Nubian at Blac(k)ademic recently posted the Boondocks episode where Martin Luther King comes out of a coma to bring his new dream to a more contemporary time. This is not your grandfather's MLK. He is more like Bill Cosby without the Jello pudding pops.
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I love the boondocks. i only recently started to watch the show on Tv. but have been reading the comic strip for some time now.
I havent seen the whole episode but just the clip of the whole speech and people are getting caught up in the asthetics of the issue. It isnt a class issue cause i go to college and the children of middle class blacks act just like lower class blacks, it is a generational thing.
my grandmother who was never middle class repeats a lot of the things cosby or the fictional "MLK" said they all go on about how this generation uses the term nigga for enderament when it was a term used to try to dehumanize us. They cant understand it and I bet if we had been alive through what they have been alive through we wouldnt either
It time we stop calling everyone who is critical of some of the nihilistic African American tendencies a hater, our forefathers knew this country had a tendency to get its head stuck up its own ass and had no problem of reminding it over and over again that it wasnt shit.
And lets be real most people say that the middle class left us lower class blacks behind in their seeking of that money, and thats true. But that money was always the "prize" they had their eyes. integration and assimilation were suppose to be just means to that monetary end. But somewhere along the line they lost that wisdom.
P.S the speech was ok but I dont think MLK would go to Canada. He was to heroic for that.
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