The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for June 12, 2011
June 11, 2011
June 13, 2011
Transcript:
Huey: It's a disgusting societal double standard. Poor people get hooked on crack and they're the garbage of society. The elites get addicted to painkillers and they make the cover of newsweek. And what is it about white people that they get hooked on painkillers anyway? I mean, you don't see black people getting hooked on Robitussin?
rayannina almost 13 years ago
Within a few years, getting hooked on cough syrup (aka “purple drank”) would become common. Aaron Magruder was ahead of the curve …
njberman almost 13 years ago
Aaron Magruder was ahead of his time in so many ways, and always spot on. I miss him every time I read on of the old strips. I hope he is well.
person918 almost 13 years ago
I’m pretty “purple drank” has codeine cough syrup in it, rather than robitussin… but yeah, DXM’s pretty widely abused nowadays also. perhaps if certain other, actually less harmful, drugs were legalized people would be less inclined hmmm?
tegm almost 13 years ago
Right, because pain killers are on the same level of bad as crack.
person918 almost 13 years ago
to quote this months Discover magazine: “The Office of Nation Drug Control Policy reports that prescription drug overdoses have killed more people than crack and heroin combined did in the 1970s and 1980s”
lin4869 almost 13 years ago
Our son is in prison and he told us white people get better paying jobs while black people usually don’t. I keep hoping we’ve gotten past this stupidity!