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Summary: Tickled my Funnybone
Review: This whole book tickled my funnybone. I was in the break room at work laughing up a storm and promoting the book all day. I thought McGruder was being a little cynical by saying black folks don't read, but one dude goes "I got a shirt with dude on it, but I never heard of the strip". I told him to check out the strip if he really wants to know what he's wearing. Anyway, I thought the book was a very intelligent view of how I view politics and society as a whole (and him and a bunch of other people who dare to raise their hands). The only problem I had with this book is many comic strips sounded familiar and that's because I bought the "Fresh for '01, Suckas" book along with getting daily comics e-mailed to me. Regardless, this is a great book and i will be buying the next one.
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Summary: Aaron McGruder is a leftist Buckwheat!
Review: McGruder will stop at nothing to get attention... even if it means lying. He knows in his heart that he is wrong, but because he's not getting enough readers, he'll say something outrageous to draw their attention. He'll even spread lies through his appropriation-of-Asian-Anime-art (i.e. Boondocks).First off, McGruder is not using a balanced view through the four main characters. About 97 percent of the comic strip is told through Huey's point of view! You can't miss it. McGruder identifies himself through Huey, who is McGruder's alterego. Second off, Coolguy is right (and I wonder how closely you guys read his review; scroll down and read it again). McGruder does not know his history or culture. Karenga, the author of Kwanzaa and a former USO member, said (and coolguy quotes him) that Kwanzaa HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH AFRICA! Why would a Black Panther wannabe (i.e. Huey) celebrate a holiday made up by a USO member who is a rival? That's like a Muslim celebrating Jesus' birthday on Christmas! Get it? Third off, the cover of the book is just uncalled for. McGruder makes fun of Cindy for appropriating black culture, yet McGruder appropriates Asian culture! Someone should do some Kung Fu on McGruder's skinny behind. Obviously, he's taking Asians for granted. Fourth off, McGruder is a hypocrite. He has socialist ideas yet he sells his book for a large some of money when he could just give his book out for free like a good socialist. Also, he recommends that you go to his website THAT IS ON A PAID SERVER! He can make a website on a FREE SERVER! Furthermore, what is he doing associating himself with a rich white man like Michael Moore? Moore drives around in limousines, rides in private jets, and sends his child to a private school. What's going on here, McGruder? You got some explaining to do. Michael Moore, like you, are depending on a "white", capitalistic, America to pay for your books. Since you follow Moore's example, he remains to be your massa, otay? As you can see, McGruder is inconsistent, not accurate, hypocritical, and draws a comic book based on propaganda. Oh me of my! Oh my oh me!
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Summary: Ignore the Sad Reviewers.....
Review: This comic works on several levels. First, Mr. McGruder is one of the most insightful political commentators today. His shots at Rush Limbaugh's hypocrisy, the Iraq war, the CIA "tip line." Second, while I have never met Mr. McGruder (nor have any hope of doing so), it is interesting watching the interplay of the four main characters, and imagining they represent four aspects of McGruder's psyche. The Grandfather, representing traditional values and history (fishing, homeownership, and Dorothy Dandridge (sp?)). Caesar, the creative, hip hop musical side. Riley, the struggle of coping with contemporary amerika's portrait of young black males--enjoying the thrills of being "bad," while ignoring how manipulated he really is. And Huey, my personal favorite, one of the last radical socialists in contemporary culture--an unapologetic leftist who is never not reading.....All four struggling to form a balance, a home on Timid Deer Lane.... The most important point though, is the strips are funny. If a comic isn't funny, you might as well be reading Mary Worth. I did knock off one star, because this "treasury" suffers from the same marketing issues as the Bloom County books: Right to be Hostile has many, but not all, of the comics in the first two books. It also has comics that are *not* in the first two books. So, if you are a freakish, die hard, crazy fan--you need to buy all three books for a whole set. That's the only reason for removing a star (harsh, I know. But I'm an old crank). As for two previous reviews, the person who called Michael Moore Mr. McGruder's "massa" is an insulting moron. His own prose demonstrates what a hopeless idiot he really is. The second review takes Mr. McGruder to task because Huey Freeman (named after Huey Newton, co-founder of the Back Panther Party) was upset about missing Kwanza--a holiday created by Dr. Karenga, founder of United Slaves (US). The reviewer is correct that US and the Party were enemies, and courtesy of J Edgar Hoover's FBI, US was outfitted with equipment & weapons, with the goal of destroying the Party. Karenga was (and probably still is) a dangerous, unsympathetic character. Nevertheless, I know many people who celebrate Kwanza for the message it carries--despite Karenga. If you read the strips, Huey is torn because he forgot kwanza--on the one hand, Huey is a radical socialist as opposed to a black cultural nationalist. Still, "Blackness" is his culture, and forgetting holiday was understandably upsetting--all of which led to my favorite strip, when Huey asks Riley for advice........My point is, Mr. McGruder is consistent, accurate, and draws a comic based on what he knows. And is funny. And Free Jolly Jenkins!
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Summary: Aaron McGruder's massa is Michael Moore!
