The Angriest Black Man in America


1. What does it mean to be outspoken?
To speak better or more cogently than another.

2. Who is Aaron McGruder?
He is the creator/producer of "The Booddocks" comics.

3. What is censorship?
Deleting parts of publications or correspondence or theatrical performances, usually inappropriate foe a certain situation.

4. What’s it mean to be “race conscious” give to examples of race conscious individuals?
When someone is conscious the pay atention to only or mosly one race, in a bad or a good way .

5. What is caustic humor?
Caustic humor is huumor that is harmful, it may offend someone or harm someone in a humorus

6. Why is McGruder considered to be “the angriest black male in America?”
McGruder is considered that way because he is just a ordinary man who has a comicstrip and a cartoon and in those comics and cartoons he expresses his true feelings about real life situations through his characters in his artwork. There are alot of people who disagree with his artwork and want him and his comics destroyed and though he is getting awards for his work people still persuade newspapers to stop publishing his work and overall destroy his work.

7. What is McGruder’s strip about?
His strip is about a Grandfather and his two grandchildern who move from a black and into a white neighborhood. The move was a big change in their life as they try to adapt to their new (white) neighborhood.

8. Who are Riley and Huey?
Riley and Huey are the the two, young grandchildern of the grandfather who moves into the white neighborhood.

9. Why does McGruder speak through children and not adults?
Mcgruder speaks through childern because childern are more open and are more likely to say and ask the questions they ask. Alot of what they say has something todo with white people and what better way to express it , than a young black kid put into a whole new lifestyle.

10. Who received Huey’s most embarrassing black of the year award
Cuba Gooding Jr. for his role in Snow Dogs.

12. List three things you did not know about Mr. McGruder
I did not know that his comic was now a cartoon.
I did not know that it was such a big deal and was not liked by so many people.
I did not know that he recieved a award from the NAACP.