Syndicate Says 'Boondocks' May Not Return

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Originally posted by abaici
These comments from the article were funny:

“At a certain point, I just got the uncomfortable feeling that this was a bunch of people who were feeling a little too good about themselves,” McGruder said afterward. “These are the big, rich white leftists who are going to carry the fight to George Bush, and the best they can do is blame Nader?”

“I don’t go to the cartoonist conventions,” McGruder said. “I went once, to the Reuben Awards”—the Oscars of cartooning—“and I didn’t feel very welcome. I felt a palpable sense of resentment. Bil Keane was the m.c., and he opened doing more than one joke that was clearly aimed at me. It was raw—just some f'd-up s#!&. O.K., and yet, if I get out of my chair right now and beat the s#%$ out of you, then I’m the bad guy? You’re sitting here, clearly dogging me—not by name, but how many black cartoonists are working? He told some joke about diversity in comics. Like ‘There’s a lot of diversity in comics these days. They don’t have to be funny, they just have to be diverse.’ There were a couple of shots at me where I was like, ‘Motherf@#%#r, you don’t know me. We’re not cool.’”

That was an interesting article, with some good quotes. I saved this one, because it is how I frequently felt at a previous job.

“Somebody has to sort of translate the drums for white folks, and occasionally they call me to try to do it,” McGruder explained.