Review: Here's an expose on Moore from newsmax: "Michael Moore Enjoying Corporate High Life America's most obnoxious corporate critic, Michael Moore, is living high on the hog thanks to the perks two corporations have provided him for the West Coast leg of his book tour. Moore was flown around California aboard a private jet, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, courtesy of media mega-corporation Time Warner. And while he wasn't enjoying the corporate high life at 30,000 feet, he was tooling around the Golden State in the kind of vehicle anti-corporate environmentalists routinely decry as public enemy No. 1 - an SUV paid for by his publisher's corporation, Warner Books. Moore's man-of-the-people image was further dented when it was revealed that he gladly accepted the protection of several bodyguards, who helped the left-wing crusader keep the unwashed masses at bay. Asked if his new chairman-of-the-board lifestyle meant he was being hypocritical, Moore told the Los Angeles Times that the only reason he's feeding at the corporate trough is because it's there.
"I would never pay for this," he insisted." Furthermore, Moore sends his child to a private school! This is the kind of people that McGruder supports: Leftist, liberal-limousine, no-brain, hypocrites. Private jets hurt the earth's atmosphere more than SUVs by the way. Here's more hypocrisy: McGruder is a socialist yet he sells his book for $16.95, why is that McGruder? Shouldn't his comics be available for free! Why pay so much for it? And, yes, McGruder is taking Asians for granted which is typical among leftist. McGruder is confused and wouldn't even begin to know how to speak for blacks.
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Summary: Dear Aaron "the professional victim" McGruder,
Review: You're ignorant. Trust me on this. It's bad enough you have a limousine-liberal like Michael Moore writing the foreword to your book, what's worse is you don't even know your own culture. Take for instance, your leading protagonist Huey who was named after the co-founder of the Black Panthers, Huey P. Newton (p.16). On page 47, little Huey forgot about Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a "holiday" made up by Ron Karenga who was head of the United Slaves Organization (USO). If you know your history you'd know that the USO and the Black Panthers never got along. They were rivals and they had numerous violent confrontations. Why in the world would a character named after Huey Newton celebrate a bogus holiday (Karenga has stated: "People think it's African but it's not. I came up with Kwanzaa because Black people wouldn't celebrate it if they knew it was American. Also, I put it around Christmas because I knew that's when a lot of Bloods would by partying.") authored by a psychopath like Karenga (who tortured Deborah Jones and Gail Davis and was judged schizophrenic)? Not only are you ignorant, you're a hypocrite. You make fun of a white character like Cindy (introduced on page 17) appropriating Black culture on page 50 (and then some), yet you have the audacity to appropriate Asian culture by using anime art! Furthermore, look at the front cover of your book! You have these Black kids dressed up like a bunch of Kung Fu stars. Do you like treating Asians like this? And, don't give me any of that Asians-haven't-complained-to-me stuff. Either way, you stand guilty of the utmost hypocrisy. I'll give you credit: you're comic strips are funny, and very compelling, and I was interested enough to read it to the end - I had a wonderful time highlighting all the misinformation in your book. Sorry, to say it, but your intelligence is as low as the age of young Huey whose leftist, socialist, progressive ideologies blinded you. I'm sure you are secretly hoping that this white supremacist, capitatlistic society turns your book into a bestseller. Good luck on your TV pilot, Cool Guy
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Summary: A Right to be Hostile- A Must Read!
Review: This book is about an African-American family, a typical granddad, a young thug Riley, and a controversial revolutionary named Huey Freeman, who lived in the hard side of Chicago moving to the Boondocks. It started out as comparing the urbs with the suburbs, but turned to more political issues and America's pop culture. This book is quite possibly the most entertaining way to learn about the current day economy. As Ceaser, Hueys best friend shows his thoughts of hip hop culture, Huey posts his ideas of the world on his own site. Most of these jokes referring to P. Diddy, Eddie Griffin, and our very own G.W. Bush, it shows the opinions in clever and creative ways. I recommend this book to anyone interested in current news and hip hop.
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Summary: Funny and Clever What More could you ask for
Review: This book is the funniest book I have ever read. The book is smart, it does not go for the easy or cheap laugh. You will not be disappointed by buying this Book
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Summary: A must read even for a right-winger
Review: This is an example of pure, unadulterated genius. Mr. Aaron McGruder has taken cultural awareness and added hip-hop flavor, then tossed in some of the most real, unspoken context that the 21st century will ever know! He has done for comics with his cleverness, what Biggie, Jigga and India.Arie has done for music. Big ups to A Mac, he has surely taken political awareness to another genre and allowed for the children to grasp the world news by enticing critical thinking skills.
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Summary: Proof it's good satire - it's been banned
Review: Comparing this comic to Doonesbury is easy. Comparing this comic to Bloom County and Lil' Abner, now THAT'S praise. Aaron McGruder can go from trashing BET and Star Wars one day, to lambasting American political policies the next, and never failing to get a laugh. His response to the knee-jerk patriotism that got him booted from the NY Daily News for reminding us that Bush Senior sent weapons to Afganistan years ago--The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon, two loveable patriotic characters. Those characters reappeared in the basement months later, along with a rubik's cube a ColecoVision and all the other stuff people don't have a use for anymore. This is not a hip-hop strip. This is not a strip about how cool it is to be black and hate whitey. This is the best piece of daily satire to come along in a long time. Pick up on it.
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Summary: ....
Review: Although I am only an early teenager I still have political and philisophical views (perhaps more than many my age), The Boondocks while at the time being hilarious also touches many political issues varying from SARS to the "War on Iraq" (didnt they say they would be "liberating" it now its called a war on it... Bush screwed up there) and it even touches less important but still relevant to current day issues.
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