes into it, it already started. It actually started after the first episode: uppity Negroes nationwide downplayed the important intelligence and comedic genius that is Aaron McGruder’s animated series, The Boondocks (Sunday, 11pm Cartoon Network) -- all because of one word, NIGGA.
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What disturbs me most about situations like this is that a small group of black people feels that they have a right to police the entertainment of others.

I’m tired of educated and financially well off black people assuming leadership roles in our assumed collective identity every time a black entertainer says or does something that they don’t like.

It happened to Martin Lawrence when African-Americans protested depiction of black women in his hit show “Martin” (Remember Shanay-Nay – Martin’s super ghetto female neighbor and the comedians alter-ego), it happened to Cedric the Entertainer when he was accused of “cooning” on his short lived Fox television series, and now it’s happening to Brother Aaron.

What we are dealing with, with McGruder’s comic strip turned cartoon series, is more than simple ghetto philosophy or nigga-ism. It is the most poignant thought provoking and accurate depiction of Black People ever to grace the small screen.

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