'They aren't telling us the truth'
Aaron McGruder--the young Black cartoonist who does the
syndicated strip "The Boondocks" and has come under fire since
Sept. 11--won a special award at the NAACP Image Awards. It was
shown on Fox television March 3.
McGruder made what may very well have been the first
anti-war speech shown on network television. He denounced Bush
and the war, and warned that the government was trying to
silence him. He said that his strip was "a Black radical voice"
and he was challenging people to think for themselves because
"they aren't telling us the truth."
He received a lot of applause and gave a Black Power salute
as he left the stage.
--Greg Butterfield
Reprinted from the March 14, 2002, issue of
Workers World newspaper
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