The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for August 15, 2010
August 14, 2010
August 16, 2010
Transcript:
Huey: Ugh...this video is terrible. Turn it. Riley: You say everything is terrible. You're a hater. Huey: Y'know...the brutally honest critiques that you call "hating" are why black people have always been at the forefront of music and culture. Artists knew that if they didn't excel, black people would yell and boo and heckle them off the stage. Tough audiences have always made our artists better... Riley: Uh-huh... Huey: Now if we could only get black people to start booing each other in math class... Riley: Whatever, hater.
Booing a poor performance in math class is the opposite of the negative peer pressure that undercuts excellence as uncool.
So I think all the commenters are right. Mostly, because Aaron McG is right!
And whether it’s the arts or the sciences, there are plenty of examples of blacks who have excelled only by achieving even higher than one ought to have to achieve in order to succeed.
The sad part is that there would have been even more successes by deserving blacks, if they had only needed to achieve equally; and we’ve all lost the contributions they would have been in a position to make. Just look at how we almost lost blood banking because Dr. Charles Drew wouldn’t invent some fake “scientific” excuse to set up separate blood banks for “black blood” and “white blood”. No white scientist would have been expected to do it.