This was an excellent analysis. For Cindy I feel like part of her tough exterior comes from the stuff her mum does to keep them afloat as referenced by Riley in the basketball game. Usually girls who are products of such environments either become like their mum or become complete opposites. I think it’s the latter for her, she probably wants to become the type of her who gets hers via her own merit and not being given to her. She probably saw her mum get disrespected by the men she deals with and doesn’t want any of that for herself. I feel if the show continued we’d have seen her sort of grow out of the wannabe gangster persona and morph into a girl boss like figure.
I always got the feeling that Cindy was the product of a marriage that was all show and no substance, with her mother being in an unfulfilling marriage. Hence why we hear the rumor of her mother giving head for drug fixes in bathrooms. While Jasmine actually had a loving family despite the hiccups and issues.
The comic strip went more over Jasmine's racial identity stuff, but it faced pushback from people claiming that McGruder hated biracial people and interracial couples, as well as claims that he supported Huey over Tom in how Jasmine should perceive herself. The pilot script went over this, with kids mocking Jasmine's hair and her mom not knowing how to manage it. Figured Mcgruder didn't want to face that again with a tv series shown to millions over a newspaper strip. So to tone down Jasmine's race identity stuff.
@Icarlyfan44 In America, race does determine how others see you and expect of you. Like if you're black, you're expected to know rap and hip hop and to be good at basketball, if you're asian, you're expected to be a straight A student. It can also affect how others see themselves, like are they "black/asian/native enough?". For the strips of Jasmine, she resents Huey labeling her as black as she says she's an individual and faces Cindy glamourizing the idea of blackness in media. Showing that just saying you're an individual may not work when the world labels you this or that. So race will be part of one's identity whether they like it or not
I do know that race is a social construct, there are countries where Jasmine would count as white, just as how someone from an African nation would view the Freemans as americans and not fellow black people. I was mentioning race identity as how one perceives themselves and how others perceived and treat them.
Its possible. He still got heat for the cartoon series despite that. His take on issues doesnt take a side really and saterizes both sides instead of demonizing the one. So hes bound to piss some ppl off
@ohplease6865 As a white passing mixed race kid, she would easily be considered white by the standards of many African and afro-carribean nations as there, having lightly tanned skin makes you considered white by their standards as you aren't super dark skinned and even having black parents/grandparents don't make you considered black. Because of how many nations are predominantly Black, having predominantly white ancestry makes one white, not black there. In Haiti, slave offspring weren't considered slaves and could own slaves. In South Africa, people like Jasmine are considered white and would have more power and privilege over dark skinned people. Just that in America' she's considered black, in other places, she's white. Race is a social construct, and what makes one black/white depends on where you are.
I can relate to Jasmine a lot. I did not grow up well off, actually quite poor, but my parents lied about where we lived and would drive me to a nice school district. My cousins and other relatives would always give me shit for "sounding white", but kids at school would call me Dora the Explorer and point out my hair since it became very curly when I got into middle school. The USA is a weird place
It’s just built on the idea of race (and internalized racism) at heart. Identifiers seem to bring you closer to one racial group or another but only through the rules of the dominant society.
I lived in a predominated Polish descended area, and I was of very strong German descent. The boys would beat me up and call me Nazi. I never once supported nazism, nor made any indication of such. My paternal side worked in the factories in Detroit making war material for WW2. Doesn't matter. I wasn't them, so I was an enemy. Villages are isolated sections of peculiar bigotry, I've found.
It is funny that you think this is a uniquely American thing. Things that different get noticed by children and they can be mean. Do you think in countries where people are very similar they don't get mocked of made fun of for their differences?
@@iBleed_RoyLty4368 People make fun of things that are different than what they are use to. Even if everyone had the exact same skin people would find something to make fun of especially as kids. Your eyebrows might be weird or you're short.
@@havingfun-u4g It is funny YOU think they think this is a uniquely American thing. They merely pointed out how weird their experience was growing up where they did, which you reduced down to kids are cruel and mean and would have made fun of something or another🙄
@@ClockworkCrusader “weak” is used here as describing hysterical laughter. It’s fine this way. Though without the emoji, it would’ve looked weird to read. 😂
i thought jasmine was more so in denial of her blackness, and huey was having a “if the shoe fits” take (comic) like if you have 3b-4c hair you’re likely black, wild people thought he hated biracial people.
