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
I've never been able to predict what people are going to get mad at. I've tried and I've always been surprised.
I tried to instill a realness into them. I wanted to do this from a black point of view. I wanted to show that they're the only people playing on this playground.
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.
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.
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
A lot of people looked at the Fox pilot and said, 'We don't think it needs to be this pretty; can't you make it simpler?' They really get and appreciate everything I'm trying to do here.
This isn't the n---a show. N---a, n---a, n---a, n---a, n---a. I just wish we would expand the dialogue and evolve past the same conversation that we've had over the past 30 years about race in our country. & I just hope to expand the dialogue and hope the show will challenge people to think about things they wouldn't normally think about, or think about it in a very different way.
It astounds me that good, responsible white people paid for this show.
Our show is not 'Family Guy,' ... The element of race changes everything.
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.