I used to always questioned why would Rosa Parks day it was so big of a deal. Even kunta kinte during slave time said my name is kunta kinte when they tried to call him Toby it's more impressive to be rebellious during slavery then to be rebellious during segregation. That's practically easier. Or just as hard. Either way she's just one of many. Why the hell is she so famous? I can say kiss my ass cracka and anytime what I said it in the 1600s or I said it now
I always took that final bit with the newspaper and Huey going "It's fun to dream..." as suggesting that this entire episode was just a fantasy of Huey.
I always took it to mean that the revolution he spoke of never happened. That was, “the dream,” but not the reality. Seems like everything else happened, considering the paper showed MLK having died at 91 in Canada.
Interesting fact: The story of Grandpa not being observed for not giving up his seat was loosely based on Claudette Colvin. She was a teenager who was pregnant and refused to give up her seat, 8 months prior to Rosa parks. Her story wasn’t highlighted presumably by the Civil Rights movement because she was 15, pregnant and dark skinned compared to Rosa Parks who was fair skinned and much older than Claudette. The two did meet eventually as Rosa Parks mentored Claudette through the NAACP in the late 50’s
I'm not going to argue against the colorism because it may or may not be true. But from what I read, the main thing was she was pregnant. Because she would go down in history as a major figure, they thought a pregnant teen being the representative of the movement and a public figure would feed into the negative stereotypes of black people and especially women at the time instead of showing the opposite. Which Rosa better represented. Read "At the Dark End of The Street" for more context. The bus boycott was way more planned then people realize.
This also reflects a lot of issues in the American-Indian community as well. Every year someone tries to get propped up as the "Native American MLK" when a lot of outsiders don't really understand how divided we all are. So a lot of civil rights movements regarding Native Americans are usually squashed before they even begin. We of course have exceptions like NAAGPRA, but on the whole that inability to unite is what ultimately makes our communities lose hope.
This is honestly one of my favorite episodes of any show ever made. The political commentary on how MLK became more of a symbol and propaganda as opposed to a complex historical figure is just incredible writing.
That’s a perfect way of describing it. Although I suppose I wouldn’t call him “complex” in this episode as much as “too liberal” for a post-911, hyper-nationalist, borderline rabid America.
Gotta love the closeup after the line at 12:50 showing who's laughing and who isn't. This is that Dave Chappelle line about realizing who's laughing a bit too hard at the wrong part of the joke.
So a bit of background about Grandpa Freeman being mad at Rosa parks for stealing his thunder: there's actually some truth to it, she wasn't the first black woman to refuse to move to the back of the bus out of protest. Claudette Colvin along with 3 other black women refused to give up their seats almost a year before Rosa Parks much more publicized and famous protest, the reason they were not given recognition was because one of them was a frail woman in her 70s and Claudette was an unwedded pregnant teen. The NAACP like any other political group cares alot about their image and they believed these women would make poor faces for their movement and racial integration, Rosa on the other hand was an educated woman, "light skinned" (I'm not making that up btw, that was one of their criterias) married and a high ranking member of her local NAACP chapter so she made for a better representative in their eyes. Claudette Colvin holds resentment for how her own people purposefully pushed her and her comrades to the side for someone more marketable in Rosa Parks. Claudette was not invited to be at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture which holds an exhibit for the Montgomery bus boycott and when the Rosa Parks memorial museum opened in Montgomery to celebrate the anniversary Claudette was asked her toughts on it and she said: "They've already called it the Rosa Parks museum, so they've already made up their minds on what the story is." Her and her family have made it clear they do not want to replace Rosa Parks or have anything against her, only that when the Montgomery bus boycotts are discussed they don't just talk about Rosa but give recognition to the four women who made a stand a whole year prior
@@bendover7841 whether they were right then or not can be argued but to go 70 years later and still not acknowledging her and her comrades struggle for their cause is completely wrong and it shows blatant colorism, agesim and classism by the NAACP because the 4 women were old, young, poor or dark skinned they will not give them the proper honor they deserve
@@emanuelmartinez7267 Sucks to suck. A compelling story is more important than truth in creating a legacy and history. No one cares about some uneducated pregnant teen or a granny with one foot in the grave. It's all about image.
Rosa Parks didn't refuse to go to the back of the bus. She was already in the rear and the bus was full so when a white passenger got on, she was told to give up her seat which was against the law. Also Parks wasn't the original case but essentially recreated the same scenario a year later. She was an intellectual activist and had connections in the civil rights movement while the original woman was "common folk" and an unwed teen mother so NAACP leadership thought her case wouldn't sell as well.
@@JO-hs1ueI think because when you have all the money in the world and never have to worry about anything except your safety and mortality you want to plan for a major disaster and build an underground house like mark Zuckerberg did in Hawaii
This ep is so funny especially the Rosa Parks stuff with Granddad if you know the facts. Btw i damn near died when Ruckus said "I damn near shot you myself untill i realized the White man has better aim"😂
Yeah most people dont realize the "get kicked off a bus" thing was a set up by a group and they had tried multiple times by this point to create an uproar but a lot of times it fizzled out.