It's a very interesting biracial story to choose... Since most biracial black people live in black communities with working class white or latino parents
@@fictionalmind-bending3224 I think there’s some merit to that as some that are mixed often deny one side of their racial identity. While eventually growing to acknowledge the “best of both worlds”, they still get flak from people when they deny. Where Jasmine did so in the comic strip, we had Huey who’s basically like, “but, nobody will see that”. I think that’s an interesting dynamic in any discussion about biracial people.
I don't deny being mixed, only denial comes from some white people telling me I ain't white enough, or some black people saying I ain't black enough. (The hair argument applies for reference, I have type 4 hair, could either be B or C) I just gave up and chose to be me at that point. It was a confusing year though.
I always interpreted Jasmine as a character that shares all of Huey’s values but just hasn’t been radicalized. In many ways she’s naive, but she’s also able to see the bigger picture a little more clearly because her perspective isn’t tinted by an extremist worldview.
Thank you so much for this video. I'm caucasian but adopted, so there's cryptic lineage issues that I relate to in hip-hop and black culture. I've been living with the influence of hip-hop near me since I was 4 and for a long time I've strived really hard to not be that "fly for a white guy" character, but there's so much depth to it. I see so much of the wigger affect in me and people around me, especially in people who would deny it - most people say that to disassociate from their appropriation of black culture, so they can say "fo shizzle" but not get in trouble with white folk. Go watch Good Morning Vietnam and tell me what young people would think of that movie - they'd probably call it racist, when it was trying really hard to be the opposite. It's because it tried too hard to normalize white people just acting like black folks without really understanding them. But I also see black friends and neighbors who have some white affect to them and I can tell they're ashamed of it sometimes, and I don't think they really should be. We all are a product of the environment we're raised into, and that includes TV and movies for the millenial generation. That shaped us in a big way, and that includes exposure to black culturespecifically through the TV lens. Boondocks was a massive win for exposing people to the real depth of black issues, and the end result is a few YTs like my and What The Dirt who think we know a little bit more than everyone else about this stuff, for better or worse. I call that Bubba Hotep syndrome - white guy who thinks he knows more about black stuff than other people, and manages to embarrass himself. It's a struggle though, to be truly self-aware about it - you have to accept that some people will clown you for trying, and that you will make mistakes because ultimately it's a commitment to shadow work, the most difficult aspect of therapy. Helping people understand their identity in a mixed race world is going to be the future of race discussions, and here's hoping we move into it gracefully. I don't like people saying "wigger" just because it lets them get away with the hard R, that doesn't really help people.
WHITE EFFECT????!!!! SIR BLK IS WHO WE ARE NOT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BE. Do a lot of black people like hip hop yes but not all for a person who says he grew up in Black culture and with black people you clearly missed the mark and understanding that we're not a monolith this African diaspora has so many different cultures styles music ways of life and speaking in a a v e and listening to hip-hop it's just the tip of the iceberg
As a “White” Black guy, I see it. I’m cool with many White people who’ve grown up or been around the brothers and sisters and learned a thing or two about and adopted Black culture. While we didn’t have a name for that, we adopted and changed one that referred to the opposite. Of course, that would be the “coon”. I’ve only noticed “wigger” and that’s just due to a wiki search a few years ago. I’ve noticed that the term has been used less in these times as we just tend to ignore the fact that they’re White at all, and in turn just make light of the fact (the reason “invited to the cookout” became so popular, or people giving WWE superstar Cody Rhodes Black names for examples). I think similar things happen with the mixed racial sphere, as well.
Adopting a culture doesn't make someone racist. Jesus people miss use that word today. If you don't think another race is inferior to another than you are not a racist. Even if you make jokes about fried chicken and water melon.
