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.
batmanwithprep almost 11 years ago
“Uh-oh, here comes Huey McHater again!”
William Bednar Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Yep. As long as characters like Huey are around racism will never end. For Huey, either you’re Black or you’re White. No exceptions. I wonder when we will begin to see each other as Humans? Do I hear Huey laughing? Probably…
BeniHanna6 Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Strip is so out of date. Biracial children are so common now that it’s no big deal. Probably why this strip is dead.
kaffekup almost 11 years ago
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?”