Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder
Aaron McGruder is an American writer, producer, and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African-American brothers, Hueyand his younger brother and wannabe gangsta, Riley, from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb, as well as being the creator, executive producer, and head writer of The Boondocks animated TV series based on his strip...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth29 May 1974
CityChicago, IL
CountryUnited States of America
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
But I know that in Toronto and Vancouver there are all the comforts of America, and yet there's a difference in the people, and I had health care.
Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
To me, being in the top 10 for African-American audiences is not justification to keep a show on the air. I would not be shedding any tears for the loss of those shows.
We have to confront the very scary fact that the president is a moron. He's really dumb.
Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
And I'm not so in love with making people mad that I want to live my life around it.
There's some new evidence that has just come out about the CIA planning terrorist attacks on U.S. soil in the '60s and how they were going to set up Castro for it in order to get America behind a war in Cuba.
You know, Democratic and Republican administrations alike have supported individuals and regimes that have slaughtered millions across the globe. And they need to be held accountable for that.
I don't want the news to be patriotic. I don't want to see flags on the lapels of the anchors. I don't want any of that.
We wrote the script, we did a six-minute presentation, and then it died. Fox wanted a sitcom with an 'A story' and a 'B story,' and there were just very rigid creative rules that work on some shows and don't work on others.