The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for February 10, 2022
February 09, 2022
February 11, 2022
Transcript:
Huey: OK, Jazmine, if you're not black, then what are you, hmmm? Jazmine: Well, let's see... My mother is one-quarter Irish, one-quarter Swedish and one-half German, and my grandmother on my father's side is part Cherokee, and my grandfather is mostly French, I think, because he's originally from Louisiana, and his father was from Haiti, I believe, which makes me... Huey: Which makes you as black as Richard Roundtree in "Shaft in Africa." Jazmine: It does not!! And who is Richard Roundtree?
rossevrymn over 2 years ago
The old 1/32nd law in Louisiana, one of my first awakenings to race, when I was a kid, there was a lady who was fighting to get the law repealed.
Ellis97 over 2 years ago
Well Jazmine, Richard Roundtree is the world’s first “black action hero” and a former male model.
Teto85 Premium Member over 2 years ago
When the Klingons invade we will all be “human.”
GreggW Premium Member over 2 years ago
Richard Roundtree is biracial? Would never have guessed ;-)
Timothy Madigan Premium Member over 2 years ago
yeah! Richard Rountree’s Shaft looked vastly out of place in Africa, regardless of how they filmed it.