The Boondocks and Aaron McGruder = Best Social Commentary

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For those that have never watched it, The Boondocks is a cartoon on Adult Swim that provides social and political commentary through the eyes of a family living in the suburbs.

One of the best episodes was when he brought Martin Luther King back and gave the below speech:

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This man speaks the truth.



So do you think he's sending the right message out?
 
Everyone knows blacks are cocaine addicts, but not all blacks love KFC. How did I forget
 
Cool video. But unfortunately, King's economic-political beliefs directly produced the problems in black society today. King was right for standing up for legal equity and against injustice - however, he was wrong with his socialist leveling politics. The State is the very cause of social disintegration in black society today. King was wrong to look to the State to be his savior against injustice.
 
That was a very interesting episode. I really loved the ending when they banded together in unified hatred for a common enemy.

The kick ball episode was pretty decent too. He's really going all out for this last season.
 
Unifying to sing about beaners is showing the hypocracy/stupidity of racism and racists.

Nigger technology/trying to abduct Oprah is probably the funniest episode to me.
 
But can you not see how the State kept those same people in bondage with legislation for close to 100 years after slavery had been abolished?
 
thats contradictory.. king was right to stand up for legal equality and justice (which took an act by the state to accomplish) yet he was wrong for look to the state solve those issues.
 
War on Drugs is a welfare policy, regardless of an individual's own definition of 'socialism.'
 
Only so much you can say with a small strip. With the show he has a lot more room to get his message across.

Sucks that this is the final season.
 
The State mandating it take control of what substances enter your body is doing so in the interest of PUBLIC WELFARE. And yes, indeed incarceration IS welfare-socialism-slavery in a very real sense.
 
Either way, your original assertion that what MLK supported put blacks where they are today is assinine at best, retarded at worst.
 
How would you suggest a group of people react after being enslaved for hundreds of years?

What would have been Lew's solution to the end of slavery?
(I'm asking because I don't think there is a "good" option here, someone is going to get screwed)
 
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