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Uncle Ruckus Realizes He’s black

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The first thing he does is quit all his jobs. Then he puts on a long white tee and asks if now he’s supposed to be somebody babby daddy. Hilarious.

Aaron Magruder the creator of Boondocks is amazingly self critical of his own people while not hating his people. Often people compare his success to the success of Dave Chappelle. Dave always wondered if he was reinforcing racist stereotypes. Magruder through the various characters can touch on these stereotypes and in some cases he’s criticizing his own people quite strongly. For example look at how he portrays BET in this clip (Boondocks airs on adult swim, not BET - Ruckus’s reality show is on BET in this episode). But then again he can criticize self hating black people like Ruckus who are brainwashed. The Barber shop scene is a perfect example.

Season 2 of the Boondocks had its moments. I can’t wait for Season three.

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Koolaid markets to the Ghetto


You could just imagine company executives over at Koolaid discussing how their product somehow became the official drink of the ghetto. While joking about how this must have came about someone had an epiphany. They must have thought… well if Koolaid is so popular in the Ghetto then they should focus their marketing on the ghetto to maximize their profits!

So what do they do? They come out with Koolaid Sneakers (with Reebok) and cool tv commercial spots starring none other than the Koolaid man himself doing a cross-over.

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