A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks” and Huey Freeman: Is he a Cynic or a Realist?

[Editor’s Note: This is the second of five installments of character case studies on characters on creator and writer Aaron McGruder’s comic strip now turned animated series on Adult Swim, “The Boondocks.” I feel that each of the characters epitomize a particular social and political archetype or stereotype that is represented in some aspects within […]

A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks” and Riley Freeman: Is He Homophobic or Just Comic Relief?

[Editor’s Note: This is the first of five installments of character case studies on characters on creator and writer Aaron McGruder’s comic strip now turned animated series on Adult Swim, “The Boondocks.” I feel that each of the characters epitomize a particular social and political archetype or stereotype that is represented in some aspects within […]

A Character Case Study of “The Boondocks”

So, two seconds before I went to write the title of this blog post, it hit me to do a case study, from an Uppity Negro perspective of the hit show on Adult Swim entitled “The Boondocks” created by comic strip writer Aaron McGruder. Initially, I was just going to write about the previous episode […]

Why They Don’t Like Us and Why We Don’t Like Them: It’s Because of South Carolina

Within the past year or so, Americans have heard the words “South Carolina” and “Representative” or “Congressperson” in the “Lieutenant governor” and “Governor” same sentence and phrasing. Nothing really odd about the “Representative” or “Congressman” but really, we’ve been hearing a lot about South Carolina politics. South Carolina state politics are like that of New […]

The Obama Indecision: The Gen. McChrystal Problem

[Editors Note: So I wrote the majority of this post by 11:30am this morning and by the time I returned around 3:00pm, McChrystal had “resigned” and Gen. Petraeus had been appointed by President Obama.] Our president, Barack Obama made it clear in April of 2008 that he was a politician and that he was all […]

The Genius of Obama: Damned If He Do, Damned If He Don’t

I had initially planned to write a blog entitled “The Crisis of Leadership” back almost a month ago to really examine just how President Barack Obama was handling the oil spill. I remember listening to one of his press conferences around the time the conservative media was really pressing the connection of the candidacy of […]

Don’t Jaywalk In Seattle: You Can Be Punched in the Nose for It

This should be a short post, I don’t have much to say about it, but anyone that tries to attempt to racialize this incident needs to be arrested and punched in the face for sheer dumbassery. According to the video, that’s as clear as you can get, there was one single officer who was trying […]

Goddamn America

My previous post about the media’s love affair with Chicago and it’s current violence and how it’s linked to current President Barack Obama led me on a journey down a dark corridor of my hometown’s history of violence just in my life time. I had intended to call the names of some of the young […]

Mainstream Media and their Love Affair With Chicago’s Violence

I was born and raised in Chicago. Born at the now defunct, and as I drove by just this last week, now demolished Michael Reese Hospital. I started kindergarten in 1989 here in Chicago, the first year of School Reform where Chicago Public Schools still had a superintendent and the establishment of the Local School Council was […]

Being Black and Dealing With Postcolonialism in a Postmodern World

Editors note: This is probably going to be one of my longer posts, maybe not, depends on how quickly I work it out. But if I go over my standard 1,500 characters so be it. So go get get the tea, coffee or print this bad boy out because I’m here until it’s done. A […]

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