The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for December 08, 2013
December 07, 2013
December 09, 2013
Transcript:
Jazmine: Most people don't understand what it's like being different. Like...I once saw a yellow flower right in the middle of a bunch of red roses... Everything around it was either green or red, and here was this yellow flower. It looked lonely. That's what it's like being biracial. I'm different from everyone else. My mom and dad say that makes me special, but I just think it's lonely... Huey: Jazmine? Jazmine: Yes. Huey: You're black. Get over it. Jazmine: Ohhh, be quiet...nobody was talking to you anyway. Hmmmph.
What Huey is referring to is the One Drop rule: one frop of black blood makes you black, period. We may say it’s gone, but it’s just underground. I hear many people of indeterminate ethnicity say they are asked repeatedly “But what are you?”