Ffs their is no such thing as cultural appropriation it isn’t a serious issue at all. their is no Latino who cares a white guy dresses up with a sombrero or poncho for Halloween. St Patrick’s day same with pizza were invented in America. Ireland adopted st Patrick’s day because so many Americans tourists were bummed Ireland doesn’t celebrate it. Likewise during ww2 American Italian gi’s reintroduced pizza to Italians who made bank from it. Spam is huge in Asia again American gi’s. anime is huge in America. The first Japanese animators went to Walt Disney learned animation and realized cutting half the frames made it cheap. Now a cultural influence on American teens. Cajun comes from Canadian refugees Acadians who instead of fishing cod fished gators in Florida and used French cooking, and when Spain took over introduced Spanish cuisine as well which influenced southern bbq. Portugal alone influenced cooking all throughout Asia and South America. People are more than just a single monoculture because culture constantly changes. I dare anyone to read Beowulf in old English and say it’s perfectly legible. Britain has Celtic, Latin, Nordic, French, influences which have permanently changed society. Unfortunately British food is still boring af. White and black culture are more than just black or white they too constantly change. If you are rural black or white you have more in common than a New Yorker.
I feel like Cindy is also a mirror to hold up against Riley. Someone who is similar but physically opposite and born and raised different. They both are similar and try to be tough and act like what they think they're supposed to vs the reality that keeps pushing itself onto them. Maybe they're happiness isn't the perceived media or culture they so gladly enjoy thinking how the world is supposed to be and how to act compared to what they're in. Especially when pushed against a wall.
Riley got alot of gangster shit off idk if you can really call that a fraud and he from Chicago and Cindy just took alot of inspiration of gangster shit just cause you not from the trenches doesn’t mean you’re not bout it
Nah Riley is about it at only 8 years old, he just knows there’s shit he actually can’t do like fight Huey without losing. I can’t say the same for Cindy. Like, her only opp was a girl selling cookies on her block. 😂
Man I like at the beginning when you pointed out the increase in mixed people in the 00s. I stg I was the only one around in the (a gross overstatement). It’s been interesting to see us being so over represented nowadays.
Sorry if the English is bad, most of it is translated; I don't understand the biracial thing, I know it's something from North America excluding Mexico I think, but it sounds like Spanish castes from the 17th and 18th centuries during the viceroyalty. My father is black and mother is a white mestiza, but that's not so wow in my life, I have a family with a tree of mixtures from natives from the mountain ranges to the Amazon, Europeans, Asians, Middle Easterners and blacks. My cousin studied medicine in the United States, she told me that she is in an African-American group at her university and she told me about the issue of biracial and how it felt so strange, that they pointed it out so much when it was the norm where we live, so that a large part of the population considers themselves mestizos because we are a combination of worlds. It's a topic that interests me, and I really would like to understand it in some way.
I think it’s an American phenomenon because we’re all immigrants here so it’s more like asking ‘Where are your grandparents from? What makes you unique here? What’s your combination of ethnicities?’ Whereas I imagine other places in the world may not be as diverse? Just my guess
@@SA2004YG that’s fair, I also live on the East Coast, where everybody is mixed, but I have friends in Florida that say that racism is still very prevalent and that people self segregate. I’ll never understand it, I love not living in a bubble, where everybody is the same
@fictionalmind-bending3224 No, they seem related to the Wiggas you talk about in this video when talking about Jasmine or Cindy. Wannabes that act like, well, Riley.
@@mileslugo6430 They didnt hit me as hard in terms of being meta for something as much as the other 2. Thats just me tho. Ed and Gin come off more as comedy and at best rep disgruntled combat vets from the 00's -2010's wars
Personally I’m still waiting on Caesar to show up. He was from the comics and was Huey’s best friend. It would be interesting to see him challenge Huey on an intellectual level and be more optimistic about life and philosophy.
I am Brazilian , and what the heck is the problem with two people of different etnicity marring? What is so special about this? is even somewhat racist to point this out.
@@gscsilvavaladares7065 Well, that’s because some American states had laws that prevented interracial marriage until 1967. The reasons for which spanned from: racist propaganda, white supremacy, slavery, economic exploitation, colonialism and eugenics movements.
