The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for June 28, 2021
June 27, 2021
June 29, 2021
Transcript:
Jazmine: Cindy, if you're going to be my best friend, then I think you should know my father is black. Cindy: No way!! You're black!!!??? Jazmine: Well, not really, my father is black... Cindy: But you don't look black! You're just a little tan, like Mariah Carey! Jazmine: Uh, she's half-black, too... Cindy: No way!! I wonder who else is black? What's wrong with me that I can't tell? Omygod!! Maybe I'm color-blind!!! Jazmine: Uh, I don't think so...
LesliePiper4 over 3 years ago
So it’s only the WORD that kind of doof is screwed up about, huh. Who’d a thought?
annebonny over 3 years ago
great way to be color blind
Ellis97 over 3 years ago
Poor Jazmine. Always having to go through racial identity issues.
Flatworm over 3 years ago
When it comes to race, shouldn’t everyone be color-blind?
christelisbetty over 3 years ago
We could try acknowledging differ shades of flesh, and celebrating the beauty of variety.
GreggW Premium Member over 3 years ago
For a while I didn’t know Mariah Carey was half-black (African-European?). A good reference anyway for visualizing what Jasmine’s complexion would be in real life.