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I admit that I have been a fan of Aaron McGruder and his inflamatory opus The Boondocks about the lives of child revolutionary Huey and his wannabe thug brother, Riley, in the comic strip and Cartoon Network series of the same name. The show is by no means perfect. When it hits, IT HITS and when it misses, it MISSES. McGruder tends to take part in a type of anime masturbation (if you will), when scenes contains martial arts and he tends to go over the top with some of the viewpoints, but sometimes when doing comic satire it is needed. But McGruder has other streams of income, which is public speaking at colleges. This is due to his ability to touch nerves of the public with the comic strip combined with his African-American Studies degree from the University of Maryland. He recently made a statement that "touched" some nerves while speaking at Earlham College.

On the eve of President Barack Obama’s inauguration, McGruder is “cautiously pessimistic” about the presidency. “I don’t think you’re going to see any dramatic change from Barack Obama,” said McGruder, who wore a “Boondocks” T-shirt over a black long-sleeve shirt and jeans. “I’m hoping he proves me completely wrong.”

McGruder bases his opinions of the U.S. presidency on the 2000 election and how nothing has been done since then to change the election system. “It was a sham then … It’s got to still be a sham,” McGruder said. “I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but it’s what I tend to do.”

On the topic of race and ethnicity, McGruder said that to him, Obama is not black because he is not a descendant of a slave. “The person who is one of us in the White House is Michelle Obama and her momma,” McGruder said.

I find it preposterous that a man with the features favoring that of a European and lacking so heavily in the melanin column can question President Obama's blackness, when he isn't anywhere close to being a pure blood Zulu warrior his damn self. Yes President Obama is bi-racial, but to say a person is not black because he isn't a descendant of a slave? WTF?! I won't let being the descendant of a slave determine my ethnicity no more than I would the "fraction of blood" test, what hood I'm from or "how real I can keep it". I am not in a The Empire has fallen and the galaxy is back in serenity by no means, but this isn't Jesse "I wanna cut his nuts off" Jackson. This is a man, who has endured an extreme amount of scrutiny and vetting than the average presidential candidate because he was considered black by the nation despite his not having a box marked Bi-Racial to check. I'm not saying give President Obama a pass, but let's not go up the man's a** with Hasbro's new Junior CSI DNA Kit. This is an example of a mind being a terrible thing to waste. Armed with his University of Maryland African American studies McGruder seems like a young Mike Tyson at a strip joint or a pitbull living at 1915 Moonlight Road (AKA the Michael Vick residence). As good as a satirist as McGruder is there is a point where you are touching nerves just to be touching them and not making an f***ing point. Being that his comic strip no longer runs in the newspapers (to my knowledge) and the third season of the Boondocks has yet to air or get an air date, I can only assume he is trying to keep his name in spotlight. Well guess what Aaron... mission accomplished.

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