Same me too bro I’m treated black because of my phenotype but but my hair is really curly so people point that out and when I speak Spanish people become really confused (because so called “black guys” can’t be bilingual I guess) that’s when they finally be like “Are you Cuban ?” And then they treat me in a weird “ You’re black but not like us black way” so I honestly just don’t bring up my heritage or speak Spanish I front of my black friends unless necessary
Its interesting people thinking Aaron hated biracials- opposite in that he is quoted to firmly believe mixed people are Black and points that all Black Americans are mixed at some point. Cindy got depth in the show, where she was just the voice of an ignorant micro aggressing suburban child. Now Sarah changed a lot in the show, where she doesn’t always know how to handle race issues but is a civil rights attorney- while Sarah in the show is a snow bunny.
You mean Sarah in the comic is a attorney? I don't remember her being attorney in show And yeah Sarah is black American biracial blacks are black american they are part of the ethnicity as are geechee and creoles
It would be amazing if the creator did a sequel with the Freeman brothers being adults and having kids with their respective "ships." The stories of the new generation.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show, but I always saw Riley calling women “bitches” and “hoes” because all he saw from women was them using their sexuality to gain power/goods. There’s an entire episode where their grandfather gets taken in by one such woman and both kids are disgusted by her. Cindy was the first woman Riley RESPECTED because she didn’t use those means. Their personality was very much the same. He didn’t call her one because she didn’t act like one. She changed his polarizing view on women by introducing a new world view. Her very existence challenged his bigoted way of seeing women. All women=hoes Cindy is not a hoe, therefore all women cannot be hoes. This very simple change in his world view allowed his character growth. Sure one could argue Jasmin could have done the same, but from Riley’s view, she wasn’t any better. He didn’t respect her. She was timid, self conscious and often shown as naive. She also had a strong family in the picture, something that Riley didn’t have. He couldn’t relate to her and most likely figured when she grew up her personality would become the same as all the other women he saw and knew. So definitely agree with many of your points.
I get what they were going for with Jazmine's character but she always annoyed me. I never enjoy her episodes and imo she has NO redeeming qualities to make her enjoyable
This was an excellent analysis. For Cindy I feel like part of her tough exterior comes from the stuff her mum does to keep them afloat as referenced by Riley in the basketball game. Usually girls who are products of such environments either become like their mum or become complete opposites. I think it’s the latter for her, she probably wants to become the type of her who gets hers via her own merit and not being given to her. She probably saw her mum get disrespected by the men she deals with and doesn’t want any of that for herself. I feel if the show continued we’d have seen her sort of grow out of the wannabe gangster persona and morph into a girl boss like figure.
It would be nice if we actually got a look at her home life instead of just having to assume by anything about her family that gets mentioned.
In the comics she was a preppy white girl with an obsession with black people @@Neku628
See I knew she reminded me of Cindy from Jimmy Neutron
I always got the feeling that Cindy was the product of a marriage that was all show and no substance, with her mother being in an unfulfilling marriage. Hence why we hear the rumor of her mother giving head for drug fixes in bathrooms. While Jasmine actually had a loving family despite the hiccups and issues.
It's not most girls IT'S EVERY CHILD REGARDLESS OF GENDER
The comic strip went more over Jasmine's racial identity stuff, but it faced pushback from people claiming that McGruder hated biracial people and interracial couples, as well as claims that he supported Huey over Tom in how Jasmine should perceive herself. The pilot script went over this, with kids mocking Jasmine's hair and her mom not knowing how to manage it. Figured Mcgruder didn't want to face that again with a tv series shown to millions over a newspaper strip. So to tone down Jasmine's race identity stuff.
@Icarlyfan44 In America, race does determine how others see you and expect of you. Like if you're black, you're expected to know rap and hip hop and to be good at basketball, if you're asian, you're expected to be a straight A student. It can also affect how others see themselves, like are they "black/asian/native enough?". For the strips of Jasmine, she resents Huey labeling her as black as she says she's an individual and faces Cindy glamourizing the idea of blackness in media. Showing that just saying you're an individual may not work when the world labels you this or that. So race will be part of one's identity whether they like it or not
I do know that race is a social construct, there are countries where Jasmine would count as white, just as how someone from an African nation would view the Freemans as americans and not fellow black people. I was mentioning race identity as how one perceives themselves and how others perceived and treat them.
