January 25, 2005
The Ever-Despicable Boondocks
Aaron McGruder is in fine form this week with these "Boondocks" strips that suggest that Iraqi voters are suicidal morons for defying terrorist threats. It's not hard to tell which side Mr. McGruder is on...
[and yes, I'm stealing his bandwidth]
I actually liked the first one. The second, not so much. Still, anything that reminds people that the unrest in Iraq is about democracy vs. tyranny, and not U.S. hegemony vs. "resistance," can't be all bad.
Posted by: Xrlq at January 25, 2005 08:15 PMTHe first one by itself was ambiguous. The second one informs the first. Today's cartoon is about Allawi "dying to be president."
If this was a cartoon about black voters in Mississippi, circa 1964, with the Klan threatening them with death if they voted, would McGruder be taking this tack?
Posted by: Kevin Murphy at January 26, 2005 09:07 AMThere have been times I read one of his strips and I almost think he's commenting on the moral decrepitude of that one kid's world view.
Then McGruder opens his mouth and it becomes obvious the moral decrepitude is his own.
Posted by: McGehee at January 27, 2005 06:05 AMI guess it never occurred to McGruder that you could say the same thing about black voters in Alabama in 1965.
Posted by: Phelps at January 28, 2005 01:09 PM