The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for August 15, 2010
August 14, 2010
August 16, 2010
Transcript:
Huey: Ugh...this video is terrible. Turn it. Riley: You say everything is terrible. You're a hater. Huey: Y'know...the brutally honest critiques that you call "hating" are why black people have always been at the forefront of music and culture. Artists knew that if they didn't excel, black people would yell and boo and heckle them off the stage. Tough audiences have always made our artists better... Riley: Uh-huh... Huey: Now if we could only get black people to start booing each other in math class... Riley: Whatever, hater.
KenTheCoffinDweller over 14 years ago
Surfstuff55 - I’m not sure if you are just being sarcastic or are missing Huey’s point all together. But to an extent Huey is right and not just about African-American students. I’ve seen peer pressure and parental pressure applied to raise the efforts of poor performers. Of course carried to extremes it can do more harm then good.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
You stop being the class clown whenyou start paying for class. College opens the eyes of many students.
peter0423 over 14 years ago
Not unless they’re working to pay for it, Lewreader. If they’re there on their parents’ dime, or on a loan they won’t have to worry about repaying until after they graduate (an eternity at that age), they still have no incentive not to goof around.
rotts over 14 years ago
SCAATY, Lew said, …”when YOU start paying for class…”.
joyhicks2020 over 14 years ago
Amen!!! I love this! I should post this in my mathematics/science class. My students won’t listen to me, but maybe they will listen to our man, Huey! The future is about science and math… goodbye to humanities!! I’m doing my best to help to encourage my students, especially math where they have the greatest deficit. When they (middle school students) tell me they want to be video game inventors, I tell them they better hit the math book as math is part of the game of invention!
kfaatz925 over 14 years ago
@joyhicks - I agree with you about the importance of science and math, but I don’t think the humanities are quite dead yet. Nor should they be. :)
avonsalis over 14 years ago
Booing a poor performance in math class is the opposite of the negative peer pressure that undercuts excellence as uncool.
So I think all the commenters are right. Mostly, because Aaron McG is right!
And whether it’s the arts or the sciences, there are plenty of examples of blacks who have excelled only by achieving even higher than one ought to have to achieve in order to succeed.
The sad part is that there would have been even more successes by deserving blacks, if they had only needed to achieve equally; and we’ve all lost the contributions they would have been in a position to make. Just look at how we almost lost blood banking because Dr. Charles Drew wouldn’t invent some fake “scientific” excuse to set up separate blood banks for “black blood” and “white blood”. No white scientist would have been expected to do it.