The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for April 22, 2015
April 21, 2015
April 23, 2015
Transcript:
Teacher #1: You gotta do it. It's February! Teacher #2: I can't teach black history?! I can't. What if I say the wrong thing and Huey attacks me? I think he's a communist, by the way! Teacher #1: Oh, that's hysterical, Petto. Seriously though... hey, you know I'm always there for you! I gotcha this book. It'll be a breeze. Teacher #2: "Black History for White Folks" by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ... Teacher #1: Did you know a black man invented peanut butter?
Squizzums over 9 years ago
This doesn’t seem like a book that Skip “Let’s-edit-out-Ben-Affleck’s-slave-owning-ancestry-because-he’s-a-famous-movie-star” Gates would write.
J Short over 9 years ago
Marcellus Gilmore Edson supposedly invented peanut butter.
geekboy_x over 9 years ago
That’s the point – it shouldn’t. The country was founded on human trafficking and institutionalized misery, it’t not a secret … but Ben found it neccessary to try and get that part edited out of his feature on PBS. As the poster above noted, it didn’t work. And now Ben realizes what a doofus move it was. There is much chagrin.