@@nullakjg767what was the lady name who has already did the same thing Rosa did before? But she was an unwed single mother or pregnant and unwed and the civil rights leaders didn't think she was a "good representation" and therfore went with Rosa as their "clean image" face of the movement.
In 1946 in Nova Scotia Canada a Black Business woman named Viola Desmond Car Broke down near New Glsgow Nova Scotia. As she was getting her cat fixed when decided to go see a movie, she sat in a whites only section and when they asked her to movie she refused. She ended up being arrested. Today she is on Canada's 10 Dollar bill, recognized as a pioneer of civil rights even though she had planned on being one, she wasn't an activist in the traditional way, she just stood up for what she believed in amd stood her ground in the moment, which might be even more impressive anyway she predates Sosa Parks by about 9 years
@@nullakjg767 the common story everyone is familiar with is actually a very sanitized one. they treat it like an american hero story of a random woman who was just too tired from a long day of work to give a shit about racism that day so you dont find out she was involved in civil rights way before that event.
The Rosa Parks thing is actually true. There were other black women who did the same thing before Rosa Parks, but the leaders of the Civil rights movement made Rosa their figurehead because she was lighter skinned
I don't think it was a skin color issue. But there was a prior incident involving a pregnant Black teenager. The leaders thought hers would be the wrong case to get involved in. Maybe waiting for a woman like Rosa Parks to be arrested was a case of respectability politics, but does that really matter now?
@@bladex264 The people involved certainly knew what went down. Unfortunately, they're all deceased by now. It's very presumptuous to assume skin color was the reason Rosa Parks was chosen. I'm well aware of the fact color prejudice exists within many non - white communities. But you can't just throw that out there without some facts to back it up.
@@MHO999999 History has been snuffed out countless times. Im not taking anything away from it, it's just that there are always important details left out, so we just go along with whatever information has been provided up till now. Also, my comment has nothing to do with skin color.
@@bladex264 The original comment I responded to claimed Rosa Parks was selected just because she was light - skinned. So, naturally I assumed you were defending that point also. The leaders chose a well respected local woman, over an unwed, pregnant teen. They're guilty of playing respectability politics and nothing else.
This is easily one of the best episodes out of the entire series and I like Aaron McGruder for putting focus on Huey's would be relationship with MLK considering that in the comics Huey heavily admired Malcolm X more. This episode was nothing but facts. Also the villain from LoTR Chris was struggling with was Grima Wormtongue 😂 Played by the great Brad Dourif aka Chucky.
I see there's already people harping on this episode because they can't understand that satire is going to take the extreme perspective and make it funny given that this is, now bear with me, a _comedy_
DJ Pooh produced a bunch of songs by Ice Cube (including It Was A Good Day), Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, 2Pac, Too Short, etc. He was also co-wrote and acted in Friday (he was Red). He co-wrote The Wash and Several Grand Theft Auto games, too. (and other songs).
20:10 The phrase Each One, Teach One is an African proverb that originated in the United States during slavery when Africans were denied education. When someone learned how to read or write, it became their responsibility to teach someone else. The idea is to spread knowledge for the betterment of your community. Google 🤷🏾♂️
Chris ain't wrong at 16:00 and Rage Against the Machine said it perfectly in Wake Up "You know the went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam, he turned the power to the have-nots and then came the shot". I love it when people are aware of this stuff.
In 1946 in Nova Scotia Canada a Black Business woman named Viola Desmond Car Broke down near New Glsgow Nova Scotia. As she was getting her cat fixed when decided to go see a movie, she sat in a whites only section and when they asked her to movie she refused. She ended up being arrested. Today she is on Canada's 10 Dollar bill, recognized as a pioneer of civil rights even though she had planned on being one, she wasn't an activist in the traditional way, she just stood up for what she believed in amd stood her ground in the moment, which might be even more impressive anyway she predates Sosa Parks by about 9 years
The comedy in this episode aged well. The message? A little more complicated. It points out how much of (conservative) media has projected their ideals onto the mythos of Dr. King. But the overtones of the episode, the last scene, and a lot of the early episodes lean heavily into respectability politics. It has that "if you stopped dancing so damn much, you'd have freedom" tone to it. Despite King's (and McGruder's) very left wing politics, it ironically leans into right wing bootstraps arguments. Even issues of addiction, (being a victim of) abuse, and Stockholm Syndrome are mocked or villainized (all the Whitney Houston jabs that were popular around the time) when it comes to black people. The first season (which I thoroughly enjoy) critiques the display of black society as displayed in the media; but there's like 3 black characters with any sense on the show and presents that as the reality that the one with sense (Huey) has to live in. Re: the leadership, MLK was basically chosen to be the leader of the biggest Civil Rights group (SCLC) so it's easier to digest and teach as him being "The civil rights guy" in schools. Not comprehensive but easier.