Its possible. He still got heat for the cartoon series despite that. His take on issues doesnt take a side really and saterizes both sides instead of demonizing the one. So hes bound to piss some ppl off
@@leroypreston2973in what country would she count as white?🤦🏽♀️
@ohplease6865 As a white passing mixed race kid, she would easily be considered white by the standards of many African and afro-carribean nations as there, having lightly tanned skin makes you considered white by their standards as you aren't super dark skinned and even having black parents/grandparents don't make you considered black. Because of how many nations are predominantly Black, having predominantly white ancestry makes one white, not black there. In Haiti, slave offspring weren't considered slaves and could own slaves. In South Africa, people like Jasmine are considered white and would have more power and privilege over dark skinned people. Just that in America' she's considered black, in other places, she's white. Race is a social construct, and what makes one black/white depends on where you are.
I can relate to Jasmine a lot. I did not grow up well off, actually quite poor, but my parents lied about where we lived and would drive me to a nice school district. My cousins and other relatives would always give me shit for "sounding white", but kids at school would call me Dora the Explorer and point out my hair since it became very curly when I got into middle school. The USA is a weird place
It’s just built on the idea of race (and internalized racism) at heart. Identifiers seem to bring you closer to one racial group or another but only through the rules of the dominant society.
I lived in a predominated Polish descended area, and I was of very strong German descent. The boys would beat me up and call me Nazi. I never once supported nazism, nor made any indication of such. My paternal side worked in the factories in Detroit making war material for WW2. Doesn't matter. I wasn't them, so I was an enemy. Villages are isolated sections of peculiar bigotry, I've found.
It is funny that you think this is a uniquely American thing. Things that different get noticed by children and they can be mean. Do you think in countries where people are very similar they don't get mocked of made fun of for their differences?
@@iBleed_RoyLty4368 People make fun of things that are different than what they are use to. Even if everyone had the exact same skin people would find something to make fun of especially as kids. Your eyebrows might be weird or you're short.
@@havingfun-u4g It is funny YOU think they think this is a uniquely American thing. They merely pointed out how weird their experience was growing up where they did, which you reduced down to kids are cruel and mean and would have made fun of something or another🙄
Cindy McPherson had me weak on that Fundraiser episode.😂
What did bro mean by this
@@noobmaster258laughing
Phrasing PHRASING
Tara Did A GREAT Job
@@ClockworkCrusader “weak” is used here as describing hysterical laughter. It’s fine this way. Though without the emoji, it would’ve looked weird to read. 😂
i thought jasmine was more so in denial of her blackness, and huey was having a “if the shoe fits” take (comic) like if you have 3b-4c hair you’re likely black, wild people thought he hated biracial people.
It was hard to tell with him sometimes in the earlier eps
It's a very interesting biracial story to choose... Since most biracial black people live in black communities with working class white or latino parents
@@fictionalmind-bending3224 I think there’s some merit to that as some that are mixed often deny one side of their racial identity. While eventually growing to acknowledge the “best of both worlds”, they still get flak from people when they deny. Where Jasmine did so in the comic strip, we had Huey who’s basically like, “but, nobody will see that”. I think that’s an interesting dynamic in any discussion about biracial people.
Eh
I don't deny being mixed, only denial comes from some white people telling me I ain't white enough, or some black people saying I ain't black enough. (The hair argument applies for reference, I have type 4 hair, could either be B or C)
I just gave up and chose to be me at that point. It was a confusing year though.
I always interpreted Jasmine as a character that shares all of Huey’s values but just hasn’t been radicalized. In many ways she’s naive, but she’s also able to see the bigger picture a little more clearly because her perspective isn’t tinted by an extremist worldview.
Those two were always some of the most interesting characters because they were very reminiscent of how real people are
They might've been based on real people. Huey was.
This show really needs to come back. I feel like it's needed more now than it was when it came out.
Aaron confirmed new content is coming
@@rubymeaddleholy shamoly. It’s a Black Woman President Jasmine DuBois?
