Boondocks' creator Aaron McGruder tells press he just may stop talking period.
After being misquoted during a speech he gave at Earlham College in Richmond, Ind, the cartoonist says not talking is the only way to avoid "this kind of thing." According to the Washington Post blog Comic Riffs, the paper quoted McGruder saying, "The person who is one of us in the White House is Michelle Obama and her momma..Obama is not black because he is not a descendant of a slave.
In a statement issued a couple of days later, McGruder says, "it was a simple conversation about the difference between race, ethnicity, nationality, and trying to draw distinctions that most of the media and public seemed to be casually ignoring. That somehow became me calling someone who is obviously black not black." He goes on to say, '[s]adly, it no longer matters how carefully you choose your words--you said what the dumbest person in the audience said you said, I've certainly had my share of criticism for the 'legit' media--in fact, I largely stopped doing press because I hate being misquoted or misinterpreted by journalists--but this new kind of 'gutter news' from sites...[is] going to make it extremely difficult to engage in any sort of intelligent discourse."
Can you imagine Huey silencing his revolutionist rhetoric?