Fair point, respectability politics is usually a right-wing crutch. I guess I take King's speech at the end more as a commentary on lack of political engagement in the populus, and focusing on dumb distractions. Which is a problem we have as Americans overall anyway, but King saying like, you see the lack of prosperity for us, and complain about it, but you don't join together and rise up to overcome it. If the episode was written today they'd probably juxtapose the George Floyd protests and BLM with the TicTok generation doin weird shit like NPCs instead of using the incredible tech at their fingertips to organize and increase the youth vote and shit.
@@dojo999 Very true. That's a good perspective.I should've mentioned that every perspective we see from Huey doesn't have to be the writer's. Interestingly enough, i think Huey gets more distraught and hopeless in the political realm as the seasons progress.
This episode and the Hateocracy should be used for educational purposes in middle school. I'm not kidding. These episodes are vital to the world we currently live in.
4:36 *Suraj* You are correct, *Bill Maher's* current show is _Real Time,_ but before that he had a show called _Politically Incorrect._ 4:20 A surprisingly 2-dimensional take for you *Micky,* especially given *Maher* likely stands for 85-90% of the same things you do. Of course this is _the internet_ and there's no place for nuance here.
Supporting SAG unions when the very same Unions stripped Aaron McGruder of his series, forcing him to sell it to BET the very organization he spoke out the most against , in his episodes .
@bendover7841 like they wear the term " Normie " with pride but it's really an Insult, it's shameful to be so ignorant that you'd support things that aren't even in your best interests just to score Virtue points
this episode is hard as someone born on MLK's birthday who became an activist for 13 years and even worked with the Black Panthers & met Angela Davis. MLK would be upset today but he would try to center us again
Pretty much everything you could say the same thing for illegal immigrants coming into the US because the US had a lot to do with overthrowing Latin American governments and putting in place puppet leaders that force people to migrate North looking for work
The block is hot episode is quite serious and I don’t think y’all seen it yet in season 1. Honestly all the episodes are serious in this show but also hilarious
As a white dude, I don't really feel it's my place to criticize black culture, but let's face it. It's really not that different for anyone living under the rapidly deteriorating system of American capitalism. The funny thing is, both parties see it happening. The extremists on the Right see it as a "weakening of values" that call for the iron boot of facism and the extreme amongst the Left see it as condemnation of a market system in general and want to see communism implemented. When really, let's all be honest with each other here. If we all just stood up to the billionaires who rule this country and said: "No more. Give it back." They couldn't stop us. We could steer this country into a more equitable arrangement where the worker did own more of their labor and also had great healthcare and an education to help make the country strong. The idea isn't that crazy, but we have to get angry and go out and grab it. We're not going to get anything done debating identity politics over Twitter or winning skirmishes in a culture war. The billionaires will only relent if we demand as the masses that they do. There has to be enough of us that it doesn't matter that they own every company we work for and even own parts of the government and armed forces contracts. Don't let the rich trick you into thinking the guy who works alongside you but votes for a different president is the enemy. No one you know has any real power. It's time we change that.
I saw sorry to bother you almost a year before it was released and for some reason they only added one scene... I still don't understand why it took them so long to release it.
So we all know MLK day... Although what if, what if we had MILK day? A video of a gallon of chocolate milk giving the I have a dream speech except it's that I have a dream that white milk and chocolate milk will be served at the same lunch tables ... 😅
@@brandonspencer5594hey nobody is perfect his message and fight for equality and civil rights outweighed the rest nobody wants to drop to atomic bombs on civilians but it pretty much ended the war and saved millions of more lives because of it
My favorite small jab people probably didn't get as it's not entirely known unless you're just a nerd who reads about everything movie/TV making like I do. I find myself reading about some absolutely meaningless and interesting facts from 100yrs ago at times😂😂 but the "*Spike Lee was pissed*" at the MLK/Cuba Gooding biopic. It's making fun of Spike who directed the Malcom X biopic but he famously cried and bitched his was into the job. The original director was a white man Norman Jewison hilarious name to add to the irony of him directing the life story Muslim icon Malcom X though he isn't Jewish, he's a great director with tons of Oscar nods and whatnot under his belt. But Spike lead the protest that "a black person should be directing this!!!... btw *ahem* it's always been my dream to make this movie!!" 🤣🤣🤣 he made out like a civil rights leader himself while at the same time throwing himself in as the potential replacement. Norman obviously did bow out but not due to the protest itself but other reasons which even Spike confirmed. I always found that bit hilarious knowing how much of a crybaby Spike Lee is not taking anything away from his filmmaking genius but he yea he very well actually has been pissed at that same situation and probably would do the same thing again today if they announced a big MLK biopic with a with director.
7:56 Did they change it for TV?! I don’t remember him saying the n word! I remember him saying “Stay out of trouble, son.” Does anybody else remember that?