@@rubymeaddle nope, it was said already that its cancelled
It really dosent just go watch reruns like grandad is dead unfortunately and nobody can replace him
This generation can’t handle this show. They would cancel it and try to off Aaron after the first episode.
they were supposed to be best friends I don't know why they changed it in the series
that image at 6:51 just made me sad that we never got Ceaser in animated form, but great video and great analysis!
HE'S FROM BROOKLYN!!
Do the homie! Do the homie!
I think the entire show is a good exploration of this cultural diffusion.
True
Thank you so much for this video. I'm caucasian but adopted, so there's cryptic lineage issues that I relate to in hip-hop and black culture. I've been living with the influence of hip-hop near me since I was 4 and for a long time I've strived really hard to not be that "fly for a white guy" character, but there's so much depth to it. I see so much of the wigger affect in me and people around me, especially in people who would deny it - most people say that to disassociate from their appropriation of black culture, so they can say "fo shizzle" but not get in trouble with white folk. Go watch Good Morning Vietnam and tell me what young people would think of that movie - they'd probably call it racist, when it was trying really hard to be the opposite. It's because it tried too hard to normalize white people just acting like black folks without really understanding them. But I also see black friends and neighbors who have some white affect to them and I can tell they're ashamed of it sometimes, and I don't think they really should be. We all are a product of the environment we're raised into, and that includes TV and movies for the millenial generation. That shaped us in a big way, and that includes exposure to black culturespecifically through the TV lens. Boondocks was a massive win for exposing people to the real depth of black issues, and the end result is a few YTs like my and What The Dirt who think we know a little bit more than everyone else about this stuff, for better or worse. I call that Bubba Hotep syndrome - white guy who thinks he knows more about black stuff than other people, and manages to embarrass himself. It's a struggle though, to be truly self-aware about it - you have to accept that some people will clown you for trying, and that you will make mistakes because ultimately it's a commitment to shadow work, the most difficult aspect of therapy. Helping people understand their identity in a mixed race world is going to be the future of race discussions, and here's hoping we move into it gracefully. I don't like people saying "wigger" just because it lets them get away with the hard R, that doesn't really help people.
WHITE EFFECT????!!!! SIR BLK IS WHO WE ARE NOT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO BE. Do a lot of black people like hip hop yes but not all for a person who says he grew up in Black culture and with black people you clearly missed the mark and understanding that we're not a monolith this African diaspora has so many different cultures styles music ways of life and speaking in a a v e and listening to hip-hop it's just the tip of the iceberg
@@albertamathurin7084 There’s a lot of things in White culture that Black people have taken in. We must admit that, firstly.
As a “White” Black guy, I see it. I’m cool with many White people who’ve grown up or been around the brothers and sisters and learned a thing or two about and adopted Black culture. While we didn’t have a name for that, we adopted and changed one that referred to the opposite. Of course, that would be the “coon”. I’ve only noticed “wigger” and that’s just due to a wiki search a few years ago.
I’ve noticed that the term has been used less in these times as we just tend to ignore the fact that they’re White at all, and in turn just make light of the fact (the reason “invited to the cookout” became so popular, or people giving WWE superstar Cody Rhodes Black names for examples). I think similar things happen with the mixed racial sphere, as well.
Adopting a culture doesn't make someone racist. Jesus people miss use that word today. If you don't think another race is inferior to another than you are not a racist. Even if you make jokes about fried chicken and water melon.
Ffs their is no such thing as cultural appropriation it isn’t a serious issue at all. their is no Latino who cares a white guy dresses up with a sombrero or poncho for Halloween. St Patrick’s day same with pizza were invented in America. Ireland adopted st Patrick’s day because so many Americans tourists were bummed Ireland doesn’t celebrate it. Likewise during ww2 American Italian gi’s reintroduced pizza to Italians who made bank from it. Spam is huge in Asia again American gi’s. anime is huge in America. The first Japanese animators went to Walt Disney learned animation and realized cutting half the frames made it cheap. Now a cultural influence on American teens. Cajun comes from Canadian refugees Acadians who instead of fishing cod fished gators in Florida and used French cooking, and when Spain took over introduced Spanish cuisine as well which influenced southern bbq. Portugal alone influenced cooking all throughout Asia and South America. People are more than just a single monoculture because culture constantly changes. I dare anyone to read Beowulf in old English and say it’s perfectly legible. Britain has Celtic, Latin, Nordic, French, influences which have permanently changed society. Unfortunately British food is still boring af. White and black culture are more than just black or white they too constantly change. If you are rural black or white you have more in common than a New Yorker.
