Posted on 11/10/2002 9:21:03 AM PST by LurkedLongEnough
NEW HAVEN -- Standing at the front of an auditorium that looked like a castle dining hall, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, of "The Boondocks," leaned into the microphone and said, "All right. Yale."
And the packed house applauded, just like that. Through the rest of his nearly two-hour talk on Saturday, McGruder, a 28-year old who looks no older than his college audience, drew guffaws, groans, and loud applause at Yale University's eighth annual Black Solidarity Conference.
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I stopped reading any further at that point.
What a mixed-up mumbo jumbo view of the world he has.
Funny thing is, when the syndicates finally wise up and dump him he'll have Jesse hi-Jackson sticking them up for ransom.
...he lambasted the King family for selling the activist's image to be used in advertisements.
"They say, 'Martin Luther King didn't leave us a lot of money; we have to get by,'" McGruder said. "Get a job! Your grandfather dies and he doesn't leave you a lot of money. Are you going to prop up his corpse and charge admission?"
And later:
"I am for reparation," he said. "But not for picketing." And then he stepped away from the microphone.
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