The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for December 19, 2014
Transcript:
Riley: I don't know what to write. I do the same thing every summer - keep it real! You know? Huey: It's not that hard...Think about how much happened this summer. We left Chicago, moved here... Riley: A page is so long... Huey: Use this assignment to express your frustration, your outrage, your alienation! Riley: Who cares if I fail? (Yawn) This is stupid. Huey: Only your apathy manages to astound me more than your laziness. Riley: Whatever, man...
Most criminals don’t succeed. They end going to prison for six to ten years, get released, then try to do the same things they got arrested for, except they’re in their 30s and are a little fatter and a little slower. Arrested again, serve ten years and they come out middle-aged guys who can sew jeans and run a metal press—-if they earned the privilege to work in prison.