Oprah maybe black and she may be a woman and she may have been born poor however if you look into her business practices you will find that she has done some absolutely horrific things as a billionaire... Just saying don't vote for someone based on what they say and do on camera and instead always look into what they've actually done when the cameras are off to determine who they actually are. Just a reminder Ellen DeGeneres has been proven to be a horrible person to work for... Yet if you never saw any of that then you might be willing to vote for her for office.
question to Chris and Spydy "If Fredrick Douglas, Rosa Parks, Malcom X and MLK Jr, where alive today in the 21st century would they think about black community in the USA? How to fix it?"
Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, unless you are literally mocking it. It’s a sign of interest and respect of said culture. Come on…you all are smarter than that…🙄🤦🏻
It becomes offensive when it becomes a stereotype like when white people are running around Cinco de mayo with the stereotypical Mexican sombrero and fake a mustache and half the time they don't even know what Cinco de mayo is it's not Mexicos independence like just celebrate it with you're friends get drunk off of tequila eat some Mexican food you don't have to do the whole mustache thing just wear a cowboy hat because that's what Mexicans actually wear
I remember me and a friend talking about boondocks back when the 2020 elections were going on, since if Kamala won the show would have predicted a black female president. I think the show always has good commentary, but this was a very real episode, very good. Thanks for the reaction.
MLK Jr 🤝 JRR Tolkien
"Return of the King"
@Moksha_222it's just certain parts of the community.
Wormtongue.... it was Wormtongue.
I used to always questioned why would Rosa Parks day it was so big of a deal. Even kunta kinte during slave time said my name is kunta kinte when they tried to call him Toby it's more impressive to be rebellious during slavery then to be rebellious during segregation. That's practically easier. Or just as hard. Either way she's just one of many. Why the hell is she so famous? I can say kiss my ass cracka and anytime what I said it in the 1600s or I said it now
I literally used to hate on Rosa Parks
@@bendover7841 too many afraid to call out the dysfunctional behavior. You get called Uncle Tom or worse.
I always took that final bit with the newspaper and Huey going "It's fun to dream..." as suggesting that this entire episode was just a fantasy of Huey.
That's how I've always seen it. They definitely played with the imagination aspect of Huey's character a lot in the first season.
I always took it to mean that the revolution he spoke of never happened. That was, “the dream,” but not the reality.
Seems like everything else happened, considering the paper showed MLK having died at 91 in Canada.
Solide theory ngl
Wait... you guys know MLK wasn't in a coma right? He died in 1968 of that gunshot. So yes, the whole thing is a fantasy.
No shit
You gotta love that The Boondocks predicted the power of folding chairs.
Alabama stand up!
history repeats itself
Boondocks too strong with the Black Force
Frr 😂 and the whole Usher and Keke Palmer situation
HAVE A SEAT! 🪑🪑🪑😂😂
Interesting fact: The story of Grandpa not being observed for not giving up his seat was loosely based on Claudette Colvin. She was a teenager who was pregnant and refused to give up her seat, 8 months prior to Rosa parks. Her story wasn’t highlighted presumably by the Civil Rights movement because she was 15, pregnant and dark skinned compared to Rosa Parks who was fair skinned and much older than Claudette. The two did meet eventually as Rosa Parks mentored Claudette through the NAACP in the late 50’s
Teenaged woman is a crazy thing to say bro
@@mahershala4015 I was gonna say young woman but she was 15. Which is literally the mid point between being a teenager and a young woman. My bad 😂
@@mahershala4015she was woman enough to get pregnant at 15
@@bendover7841tf that got to do with anything
I'm not going to argue against the colorism because it may or may not be true. But from what I read, the main thing was she was pregnant. Because she would go down in history as a major figure, they thought a pregnant teen being the representative of the movement and a public figure would feed into the negative stereotypes of black people and especially women at the time instead of showing the opposite. Which Rosa better represented. Read "At the Dark End of The Street" for more context. The bus boycott was way more planned then people realize.
This also reflects a lot of issues in the American-Indian community as well. Every year someone tries to get propped up as the "Native American MLK" when a lot of outsiders don't really understand how divided we all are. So a lot of civil rights movements regarding Native Americans are usually squashed before they even begin. We of course have exceptions like NAAGPRA, but on the whole that inability to unite is what ultimately makes our communities lose hope.
Thank you. I learned something today.
It takes a lot for Huey to be the one to throw a chair. Love that moment
Not really .
Aaron McGruder plays the young version of Granddad in all of his appearances on the show
This is honestly one of my favorite episodes of any show ever made.
The political commentary on how MLK became more of a symbol and propaganda as opposed to a complex historical figure is just incredible writing.
That’s a perfect way of describing it. Although I suppose I wouldn’t call him “complex” in this episode as much as “too liberal” for a post-911, hyper-nationalist, borderline rabid America.
Now I wanna talk about Soul Plane...
The whole premise of this episode is brilliant
Gotta love the closeup after the line at 12:50 showing who's laughing and who isn't. This is that Dave Chappelle line about realizing who's laughing a bit too hard at the wrong part of the joke.
