Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder is an American writer, producer, and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers, Hueyand his younger brother and wannabe gangsta, Riley, from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb, as well as being the creator, executive producer, and head writer of The Boondocks animated TV series based on his strip...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth29 May 1974
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
To me, being in the top 10 for African-American audiences is not justification to keep a show on the air. I would not be shedding any tears for the loss of those shows.
Oprah has the power to lay waste to entire industries with a mere utterance. That's a power that you have to respect. And ultimately I respect it.
It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.
We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.
Ultimately I think everyone draws their own line of what's shocking and what is inappropriate in different places. For you, some 10-year-old kids talking about hoes may not (be) that big of a deal. But someone out there is gonna flip. There's no way to know. So I just try to deliver an amusing and decent story and leave the shock and the awe to whatever people have in their own heads.
We do greatly expand the world we see, seeing Woodcrest and the unnamed city it's a suburb of, and we flash back to different time periods. We certainly try to take advantage of the medium.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.