And both their parents facing marriage problems
I feel like Cindy is also a mirror to hold up against Riley. Someone who is similar but physically opposite and born and raised different. They both are similar and try to be tough and act like what they think they're supposed to vs the reality that keeps pushing itself onto them. Maybe they're happiness isn't the perceived media or culture they so gladly enjoy thinking how the world is supposed to be and how to act compared to what they're in. Especially when pushed against a wall.
Cindy and riley are perfect for each other both are frauds.
Riley got alot of gangster shit off idk if you can really call that a fraud and he from Chicago and Cindy just took alot of inspiration of gangster shit just cause you not from the trenches doesn’t mean you’re not bout it
Along with Huey and Jasmine.
Nah Riley is about it at only 8 years old, he just knows there’s shit he actually can’t do like fight Huey without losing. I can’t say the same for Cindy. Like, her only opp was a girl selling cookies on her block. 😂
@@iBleed_RoyLty4368 I mean, she was clearly with the shits when the Brits rolled through threatening her to stop selling lol
@@teewhy2747they not from the trenches nor are they about it. Riley is all bark no bite
Man I like at the beginning when you pointed out the increase in mixed people in the 00s. I stg I was the only one around in the (a gross overstatement). It’s been interesting to see us being so over represented nowadays.
Jasmine will end up as Huey's wife. Cindy will end up as Riley's baby momma.
The Boondocks was so peak man. In another reality it came back and was thriving we just got unlucky here 😢
Sorry if the English is bad, most of it is translated; I don't understand the biracial thing, I know it's something from North America excluding Mexico I think, but it sounds like Spanish castes from the 17th and 18th centuries during the viceroyalty.
My father is black and mother is a white mestiza, but that's not so wow in my life, I have a family with a tree of mixtures from natives from the mountain ranges to the Amazon, Europeans, Asians, Middle Easterners and blacks.
My cousin studied medicine in the United States, she told me that she is in an African-American group at her university and she told me about the issue of biracial and how it felt so strange, that they pointed it out so much when it was the norm where we live, so that a large part of the population considers themselves mestizos because we are a combination of worlds.
It's a topic that interests me, and I really would like to understand it in some way.
I think it’s an American phenomenon because we’re all immigrants here so it’s more like asking ‘Where are your grandparents from? What makes you unique here? What’s your combination of ethnicities?’
Whereas I imagine other places in the world may not be as diverse? Just my guess
Its a bigger deal here because racial mixing is a relatively new phenomenon and people are still grappling with it
@@SA2004YG that’s fair, I also live on the East Coast, where everybody is mixed, but I have friends in Florida that say that racism is still very prevalent and that people self segregate. I’ll never understand it, I love not living in a bubble, where everybody is the same
@@JENNIFAFAA if everyone keeps mixing then we will be all the same 😂
@@SA2004YG there are too many people on earth for that to ever be a real fear
Wigga lore is crazy
Cindy is what got me started playing in the snow
Cartoon characters do be having that effect on people.
Nah frfr
they probably would have been bestfriends, but Jazmine's mom probably forbid them from hanging out
Cindy deserved more screentime.
Where does like the Ed Wuncler and Gin Rimy fit into this?
For this specific topic, not much
@fictionalmind-bending3224 No, they seem related to the Wiggas you talk about in this video when talking about Jasmine or Cindy. Wannabes that act like, well, Riley.
@@mileslugo6430 They didnt hit me as hard in terms of being meta for something as much as the other 2. Thats just me tho. Ed and Gin come off more as comedy and at best rep disgruntled combat vets from the 00's -2010's wars
@@fictionalmind-bending3224 that's fair,
what an excellent show, thanks for the breakdown!
