# Am I missing something or is the Boondocks extremely racist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2014, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523 "2014-05-15T13:44:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Mavis\_Topholese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7feea3/32.png) [@Mavis\_Topholese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mavis_Topholese)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/41 "2014-05-20T17:02:17Z")
I haven’t seen Boondocks in a while but the Dr. King episode, where it turns out MLK has been in suspended animation this whole time, is revived, and gets to see how he’s been turned into an icon and how the whole civil rights thing turned out, is both hilarious and to-the-point dead-on commentary. ---
**Author:** ![Afrodite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/57b2e6/32.png) [@Afrodite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Afrodite)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/42 "2014-06-03T08:16:58Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > Yeah, all right. This makes sense. I guess it’s just my modern PC sensibilities. I’m gonna keep watching it (jeez, episode 4 has some nasty things to say about black people, doesn’t it), because it’s quite funny. I guess I just had to get over that issue first. I believe Jimmy Chit is right about the discomfort being your own, but I would not apply this theory to the latest season. I find season four to be extremely racist. Just, not funny, at all. I was actually embarrassed after I viewed the first episode with some friends who have never heard of Boondocks. Too many awkward moments to count. I found myself apologizing to them and trying to justify my interest in the show. ---
**Author:** ![Gerald\_II](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Gerald\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerald_II)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/43 "2014-06-03T08:20:18Z")
What happens in season 4 that seemed racist? ---
**Author:** ![planetcory](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/planetcory/32/1032_2.png) [@planetcory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/planetcory)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/44 "2014-06-03T12:13:31Z")
I haven’t seen Season Four, but it should be noted that Aaron Macgruder isn’t involved with it. He parted ways with the show (apparently acrimoniously). So it’s his characters but no longer his vision. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2014, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/45 "2014-06-03T22:32:55Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > I didn’t feel the satire was subtle, at all. It’s much more _South Park_ than _Colbert_, IYKWIM. You think _The Colbert Report_ is subtle? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2014, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523/46 "2014-06-04T11:47:25Z")
> [@Captain\_Amazing](#): > > Nobody in the history of humanity is as self-hating as Uncle Ruckus is. Ted Haggard? > [@Miller](#): > > His entire act: people with a sense of humor Aw come on, at the very least Walter is damn good fun. > [@Mavis\_Topholese](#): > > I haven’t seen Boondocks in a while but the Dr. King episode, where it turns out MLK has been in suspended animation this whole time, is revived, and gets to see how he’s been turned into an icon and how the whole civil rights thing turned out, is both hilarious and to-the-point dead-on commentary. Yeah, I think this was pretty much the tipping point for me - where I really started to “get it”. Where the show really started to grow on me. That, and “The Itis”. I’m still watching it, and I defrinitely don’t think it’s racist any more. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/am-i-missing-something-or-is-the-boondocks-extremely-racist/688523.md?page=2)