How hateful can you get? This seems to be the theme of the “Boondocks” debut on UPN. They have gone past nazismem. Kudos to the director. Hitler would be impressed. :eek: :eek:
It takes alot to shock people today and they should be with what they saw recently. 
Proud is the word that is missing above. To show cops going into a mini mart and acually gunning down an unarmed Arab owner of a mini mart and covering it up in the manner that they showed has to be in your face racisim. No other reason for it. Let’s not go out and riot and burn down neighborhoods for this. I believe this is the point. Tos how that Free Speech is about putting up with this kind of speech. I got it. Did you? :smack:
It’s on UPN too? Or did you mean Cartoon Network?
What is nazismem?
Amigo, I sympathize with your obvious distress over this subject—whatever it is—but you have to realize that your posts aren’t giving us much clue as to what the hell you’re talking about. Boondocks? UPN? Mini mart? What?
Do you have anything in the way of a link that will provide fuller information?
Even if you do, it looks as though this is ultimately more of a Pit rant than a debate.
It’s how Hitler’s bureaucracy communicated with each other about important issues like who brings donuts to Friday’s staff meeting and the adoption of a new casual day Friday at Auschwitz.
“22 Word Godwin” would be an excellent name for a rock band.
Assuming the incomprehensible OP is referring to an episode of The Boondocks television show, A Date With A Health Inspector, in which (in part), the clueless faux-thug son of the wealthiest man in town refuses to pay for beer at the local convenience store, and it escalates in absurdity to the point where they have a rentacop convinced that the store owner is a terrorist, with a shootout ensuing.
What the OP seems to be missing is that the scene, really the entire show, is satire. It’s showing blatant racism and cultural stereotyping in the most hyperbolic way possible (alleging that the Arab shopkeeper is a terrorist only because he’s Arab, and putting him on the wrong end of a shootout as a result) in order to show how wrong such stereotyping is. It doesn’t condone doing so, and to take that message away really misses what seems to me a very obvious point.
Si Amigo - There’s a point to the episodes, there is satire, and it was perfectly clear in the episode you’re ranting against. If you didn’t see it, you just won’t. You’ll miss the point of a trial for R Kelly videotaping himself urinating on an underaged girl and the support mob that forms outside the courthouse for him (In Huey’s words at the end of the episode: “What the hell is wrong with you people? Every famous nigga that gets arrested is not Nelson Mandela! Yes, the government conspires to put a lot of innocent black men in jail on fallacious charges, but R. Kelly is NOT one of those men! We all KNOW the nigga can sing, but what happened to standards?! What happened to bare minimums?! You a fan of R. Kelly? You wanna HELP R. Kelly? Then get some COUNSELLING for R. Kelly! Introduce him to some older women! Hide his camcorder! But don’t pretend like the man is a hero! (walks off) (returns) And stop the damn dancing! Act like you got some goddamn sense, people! Damn! Through playin’ round here.”). The episode in which ML King comes back from a coma into the present day and is derided as a terrorist sympathizer for preaching a Christian message of love for one’s brother will roll off your back. Just take the episodes at face value and seethe over nothing.
More to the point, the thugs were charicatures of Bush and Rumsfeld, and they accused the clerk of terrorism to get out of paying for beer. It’s a satire on the war in Iraq. And it was so heavy handed, that I’m surprised you missed it.
Also, we got to hear Sam Jackson playing Rumsfeld, which was awesome.
I think a discussion of the animated version of Aaron McGruder’s brilliant (if acid) cartoon strip Boondocks is pretty clearly one for Cafe Society (unless Si Amigo returns to convert it to a genuine rant.
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I thought that episode was the best satire we’ve had of the Iraq war so far. Heavy-handed, sure, but funny (and it even had a Monty Python quote in it) and well-done in my opinion. I have no idea which part of the whole thing is supposed to be racist or why we should burn anything down as a result.
Also, nobody was gunned down in the episode. Crazy amounts of shots were fired, somewhat John Woo-style, but nobody was killed.
That seems par for this show. A lot of shooting but not much killing. They did something similar with the “Nigger moment” in the “Grandpa vs. Stinkmeyer” ep where two black guys start shooting at each other from 3 feet away but niether actually manage to hit each other.
Of course, then both combatants were gunned down by police. And Stinkmeyer himself was killed by grandpa. Pretty high body count for a comedy show, really.
Shouldn’t that be streudel instead of donuts?
Berliners.
(Hamlet, you’re going straight to hell.)
I’m still trying to make some sense of the OP… Si Amigo, the cartoon was made and aired quite some time before any of the cartoon controversies, if that’s what you’re saying, so there’s no connection. And the guys who held up the convenience store weren’t cops.
I thought the two guys shooting at each other basically stopped after a while and went about their business, proving that they had “kept it real”.
They did. Then the cops showed up. Remember, nigga moments are the number three cause of death for Black men after pork and FEMA.
And Charlie Murphy playing Bush. 
Si Amigo, it might help to pay attention to the show instead of going off half-cocked.
Si Amigo - Watched a few episodes. It’s far darker and harsher than the comic, and seems to make a point to include as many “offensive” elements as humanly possible. (Riley never has guns, pellet or otherwise, in the comic, and Huey uses the word “nigga” not at all.) I don’t know why. If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend reading the source material for a little perspective. The online site is www.ucomics.com.
As for the episode you’re referring to (the one with the two boneheads making up all kinds of ridiculous excuses for robbing the convenience store), yes, it’s an astonishingly ham-handed metaphor for the current war in Iraq. I found it really tedious but not hateful…well, no more hateful than is normal for this kind of show.