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“With bodacious wit, in just a few panels, each day Aaron serves up—and sends up—life in America through the eyes of two African-American kids who are full of attitude, intelligence, and rebellion. Each time I read the strip, I laugh—and I wonder how long The Boondocks can get away with the things it says. And how on earth can the most truthful thing in the newspaper be the comics?”
—From the foreword by Michael Moore
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WE'VE BEEN WALKING FOR TEN MINUTES AND HAVEN'T PASSED ONE SUBWAY STOP, BALL COURT, CHINESE CARRY-OUT PLACE OR RIB SHACK! Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
Dear Aaron "the professional victim" McGruder,,
By coolguy247365@yahoo.com (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury (Paperback)
You're ignorant. Trust me on this. It's bad enough you have a limousine-liberal like Michael Moore writing the foreword to your book, what's worse is you don't even know your own culture. Take for instance, your leading protagonist Huey who was named after the co-founder of the Black Panthers, Huey P. Newton (p.16). On page 47, little Huey forgot about Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a "holiday" made up by Ron Karenga who was head of the United Slaves Organization (USO). If you know your history you'd know that the USO and the Black Panthers never got along. They were rivals and they had numerous violent confrontations. Why in the world would a character named after Huey Newton celebrate a bogus holiday (Karenga has stated: "People think it's African but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because Black people wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of Bloods would by partying.") authored by a psychopath like Karenga (who tortured Deborah Jones and Gail Davis and was judged schizophrenic)?Not only are you ignorant, you're a hypocrite. You make fun of a white character like Cindy (introduced on page 17) appropriating Black culture on page 50 (and then some), yet you have the audacity to appropriate Asian culture by using anime art! Furthermore, look at the front cover of your book! You have these Black kids dressed up like a bunch of Kung Fu stars. Do you like treating Asians like this? And, don't give me any of that Asians-haven't-complained-to-me stuff. Either way, you stand guilty of the utmost hypocrisy. I'll give you credit: you're comic strips are funny, and very compelling, and I was interested enough to read it to the end - I had a wonderful time highlighting all the misinformation in your book. Sorry, to say it, but your intelligence is as low as the age of young Huey whose leftist, socialist, progressive ideologies blinded you. I'm sure you are secretly hoping that this white supremacist, capitatlistic society turns your book into a bestseller. Good luck on your TV pilot, Cool Guy
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Aaron McGruder & coolguy's comment,
By A Customer
This review is from: A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury (Paperback)
(4 stars=have yet to read it, but as i've read many of his strips i'm assuming the collection is good)first of all, let me say that Aaron McGruder is an amazing comedian...it took me a while to get into the bookdocks, but now when my mom boys the paper, i go stright for the comics, just for that strip. bravo! the next thing i would like to do is respond to "coolguy". the part that really maked me laugh, was when you called michael moore a "limousine-liberal"...mm is hardly one for showing off (if thats what you were implying...correct me if i'm wrong). i mean, have you seen the way he dresses? like an everyday american (which, i believe is on purpose). he is mad fun of horribly. its been said that he doesnt wash, etc. and why dont you note that comics are supposed to be funny...and mcgruder is certainly not a hypocrite. and, excuse me, you live in LA. LA is not exactly "culture rich" so, just go back to your huge LA "Crib" and quit your whining. if you dislike this book so much (sorry, but the truth hurts!) why did you even bother going on amazon and writing a review about it??
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hilarious and O so Truthful!,
By Luv Reading (Pittsburgh, PA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: A Right to Be Hostile: The Boondocks Treasury (Paperback)
This book is enjoyable for the whole family! McGruder has our whole family cracking up from the youngest of us,10 yrs. old, to the oldest- 51 yrs. old, and everyone of us in between. We all need a laugh once in a while and this book provides it for everyone. No matter what you usually read, or what your background is, you will enjoy this collection.
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