Talk:Aaron McGruder/Archive 1

Archive 1

Green Party Nomination

Can someone verify source for Green Party nomination? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.209.222.117 (talk • contribs) 21:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Although I failed to find anything on the site (I didn't particularly look all that hard), there was a mention of it in an article in the New Yorker:

As a talented young black man who is outspoken in his political convictions, McGruder has grown accustomed to inordinately high expectations. The Green Party called him last year, asking if he might like to run for President. He had to point out that he wasn’t old enough. “I want to do stuff that has a moral center—stuff that I can be proud of,” he continued. “But I’m not trying to be that guy, the political voice of young black America, because then you have to sort of be a responsible grownup, for lack of a better word. And it’s like—you know, Flip Wilson said this, he said, ‘I reserve the right to be a nigger.’ And I absolutely do, at all times.”

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Controversy??

It's disturbing that the 'controversy' section is more heavyweight than any other section. I wonder what happened to the edits I saw a month ago that included more positive information and personal views taken from his IMDB profile????????? Panda

You will find that numerous articles are "cultivated" to be one sided, often by groups of people. Particularly egregious examples comprise wildly different articles like Web 2.0 and Yassir Arafat. Also talk pages are routinely "santised", for examples the question here regarding ethnicity of the author vs. his views was quietly wiped on 2007-07-09. Other unexplained deletions: [1], [2], serial reversions and under cover of trivia. Basiclly this is a disaster site of an article, best to give up the next two years or until Wikipedia grows a working process. --15:24, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

University of Maryland

In regards to the debut of Boondocks in UofMaryland's newspaper, is the side note that it was published by Jayson Blair (late of the New York Times) while Blair was an editor for the paper? — Preceding unsigned comment added by CHRISM4877 (talk • contribs) 08:45, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

The Boondocks ended its run in the Diamond back in 1996 upon Macgruder's graduation.. so I have no idea where the source of it beginning in 1997 comes from. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.86.145.97 (talk) 17:20, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Critisicm?

A Criticism section is a-ok, but shouldn't it be on the comic's page, not McGruder's? Wikilost (talk) 04:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree. There should be a short summary about Boondocks criticisms, but the bulk of it should be moved to that article. I'll try to sort it out later. SchutteGod (talk) 20:40, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Obama comments

Rather than set off an edit war, better to discuss it here. In my opinion, this item should stay in the article. It did set off a fair amount of controversy, enough to cause McGruder to note it on his Web page, and to reach BET News. And yes, the controversy was related to remarks McGruder made himself, not in the comic strip. That makes it notable and relevant in my book. SchutteGod (talk) 20:39, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

radonm

could you please add a comment section for bossaboss for this article? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.240.87.34 (talk) 12:16, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Picture

Why does Wikipedia go out of its way to use the worst/most outdated fucking pictures of everybody? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.0.220.28 (talk • contribs) 22:01, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

If you have a better free one, please upload it. --GentlemanGhost (converse) 18:32, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

Citation needed

"At the NAACP Image Awards in 2002, he was approached by then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who asked if McGruder would draw her into the comic strip. McGruder allegedly replied, to her face, "I don't draw mass murderers." source for this? 153.104.16.114 02:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

In the interim, this has been sourced to The New Yorker. --GentlemanGhost (converse) 19:07, 3 August 2017 (UTC)

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