Yup
Yeah they not gone get it bro, they just like that crowd from the 1st episode
7:58
You can see everyone's shocked faces except for the only two black people on the couch....and Mickey lol
So a bit of background about Grandpa Freeman being mad at Rosa parks for stealing his thunder: there's actually some truth to it, she wasn't the first black woman to refuse to move to the back of the bus out of protest. Claudette Colvin along with 3 other black women refused to give up their seats almost a year before Rosa Parks much more publicized and famous protest, the reason they were not given recognition was because one of them was a frail woman in her 70s and Claudette was an unwedded pregnant teen. The NAACP like any other political group cares alot about their image and they believed these women would make poor faces for their movement and racial integration, Rosa on the other hand was an educated woman, "light skinned" (I'm not making that up btw, that was one of their criterias) married and a high ranking member of her local NAACP chapter so she made for a better representative in their eyes. Claudette Colvin holds resentment for how her own people purposefully pushed her and her comrades to the side for someone more marketable in Rosa Parks. Claudette was not invited to be at the opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture which holds an exhibit for the Montgomery bus boycott and when the Rosa Parks memorial museum opened in Montgomery to celebrate the anniversary Claudette was asked her toughts on it and she said: "They've already called it the Rosa Parks museum, so they've already made up their minds on what the story is." Her and her family have made it clear they do not want to replace Rosa Parks or have anything against her, only that when the Montgomery bus boycotts are discussed they don't just talk about Rosa but give recognition to the four women who made a stand a whole year prior
The NAACP made the right call.
@@bendover7841 ........ Whatever you say
@@bendover7841 whether they were right then or not can be argued but to go 70 years later and still not acknowledging her and her comrades struggle for their cause is completely wrong and it shows blatant colorism, agesim and classism by the NAACP because the 4 women were old, young, poor or dark skinned they will not give them the proper honor they deserve
@@emanuelmartinez7267 Sucks to suck. A compelling story is more important than truth in creating a legacy and history. No one cares about some uneducated pregnant teen or a granny with one foot in the grave. It's all about image.
@@icebox1954wtf. Bro this ain't a fucking anime. This is history. What's important is history is being told not how the history looks
Rosa Parks didn't refuse to go to the back of the bus. She was already in the rear and the bus was full so when a white passenger got on, she was told to give up her seat which was against the law.
Also Parks wasn't the original case but essentially recreated the same scenario a year later. She was an intellectual activist and had connections in the civil rights movement while the original woman was "common folk" and an unwed teen mother so NAACP leadership thought her case wouldn't sell as well.
Return of the King and also a return of the full cast for this series
Man idk about Oprah .. that whole Hawaii thing is a lil shady..
Fr, wtf does she need all that land for? Mark Zuckerberg too. What's up with that?
She was shady way before Hawaii
@@JO-hs1ueI think because when you have all the money in the world and never have to worry about anything except your safety and mortality you want to plan for a major disaster and build an underground house like mark Zuckerberg did in Hawaii
This ep is so funny especially the Rosa Parks stuff with Granddad if you know the facts.
Btw i damn near died when Ruckus said "I damn near shot you myself untill i realized the White man has better aim"😂
Yeah most people dont realize the "get kicked off a bus" thing was a set up by a group and they had tried multiple times by this point to create an uproar but a lot of times it fizzled out.
@@nullakjg767what was the lady name who has already did the same thing Rosa did before? But she was an unwed single mother or pregnant and unwed and the civil rights leaders didn't think she was a "good representation" and therfore went with Rosa as their "clean image" face of the movement.
@@alexanderthegreat5649 You're thinking of Claudette Colvin who on top of being pregnant out of wedlock she was a 15 year old child.
In 1946 in Nova Scotia Canada a Black Business woman named Viola Desmond Car Broke down near New Glsgow Nova Scotia. As she was getting her cat fixed when decided to go see a movie, she sat in a whites only section and when they asked her to movie she refused. She ended up being arrested. Today she is on Canada's 10 Dollar bill, recognized as a pioneer of civil rights even though she had planned on being one, she wasn't an activist in the traditional way, she just stood up for what she believed in amd stood her ground in the moment, which might be even more impressive anyway she predates Sosa Parks by about 9 years
@@nullakjg767 the common story everyone is familiar with is actually a very sanitized one. they treat it like an american hero story of a random woman who was just too tired from a long day of work to give a shit about racism that day so you dont find out she was involved in civil rights way before that event.
One of the best episodes of the whole show
Fax bruh 🤣🤣🤣
Yet another outstanding episode. I loved this episode when it first aired.
The Rosa Parks thing is actually true. There were other black women who did the same thing before Rosa Parks, but the leaders of the Civil rights movement made Rosa their figurehead because she was lighter skinned
I don't think it was a skin color issue. But there was a prior incident involving a pregnant Black teenager. The leaders thought hers would be the wrong case to get involved in. Maybe waiting for a woman like Rosa Parks to be arrested was a case of respectability politics, but does that really matter now?
@@MHO999999 who really knows what really went down?
