The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for March 24, 2010
March 23, 2010
March 25, 2010
Transcript:
Huey: So let me get this straight. I just sit in this chair, drink lemonade, and do nothing for several days. Caesar: Yes. Huey: I don't know... Caesar: What's not to know? Huey: Doesn't seem right with Mumia still in prison. Caesar: Mumia will understand!
Potrzebie over 14 years ago
Mumia? Who was that guy in the toon that was executed?
Trukzut over 14 years ago
Mumia Jamal. He supposedly shot a cop in NYC some years ago. Since, he’s become kind of a cause celeb in the black community.
chuck_henebry over 14 years ago
Mumia Abu-Jamal was a cause celebre in the eighties and nineties, a former Black Panther who in 1981 was arrested, tried and given a death sentence for a policeman’s murder. In New York City, you’d see graffiti and handmade posters with the slogan “Free Mumia.” The sentence has not yet been carried out. This wikipedia page will bring you fully up to date:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumia_Abu-Jamal
QuisTheGreat over 14 years ago
Mumia Abu Jamal free em all!
Quantumtorpedo1 over 14 years ago
The city is Philadelphia, not New York.
avonsalis over 14 years ago
Yeah, as a New Yorker I don’t want to be associated with any death-penalty stories! It’s Philadelphia that has the infamous Lynne Abraham, longtime District Attorney, feeding Death Row an astonishing volume of bodies.
In New York the death penalty was passed but then vetoed (by Governors with Catholic scruples - Carey and Cuomo) at least twelve years in a row, until Georgi Pataki got elected and signed the bill. But we still aren’t serious about killing our citizens. Our murder rate has been dropping so fast for so long that it seems pointless.
But a lot of folks in NYC disbelieve the Philly Police’s evidence implicating Mumia, and if it had really taken place in New York his life would be very different.
So Aaron McG is right-on that Mumia’s the perfect example of what a Huey would get utterly fixated on.