The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for November 24, 2017
November 23, 2017
November 25, 2017
Transcript:
Huey: There are very few constants in life. Caeser: Yeah. Huey: But there's one thing you can always count on no matter what kind of terrible things are happening in the world. Caeser: Yeah? Huey: You can always turn on B.E.T. and see a bunch of black people partying like they just graduated from law school. Caeser: Yeah.
I turned to B.E.T once and there were two women on there talking about the latest gossip. The way they were carrying on was to me much more insulting to blacks than anything Buckwheat, Stymie, Little Black Sambo or Amos and Andy ever did. Hal Roach was way ahead of his time by including characters such as Buckwheat as an equal to the others demonstrating that whites and blacks could get along on a social basis without the problems of bigotry that actually existed in certain areas of the country.