@@bladex264 The people involved certainly knew what went down. Unfortunately, they're all deceased by now. It's very presumptuous to assume skin color was the reason Rosa Parks was chosen. I'm well aware of the fact color prejudice exists within many non - white communities. But you can't just throw that out there without some facts to back it up.
@@MHO999999 History has been snuffed out countless times. Im not taking anything away from it, it's just that there are always important details left out, so we just go along with whatever information has been provided up till now. Also, my comment has nothing to do with skin color.
@@bladex264 The original comment I responded to claimed Rosa Parks was selected just because she was light - skinned. So, naturally I assumed you were defending that point also. The leaders chose a well respected local woman, over an unwed, pregnant teen. They're guilty of playing respectability politics and nothing else.
If y’all didn’t know , the DJ from Wild’N Out known as DJ D-Wreck is the person rapping the into song.
It’s actually a rapper named “Asheru”. Dj d-wreck rapped the Danny phantom intro
This may be the best, or at least most iconic boondocks episode
I loved this episode. I'm going to canada😂😂. Yes, mickey, each one teach one is an africa proverb
This is easily one of the best episodes out of the entire series and I like Aaron McGruder for putting focus on Huey's would be relationship with MLK considering that in the comics Huey heavily admired Malcolm X more. This episode was nothing but facts. Also the villain from LoTR Chris was struggling with was Grima Wormtongue 😂 Played by the great Brad Dourif aka Chucky.
4:14 that was Bills show that got cancelled before the HBO deal real time is basically the uncensored version
My favorite monolog. Ever.
As Always Love Seeing Your Reactions Guy's 😊
I see there's already people harping on this episode because they can't understand that satire is going to take the extreme perspective and make it funny given that this is, now bear with me, a _comedy_
Chris doesn’t even realize he was lecturing him. 😂
DJ Pooh produced a bunch of songs by Ice Cube (including It Was A Good Day), Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, 2Pac, Too Short, etc. He was also co-wrote and acted in Friday (he was Red). He co-wrote The Wash and Several Grand Theft Auto games, too. (and other songs).
Swear Dj Pooh doesn't get enough credit for his work. He's part of the reason GTA IV was so successful.
Drip check, Chris with the Infared 6s, dope. I need those to drop again asap.🔥
20:10 The phrase Each One, Teach One is an African proverb that originated in the United States during slavery when Africans were denied education.
When someone learned how to read or write, it became their responsibility to teach someone else. The idea is to spread knowledge for the betterment of your community. Google 🤷🏾♂️
Chris ain't wrong at 16:00 and Rage Against the Machine said it perfectly in Wake Up "You know the went after King when he spoke out on Vietnam, he turned the power to the have-nots and then came the shot". I love it when people are aware of this stuff.
Thank you Chris for stuffing the ballot box 😂😂
In 1946 in Nova Scotia Canada a Black Business woman named Viola Desmond Car Broke down near New Glsgow Nova Scotia. As she was getting her cat fixed when decided to go see a movie, she sat in a whites only section and when they asked her to movie she refused. She ended up being arrested. Today she is on Canada's 10 Dollar bill, recognized as a pioneer of civil rights even though she had planned on being one, she wasn't an activist in the traditional way, she just stood up for what she believed in amd stood her ground in the moment, which might be even more impressive anyway she predates Sosa Parks by about 9 years
BEST SPEECH EVER AND MY PEOPLE NEED TO LISTEN
The comedy in this episode aged well. The message? A little more complicated. It points out how much of (conservative) media has projected their ideals onto the mythos of Dr. King. But the overtones of the episode, the last scene, and a lot of the early episodes lean heavily into respectability politics. It has that "if you stopped dancing so damn much, you'd have freedom" tone to it. Despite King's (and McGruder's) very left wing politics, it ironically leans into right wing bootstraps arguments. Even issues of addiction, (being a victim of) abuse, and Stockholm Syndrome are mocked or villainized (all the Whitney Houston jabs that were popular around the time) when it comes to black people. The first season (which I thoroughly enjoy) critiques the display of black society as displayed in the media; but there's like 3 black characters with any sense on the show and presents that as the reality that the one with sense (Huey) has to live in.
Re: the leadership, MLK was basically chosen to be the leader of the biggest Civil Rights group (SCLC) so it's easier to digest and teach as him being "The civil rights guy" in schools. Not comprehensive but easier.
That's because both things can be true at the same time which is a reality people hate to admit.
@@allmightylowercasejay1138 which two things are you referring to?
Fair point, respectability politics is usually a right-wing crutch.
I guess I take King's speech at the end more as a commentary on lack of political engagement in the populus, and focusing on dumb distractions. Which is a problem we have as Americans overall anyway, but King saying like, you see the lack of prosperity for us, and complain about it, but you don't join together and rise up to overcome it.
If the episode was written today they'd probably juxtapose the George Floyd protests and BLM with the TicTok generation doin weird shit like NPCs instead of using the incredible tech at their fingertips to organize and increase the youth vote and shit.
