# "Boston Globe" will NOT run Boondocks Sept 20 - Sept 24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219 "2004-09-21T00:50:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/1 "2004-09-21T00:50:27Z")
Well that title explains a lot. Anybody else have a newspaper that won’t publish Boondocks this week? I think I’ll surf the web and see if I can get more information. ---
**Author:** ![Neurotik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/91b2a8/32.png) [@Neurotik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Neurotik)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/2 "2004-09-21T00:56:14Z")
> [@wolf\_meister](#): > > Well that title explains a lot. > Anybody else have a newspaper that won’t publish Boondocks this week? > I think I’ll surf the web and see if I can get more information. Was the Russell Simmons reality show “Can A Nigga Get a Job?” today’s comic? I think that’s why. Gratuitous use of the word nigga. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/3 "2004-09-21T01:02:22Z")
Rendered as N\*\*\*A, and read as NAFTA by us poor Canucks. Well, not really. ---
**Author:** ![Askia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@Askia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/4 "2004-09-21T01:14:22Z")
Well, the word “Nigga” is rendered “N\*\*\*A” in the strip – what’s gratuituous about asterisks? Huey is watching TV and looks properly chagrined by the concept. The idea of a lisping Russell Simmons doing the Trump thing is kinda funny, tho. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/5 "2004-09-21T01:17:19Z")
Well I surfed the Boston Globe’s website to find their reasons for the one week “boycott” but I found nothing. (I _did_ read today’s “Boston Globe” comics section but I can’t remember their exact wording.) (Actually they will publish _previous_ Boondocks comics this week). Anyway, here’s today’s comic: [http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/](http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/) ---
**Author:** ![Amp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Amp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amp)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/6 "2004-09-21T01:21:35Z")
The strip is actually kind of funny today. I don’t see what the problem is. ---
**Author:** ![carimwc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ac8455/32.png) [@carimwc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carimwc)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-globe-will-not-run-boondocks-sept-20-sept-24/265219/7 "2004-09-21T01:55:15Z")
The Washington Post isn’t running it either.