The Washington Post is skipping this weeks run of ‘The Boondocks’ for, as they put it, ‘content reasons’ (at least on the website).
I looked elsewhere and it’s about a reality TV show in which black folks are trying to land a job (expressed more pungently).
So is it just The Washington Post or are other newspapers giving it the heave ho this week?
Looks like it’s across the board. MSNBC, which has censored the BD in the past, is also showing a rerun, while ucomics has the new one. The word "N***A" is used four times…“Lazy and stupid” is used twice. That’s probably the reason. Not that I support the reason.
The Chicago Tribune ran it.
The Indianapolis Star is running it.
A line of asterisks replace what is apparently “niggas.” In today’s strip, Riley makes a distinction between black people and ******.
Our local paper is running it, with the three asterisks. They also had an article beforehand explaining the controversy and their reasons for going with the strip. I have to admire them for that.
I don’t think the asterisks are a replacement for anything. The strip appears on uComics with the asterisks.
The L.A. Times is running it, also with asterisks.
Newsday replaced it with Baldo, thus replacing one really unfunny ethnic comic with another still unfunny but at least funnier than Boondocks ethnic comic, the latter being much less offensive and political in nature.
If Boondocks doesn’t come back, I doubt I’ll terribly miss it.
It’s running in The Kansas City Star. And this is the paper that would refuse to run Bloom County over the most piddly nonsense.
It’s a whole new world. . .
I always find it impressive that newspapers are so quick to drop comics that could be deemed offensive (witness Calvin and Hobbes being dropped because of a discussion of “boogers” in one installment) but so increadably slow to drop them because they aren’t funny any more. Personally I wish they’d drop this weeks Cathy because, as they put it, “some of our readership may find it stupid”
San Jose Mercury News is running it.
Which paper is this? I’d love to read their explanation of the controversy.
Newsday, to its credit, did drop Cathy some time ago. However, the Ms. D_Odds has the daily on her homepage, and I am still forced (arm-twisted and everything) to read it far too often.
You can see the strips on Yahoo.
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It’s in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. And it has been my favorite comic strip for the past few years.
Wow, now I can see why Newsday thought this was too hot to handle.
Clearly, Magruder is in Bill Cosby mode.
Aack!!!
You misspelled “decade”. 
I get the Fremont Argus as well as the Murky News, and they’re running it also. Actually I think Boondocks has improved a bit lately.
It’s running in the Raleigh NC News and Observer. I just waiting for the rabid letters to the editors to start demanding either
A) The strip be dropped because it isn’t wholesome family fair like that darling Family Circus.
B) The strip be moved to the editorial page with that scourge of the comics, Doonesbury
It’s tough being a liberal in this state. We progressives are a tiny island in a sea of conservatism.
sigh
It’s the Hampton Roads Daily Press. The article is called “‘Boondocks’ Stirs up Controversy” , and requires registration to read online. (I read it in Sunday’s paper.)