@@dojo999 Very true. That's a good perspective.I should've mentioned that every perspective we see from Huey doesn't have to be the writer's. Interestingly enough, i think Huey gets more distraught and hopeless in the political realm as the seasons progress.
its a comedy first and foremost so@@FireFx
Kevin Michael Richardson voiced Martin Luther King, Jr.
He was a menace as Principal Lewis 😂
I used to use that king speech as a monologue in high school
7:55 We lost Mickey for a bit there🤣🤣🤣🤣
I can’t wait for season 2 and 3 reactions
Ye those are great, but this season still has a passion of reverend ruckus episode XDD
This episode and the Hateocracy should be used for educational purposes in middle school. I'm not kidding. These episodes are vital to the world we currently live in.
4:36 *Suraj* You are correct, *Bill Maher's* current show is _Real Time,_ but before that he had a show called _Politically Incorrect._
4:20 A surprisingly 2-dimensional take for you *Micky,* especially given *Maher* likely stands for 85-90% of the same things you do. Of course this is _the internet_ and there's no place for nuance here.
Maher is pretty garbage tho. No one told me that. I witnessed his decline in real time.
@@ShardSpyder What do you like about Bill Maher?
1:04 It's 'Worm-tongue'. I don't know where he was getting the 'Grim' part from.
Grima Wormtongue, his grim probably came from Grima
Ah, makes sense. We got there in the end.@@daekry
@Chris 1:11 Grima Wormtongue
Supporting SAG unions when the very same Unions stripped Aaron McGruder of his series, forcing him to sell it to BET the very organization he spoke out the most against , in his episodes .
The irony is not lost on me at least.
@bendover7841 like they wear the term " Normie " with pride but it's really an Insult, it's shameful to be so ignorant that you'd support things that aren't even in your best interests just to score Virtue points
@@eno6712 This is the modern American way. The people who claim to fight for individuality force others to conform.
I hate saga so much!
So
Why would they do that to Aaron?
Oh dear you Americans are a bunch of weirdos😂
Y'all gotta watch the Black Dynamite cartoon once you're finished with the Boondocks
Dj Pooh is a famous west coast figure. Who most notably wrote the movie Friday with Ice Cube
12:50 why you cut to Chris, homie? Lmao
Rioting in D.C… if only they knew how accurate that became.
this episode is hard as someone born on MLK's birthday who became an activist for 13 years and even worked with the Black Panthers & met Angela Davis. MLK would be upset today but he would try to center us again
Opinion does not equal fact, it can be argued in his early 20s on certain socialized ideals, but not near the end of his life
I love the fact that everytime Dr. King speaks, it sounds like he's preaching. And Uncle Ruckus being a hilarious ol fool
An amazing episode
Navi's back !!!!
We watched My Friend Martin and Supersize Me religiously in school
"What album is that from?"
"All of them."
🤣🤣🤣
I thought Micky was going to say that Chris also threw a chair in the office.
9/11 was America's chickens coming home to roost.
Pretty much everything you could say the same thing for illegal immigrants coming into the US because the US had a lot to do with overthrowing Latin American governments and putting in place puppet leaders that force people to migrate North looking for work
Chris was thinking Grima Wormtongue. Suraj was probably thinking Denethor?
The block is hot episode is quite serious and I don’t think y’all seen it yet in season 1. Honestly all the episodes are serious in this show but also hilarious
Bayard Rustin… a queer black man was a key figure in organizing the march on Washington. Always left out of the convo bc of his sexuality.
man boondocks reactions are always going to be hilarious lhh
Kevin Micheal Richardson plays 99% of all black characters in American cartoons. He should be a billionaire for all the work he does.
As a white dude, I don't really feel it's my place to criticize black culture, but let's face it. It's really not that different for anyone living under the rapidly deteriorating system of American capitalism. The funny thing is, both parties see it happening. The extremists on the Right see it as a "weakening of values" that call for the iron boot of facism and the extreme amongst the Left see it as condemnation of a market system in general and want to see communism implemented.
When really, let's all be honest with each other here. If we all just stood up to the billionaires who rule this country and said: "No more. Give it back." They couldn't stop us. We could steer this country into a more equitable arrangement where the worker did own more of their labor and also had great healthcare and an education to help make the country strong. The idea isn't that crazy, but we have to get angry and go out and grab it. We're not going to get anything done debating identity politics over Twitter or winning skirmishes in a culture war. The billionaires will only relent if we demand as the masses that they do. There has to be enough of us that it doesn't matter that they own every company we work for and even own parts of the government and armed forces contracts. Don't let the rich trick you into thinking the guy who works alongside you but votes for a different president is the enemy. No one you know has any real power. It's time we change that.
Normally yes
Except there are hidden racist whites who have power and DO ensure Blacks STAY power and poverty stricken areas
Anyone capable of riding a bike or walking up stairs would have been better 2020
got the whole normies that is what the hell I'm talking about❤❤❤❤😂
So, please drop the link for that fire ass shirt that Chris has on.
