The Bondocks Satire

The Boondocks an adult cartoon by Aaron McGruder is a magnificent example of contemporary satire. McGruder’s use of satire personifies different minds after different moments of black history such as Jim Crow laws, the civil rights movement, slavery, etc. Even the early days of The Boondocks franchise when it was only a comic strip in a college newspaper, there was controversy linked. Boondocks is about the lives of a cantankerous old man named Robert “Granddad” Freeman and his grandsons named Riley and Huey in Woodcrest suburbs(the boondocks). McGruder used The Boondocks to tackle prevalent topics in the black community. In a world full of censorship, McGruder took many risks in order to convey what he felt needed to be said. There is an episode titled, “The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show” which addresses many topics that are not usually talked about on television or in cartoons in general. Uncle Ruckus is McGruder’s weapon of satire in the sense that Uncle Ruckus is an old black man who hates black people and claims to be white. This is usually a trope that is done with

Gangstalicious is Riley Freeman’s favorite rapper who is shot and hunted throughout the episode. The episode opens with the following notice, “The following is a completely fictional work of satire. Any similarities with actual rappers is totally, completely, coincidental”. McGruder is making it known right at the start that there is meant to be offense at the start. In a way the episode also confronts abusive relationships because the only reason Gangstalicious was shot was because his shooter found that to be the most efficient way to express his love. When Riley finds this out he goes off on a homophobic tangent which is synonymous with some of the mindsets of the black