Let me know what you guys think about what he is getting at. Would love to hear some of your view points

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=1512455

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Safetyblitz: I think the maker of Boondocks is saying out loud, what many of usis aleadythinking internally..that is, thata significant number of our own people have sold out not only on the struggle that got us our relative freedoms..but also that they have sold out their own community for thirty pieces of silver....for drugs, bling and music...

i respect him for taking on the some hard uncomfortable facts about ourselves

Err, i think him(Aaron) ending it withwhat J H Clark says about MLK makes sense. Its certainly the way i will remember MLK.

And the creator of the show did not come accross to me as just any idiot dissing yet again one of our great....i think he articulated his views very well.

Personally, I think this is the one show that should be watched by all African Americans. Now whether they understand it or not is a different story......

I don't order poison, I mean cable television <g>...wish I did so I could have watched.

From what I gathered, I think that the goals of African-Americans are rather nebulously defined by continuing to harp on MLK's dream. I certainly applaud McGruder for calling out our people for their indignance in regards to ourselves. However, what exactly does "living MLK's dream" mean today?

MLK wanted us to be able to work along side Whites in sometype of societal harmony, but how can that actually come to fruition? Better yet, is that what is really best for African-Americans, to continue pursuing what the White man has?..so the few of us that actually become wealthy move into White neighborhoods and buy all of our things from Whites which only increases their property values?

I don't know if this was even mentioned in sufficient detail in the Boondocks show, but we will always be subject to inferiority in the West until we have our own businesses in nearly all industries so that we do not need White people to supply us in every imaginable way in the West. Then and only then will we have leverage in a Western country, and in the world.

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What stood out for me in that interview was the message of apathy in the black community for the reasons you mentioned above. There is so much confusion around why we are in this position and where do we go from here?

That episode of the Boondocks has the most thought provoking story. People need to know how to find things on the net, it's as easy as google!