The Boondocks - I will remain a soldier until the war is won. RIP John Witherspoon RIP Ed Asner RIP Charlie Murphy

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ZsaZsaBinks said:
One thing I don’t understand is why the Boondocks doesn’t like BET. Yeah it pushes stereotypes, but I don’t understand how that makes it destroy black America. I mean, nobody has to watch it.
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perpetuating stereotypes reinforces their beliefs in society and makes it harder for regular black people to escape the associations with them
 
ZsaZsaBinks said:
I wonder if nigs realize that government policies have ruined black communities more than a TV channel has. Blaming BET for ruining black communities is ridiculous. Should we hate A&E for pushing stereotypes about white working class America?
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It's a joke, dude. The absurdity of the BET board of directors composed entirely of black people sitting around thinking of ways to actively make black culture worse in the most cartoonishly evil ways possible is hilarious. They were like a bunch of Captian Planet villains.
 
Bâtard Consanguine said:
It's a joke, dude. The absurdity of the BET board of directors composed entirely of black people sitting around thinking of ways to actively make black culture worse in the most cartoonishly evil ways possible is hilarious. They were like a bunch of Captian Planet villains.
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And Huey wanted all of them to commit seppuku.
 
ZsaZsaBinks said:
Cindy McPherson is a character I have issues with. It would have been more realistic to make her a male, as gangsta rap is more popular with white males. Females don’t typically like gangsta rap if they are into hip hop. But I feel like McGruder created her because the trope of girls doing everything the boys do is cool to a lot of people (despite girls usually not doing what boys do in real life).
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I saw Cindy McPherson as Riley's foil. Both are impressionable children, which in this case would be urban sensibilities. I'd say that Cindy is sheltered to where she COULD appropriate urban culture without any of the consequences that come with it.

ZsaZsaBinks said:
One thing I don’t understand is why the Boondocks doesn’t like BET. Yeah it pushes stereotypes, but I don’t understand how that makes it destroy black America. I mean, nobody has to watch it.
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I think since BET caters to a wider audience, all those stereotypes are able to be enforced further by its audience and cast.
 
Random Internet Person said:
Season 4, man. Season 4.
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The video was fine until it started fellating McGruder's writing process—portraying it as some carefully crafted, deliberate effort to avoid making Black people the butt of the joke, or as if the show was above parodying popular media. This framing doesn’t really hold up, especially considering Season 3 was filled with exactly that kind of content, including a blatant 24 parody and dated memes like "don't tase me bro".

The way people remember The Boondocks in retrospect often doesn’t match reality. That idealized vision mostly applies to Season 1. Seasons 2, 3, and 4 all share a similar tone and structure. Personally, I love Season 2, but it clearly leaned into a South Park -style format—targeting specific people or events each week without always offering a clear stance on the issues. It also started to lose its grounding, with episodes focusing more on absurd scenarios than on Huey's perspective. Over time, Granddad became the central figure, shifting the show’s focus even further from its original point of view.

It's also important to remember that The Boondocks was always a compromise. McGruder himself acknowledged that changes from the comic strip were ultimately for the better. So it’s not surprising that the show leaned heavily into overt satire. Given that, Season 4's direction wasn’t unexpected. From the reboot footage that has been shown, it looked like it would’ve continued in the same vein—with Uncle Ruckus serving as a Trump allegory. Considering how uncontroversial and safe modern satire has become, it likely would have disappointed fans in the same way current South Park often does.

If there’s a real reason The Boondocks couldn’t be made today, it’s not because of its content—it’s because satire itself has lost its edge for modern audiences. Most adult animated shows today lack the boldness to take a stance, and that reflects a wider apathy in the creative process. The willingness to make a meaningful statement just isn’t there anymore.
 
Chocolate Rain said:
The incentive to make a meaningful statement just isn’t there anymore.
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Fixed but I agree with you otherwise. People should just enjoy the show for what it is. A number of people in this thread just want the reboot to skewer their jigaboos err I mean bugaboos like Nigger Lives Matter. And like you said if it didn’t criticize it in just the right way then there’ll be a lot of asshurt. I think if McGruder et al actually wanted to make this show, we’d have seen it already. Just watch the first, most of the second, and some of the third season and let it end there.
 
The Hardest R said:
Fixed but I agree with you otherwise. People should just enjoy the show for what it is. A number of people in this thread just want the reboot to skewer their jigaboos err I mean bugaboos like Nigger Lives Matter. And like you said if it didn’t criticize it in just the right way then there’ll be a lot of asshurt. I think if McGruder et al actually wanted to make this show, we’d have seen it already. Just watch the first, most of the second, and some of the third season and let it end there.
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Exactly. People often mistake Aaron McGruder for a provocateur like Matt Stone and Trey Parker, but he’s never written The Boondocks for shock value or simply to get a reaction. That’s why many of the comic strip’s bannings came from reactionary Black politicians — not because McGruder was trying to provoke, but because he was expressing his genuine views on contemporary Black culture. The first season of the show carried that same perspective, addressing issues such as celebrity worship (“The Trial of R. Kelly”), homophobia (“The Story of Gangstalicious”), and cultural degradation (“Return of the King”). The show was never meant to be reactionary, at least not in its early form. So the idea that a new version of The Boondocks would immediately include something like a George Floyd joke feels deeply misguided.
 
Random Internet Person said:
You mean like how South Park really took a lot of time to focus on the antics of Randy Marsh?
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In the case of that it was Trey and Matt admitting that they didn't relate to any of the boys anymore and that Randy was way more easier to write for plus back then fans really liked Randy and his episodes were the most well-received before Tegridy Farms happened. With Grandad it was because John Witherspoon became more active in the writing's room plus its John FUCKING Witherspoon you're gonna wanna use him for all he's worth and for better or for worse they did. Glad the reboot got shelved after his passing because it would have not been the same without him.
 
The Last Stand said:
Black people HATE it when you critique their lifestyle, especially from other Black people.

Basically, Tyler Perry went full Karen and threatened to pull his two shows off of Turner if they didn't take action. The controversy is funnier than the episode.
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Tyler Perry is nothing but a cocksucking fag and a closeted drag queen that will continue to pump out mid tier movies centered around stereotypical black people because that's the only thing he's capable of making due to the shit he was doing in the late 90s and 2000s. He is simply unable to move on from that.
 
AnOminous said:
One of the best examples is Uncle Ruckus, who is a nutjob and comically racist, but is still allowed to make a point or be right some of the time.

Also, unlike most leftist "comedy" these days, he remembers to put funny jokes in it.
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The Last Stand said:
Black people HATE it when you critique their lifestyle, especially from other Black people.
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That's what makes the show funny. The community in large loves the show and laughs at it, but they're laughing at themselves and aren't doing anything to change themselves. What sad, but poetic genius.
 
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