Personally I’m still waiting on Caesar to show up. He was from the comics and was Huey’s best friend. It would be interesting to see him challenge Huey on an intellectual level and be more optimistic about life and philosophy.
Dope vid. Also you sound like the TH-camr Danco.
They have the same eyes! Maybe that was a design quirk to highlight their connection?
not Riley marryin' a White girl! 😭
😂
One of the best dynamics
HE DID????😭😭😭😭
@@cuteButKindaDeadlyBreloom ur weird
Makes me wonder if Riley would be colorist because of how much colorism is in black entertainment and Hollywood, especially when the show took place.
@@Mehhhhhhhhdefinitely
You sound like like Jasmine’s father
She is to Riley what Jasmine is to Huey.
Funraiser is the best episode
Great video. What mic are you using?
Jazmine ❤ Huey
Cindy❤ Riley
That really should've happened.
I’m cuban-american. It’s kind of fucking weird! What’s my race? Also; my favorite two side of the same coin character is Magneto! 😂
I am Brazilian , and what the heck is the problem with two people of different etnicity marring? What is so special about this? is even somewhat racist to point this out.
@@gscsilvavaladares7065 Well, that’s because some American states had laws that prevented interracial marriage until 1967.
The reasons for which spanned from: racist propaganda, white supremacy, slavery, economic exploitation, colonialism and eugenics movements.
Same me too bro I’m treated black because of my phenotype but but my hair is really curly so people point that out and when I speak Spanish people become really confused (because so called “black guys” can’t be bilingual I guess) that’s when they finally be like “Are you Cuban ?” And then they treat me in a weird “ You’re black but not like us black way” so I honestly just don’t bring up my heritage or speak Spanish I front of my black friends unless necessary
Its interesting people thinking Aaron hated biracials- opposite in that he is quoted to firmly believe mixed people are Black and points that all Black Americans are mixed at some point. Cindy got depth in the show, where she was just the voice of an ignorant micro aggressing suburban child. Now Sarah changed a lot in the show, where she doesn’t always know how to handle race issues but is a civil rights attorney- while Sarah in the show is a snow bunny.
You mean Sarah in the comic is a attorney?
I don't remember her being attorney in show
And yeah Sarah is black American biracial blacks are black american they are part of the ethnicity as are geechee and creoles
Cindy and Jazmine are both cute 😭😭😭
you know, we still have "W-" wich is Vary FUNNY but extremely sad
4:09 not so strong and independent now LMAO
It would be amazing if the creator did a sequel with the Freeman brothers being adults and having kids with their respective "ships." The stories of the new generation.
deep cut
It’s been a while since I’ve seen the show, but I always saw Riley calling women “bitches” and “hoes” because all he saw from women was them using their sexuality to gain power/goods. There’s an entire episode where their grandfather gets taken in by one such woman and both kids are disgusted by her. Cindy was the first woman Riley RESPECTED because she didn’t use those means. Their personality was very much the same. He didn’t call her one because she didn’t act like one. She changed his polarizing view on women by introducing a new world view. Her very existence challenged his bigoted way of seeing women.
All women=hoes
Cindy is not a hoe, therefore all women cannot be hoes.
This very simple change in his world view allowed his character growth. Sure one could argue Jasmin could have done the same, but from Riley’s view, she wasn’t any better. He didn’t respect her. She was timid, self conscious and often shown as naive. She also had a strong family in the picture, something that Riley didn’t have. He couldn’t relate to her and most likely figured when she grew up her personality would become the same as all the other women he saw and knew. So definitely agree with many of your points.
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The lightskin dilemma.
There is no dilemma lightskins are black americans like the rest.
JAZMINE. lol all you had to do was read it
u aint makin it out the hood with this one
I didn't like Jazmin during the Usher episode. Or Sarah either
you know jasemines half black right?
I get what they were going for with Jazmine's character but she always annoyed me. I never enjoy her episodes and imo she has NO redeeming qualities to make her enjoyable
They move in like cockroaches and destroy everything and then they move on to the next nest
There's no such thing is biracial your race is determined by the race of your father you are your fathers seed.
and what of the mother's egg then?
Me when I fail genetics
Bruh
Bro what
If you have a white dad and black mom you’re still black