I LOVE THIS EPISODE!!!
14:23 R.I.P Lance Reddick
I saw sorry to bother you almost a year before it was released and for some reason they only added one scene... I still don't understand why it took them so long to release it.
My favorite episode!!
Did Chris just call Marketa a "Ballot Box" 😂😂😂😂
How is there comments from 4 weeks ago?😳
I think its because they do early access
So we all know MLK day... Although what if, what if we had MILK day? A video of a gallon of chocolate milk giving the I have a dream speech except it's that I have a dream that white milk and chocolate milk will be served at the same lunch tables ... 😅
Easily still one of my favorite episodes to this day.
The first of many episodes that were banned or criticized. Mainly because of his ending speech. Yeah, MLK's family did not take too kindly to that
Sure they didn’t take kindly there daddy being exposed as a sex pest either 😂
@@brandonspencer5594hey nobody is perfect his message and fight for equality and civil rights outweighed the rest nobody wants to drop to atomic bombs on civilians but it pretty much ended the war and saved millions of more lives because of it
I come from a former communist country, so trust me when I say, that evil degeneracy is nothing to aspire to.
My favorite small jab people probably didn't get as it's not entirely known unless you're just a nerd who reads about everything movie/TV making like I do. I find myself reading about some absolutely meaningless and interesting facts from 100yrs ago at times😂😂 but the "*Spike Lee was pissed*" at the MLK/Cuba Gooding biopic.
It's making fun of Spike who directed the Malcom X biopic but he famously cried and bitched his was into the job. The original director was a white man Norman Jewison hilarious name to add to the irony of him directing the life story Muslim icon Malcom X though he isn't Jewish, he's a great director with tons of Oscar nods and whatnot under his belt. But Spike lead the protest that "a black person should be directing this!!!... btw *ahem* it's always been my dream to make this movie!!" 🤣🤣🤣 he made out like a civil rights leader himself while at the same time throwing himself in as the potential replacement. Norman obviously did bow out but not due to the protest itself but other reasons which even Spike confirmed. I always found that bit hilarious knowing how much of a crybaby Spike Lee is not taking anything away from his filmmaking genius but he yea he very well actually has been pissed at that same situation and probably would do the same thing again today if they announced a big MLK biopic with a with director.
9:45 Chris excited for violence against white man
12:29-13:20 Chris goes quiet as the show points out weaknesses within the black community lol
Yeah Chris was mad pressed lol I'm white and everything in this show is hilarious to me no point in being biased it's a waste of energy
1:00 Grima Wormtongue
Such an amazing episode...such a cringe reaction.
I never watch the post episode takes
7:56 Did they change it for TV?! I don’t remember him saying the n word! I remember him saying “Stay out of trouble, son.” Does anybody else remember that?
Grima Wormtongue
Oprah maybe black and she may be a woman and she may have been born poor however if you look into her business practices you will find that she has done some absolutely horrific things as a billionaire... Just saying don't vote for someone based on what they say and do on camera and instead always look into what they've actually done when the cameras are off to determine who they actually are.
Just a reminder Ellen DeGeneres has been proven to be a horrible person to work for... Yet if you never saw any of that then you might be willing to vote for her for office.
That is literally Bill Maher, his old show for many years was "Politically Incorrect."
The best boondocks episode
The movie showed that he grew up in that 😂😂😂. The movie 😂😂😂
Return of the King...
Return of Rana and Navi!!
Life is Good!!
Yeah i had to go read about The Black Panthers on my own 🤷🏻♂️ goddamn
question to Chris and Spydy
"If Fredrick Douglas, Rosa Parks, Malcom X and MLK Jr, where alive today in the 21st century would they think about black community in the USA? How to fix it?"
Malcolm X would despise it. That much I'm sure of. Fredrick Douglas I can't even imagine.
15:08 "i wish" god dammit Navi...I fear the message is lost on her
Mickey idk if anything can beat the My Hero moment lol.
who else is watching this episode on MLK day?
I love Bill Maher!!
this def isnt the last semi-serious ep theres def a lot more serious ep with undertones
Cultural appropriation isn’t a thing, unless you are literally mocking it. It’s a sign of interest and respect of said culture. Come on…you all are smarter than that…🙄🤦🏻
It becomes offensive when it becomes a stereotype like when white people are running around Cinco de mayo with the stereotypical Mexican sombrero and fake a mustache and half the time they don't even know what Cinco de mayo is it's not Mexicos independence like just celebrate it with you're friends get drunk off of tequila eat some Mexican food you don't have to do the whole mustache thing just wear a cowboy hat because that's what Mexicans actually wear
I remember me and a friend talking about boondocks back when the 2020 elections were going on, since if Kamala won the show would have predicted a black female president. I think the show always has good commentary, but this was a very real episode, very good. Thanks for the reaction.
Grima Wormtongue?
Return of the King. And he thought about Elvis and how he grew up black 😂😂😂