The Boondocks (Identified stereotyping)

The Boondocks is a black orientated and animated comedy that possesses a lot of political views with in society and tries to reflect them. It features a lot of satire and talks about a lot of racial in equality and reflects back to slavery times and around Martian Luther King’s struggle, it uses negatives as positive point for laughter that could still be found as offensive. This cartoon uses a lot of stereotyping to highlight the issue of both orientalism, stereotyping and racism that has taken place over time and still features in to days modern day society. The purpose of it's creation is to entertain but still politically educate, this is why the creator Aaron McGruder decide to add a lot of racist quotes and characters because he believes offending is important as long as your offending for the right reasons, what he is trying to say is that his purpose for offending is based on the content of his animation which is focused around modern day america and its supremacist racism to non westerns.    

What make the animation appealing to everyone of different ethnic is that they are all included with in the Animated series and the racial jokes are not only aimed at one ethnic group but at everyone, making it equally open to everyone, mostly as a way of making all races laugh at an equal expense.

The creator Aaron McGruder states that there are a lot of political, cultural and effective reasons for the use of content that may be perceived with in his animations. He states it is mainly to paint a picture of the modern day society through controversy and offensive language.

"What has never been lost on me is the enormous responsibility that came with The Boondocks - particularly the television show and it’s relatively young audience. It was important to offend, but equally important to offend for the right reasons. For three seasons I personally navigated this show through the minefields of controversy. It was not perfect. And it definitely was not quick. But it was always done with a keen sense of duty, history, culture, and love. Anything less would have been simply unacceptable"

Sergio (2014) Aaron McGruder finally explains why he left ‘the Boondocks’. Available at: http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/aaron-mcgruder-finally-explains-why-he-left-the-boondocks (Accessed: 17 January 2016).

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/aaron-mcgruder-finally-explains-why-he-left-the-boondocks

I this scene of  The Boondocks a character Uncle Ruckus,Who is black and hates the black race. His father demonstrates a hatred based on the idea of uncle Ruckus originally being white and ended up turning black due to vitiligo which is a skin disease that turns someone's skin colour pale based on the skin pigments. The father classes uncle Ruckus as a "Mexican", follows this statement with not having to speak English to be a Mexian. Which may implying that anyone can be Mexican, this is because uncle Ruckus works more than one job.This statement is based on a stereotypical western idea of Mexicans being refugees/gypsies that work multiple jobs. He is saying that being Mexican basically means you have not home, real job and your considered poor based on your nationality, which is a racist western ideology.