Black America’s failure to hold Boondocks ACCOUNTABLE for its use of the n-word manifests an inability to rise from an 18th century enslaved mentality state of mind. If the producer of the show was white all of Black America would be up in arms over the use of the n-word and the fact that Aaron McGruder is BLACK should not give him the license to degrade and demean Black America.
Boondocks use of the n-word reduces the show to the level of a minstrel, skinin and grinin, shuckin and jivin shuffling syndrome and is therefore unacceptable to [self]-respecting Black Americans whose mind-set transcends such debasing and deprecating imagery.
I’m sure that Boondocks satire and caricature of black people can prove to be humorous and enlightening without being contemptuous and scornful of the sacred memories of their victimized ancestors of the 300 years African American Holocaust which use of the n-word serves as lighting rod for.
H. Lewis Smith is the founder and president of UVCC, the United Voices for a Common Cause, Inc., www.theunitedvoices.com and author of “Bury that Sucka: A Scandalous Love Affair with the N-Word”.
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