The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for February 20, 2012
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Transcript:
TV: People putting their clothes on backward. Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong? People with their hats on backward, pants down the crack. Isn't that a sign of something? ...Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull their pants up? Huey: No, but I think we're all praying he'll take those silly sunglasses off your face.
I don’t think Huey is suggesting that baggy pants are okay, nor do I think he’s being defensive here. I think he was trying to point out hypocrisy. In his eyes (no pun intended), it’s ridiculous for someone to wear sunglasses indoors, I guess unless they’re blind.
McGruder had a problem with Bill Cosby’s comments around 2004, because he felt that what Cosby said was classist. A lot of people thought that Cosby was talking to the Black community, while in McGruder’s opinion, Bill Cosby was calling out lower class Black community in particular. What McGruder felt, was that a lot of what Cosby was saying applied to American youth in general, not just poor Blacks, which is true. I see rude kids of all races wearing saggy pants, backwards hats and listening to vulgar music.
Also, Aaron McGruder stated that Bill Cosby failed to see the hypocrisy in criticizing the use of AAVE (‘jive speak’), when he was the one who created the character of Mushmouth in the Fat Albert cartoons (Mushmouth was a not-so-intelligent, goofy-looking boy who spoke in Ubbi Dubbi).