The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for March 27, 2014
March 26, 2014
March 28, 2014
Transcript:
Granddad: Now just calm down, boy. You're overreacting. Huey: Overreacting?! These people named an elementary school after J. Edgar Hoover and I'm overreacting? Am I the only person who's heard of "Cointelpro"? I mean, why Hoover? Why not, oh, Strom Thurmond? Or George Wallace, huh?! Granddad: I think they named the middle school after George Wallace... Huey: What?! Granddad: That was a joke, boy. Loosen up already. Huey: I hate this place...
My great-grandfather, and his brother, rode with Forrest’s raiders. They were captured by Yankees on the second day of their war effort, and taken to a prison camp in Pulaski. After a couple of days, they decided they had enough and walked out, going back home to the farm.
To offer a mild defense of Forrest – despite his famous bigotry – the KKK he founded was not nearly as vicious as the organization of the same name that evolved around the turn of the century. Another great-grandfather of mine was murdered by those rogues, kidnapped and shot. White folks were not immune.