The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for May 15, 2011
May 14, 2011
May 16, 2011
Transcript:
Granddad: These dummies just ain't using their brains, boy!! How hard is it to get these fools to think? Is that too much to ask? Huey: What is it, Granddad? Granddad: These dummies runnin' around screaming about reparations for slavery. I tell ya, it don't make no sense. Huey: Interesting...you don't think they're deserved? Granddad: Deserved ain't got nothing to do with it, it ain't never gonna happen. What are the odds of white folks ever giving us reparations? Huey: Slim, but what are the odds of you ever winning that lottery you've played every week for the last two decades? Granddad: You know, boy...I don't recall ever asking you to think. Huey: How thoughtless of me...
What struck me about this whole “reparations for slavery” thing is that if someone who had been enslaved was asking for reparations, I’d be behind them 100%; but as-is, it was more like my family asking the British crown for reparations over what Edward I did to us in the late 13th century.