![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() My parents were pretty much apolitical in that they didn’t talk about politics in the household. But for you the ground had been prepared by early encounters with a figure who looms large in your account: Malcolm X. Shenk: In a way, the best thing education can do is to force you to question previously unexamined premises. The Boondocks provided me with a black radical perspective. However it happens, it is important to have your worldview challenged. Comic strips and music were important for me. To me, that speaks to the different entry points that people have. I had no familiarity with this history, but it made me want to read more. This was just after 9/11, so McGruder was going after politicians pushing the Iraq war, so Bush and Cheney, but also there were references to the Reagan era, the first Bush era, the politics of crack distribution, Iran-Contra. Reading it was a huge part of my political awakening. Mychal Denzel Smith: Boondocks is a comic strip by Aaron McGruder I found when I was fifteen. You say that a crucial part of that education began with Boondocks. Timothy Shenk: This is a story of your education and how you learned to be a black man in America. ![]()
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