believe it or not one of the people who was behind the show and infact MADE the episodes about BET being beyond evil were done by someone who was actually high up in BET
Not even close and even if it was what race is he not speaking about if you really listen..Sounds like the average impoverished human in general not just blk people.
@@b10hz4rd Regina King did NOT write this, she is an incredible VA but the lead writer of the Boondocks was and always will be Aaron McGruder. The fact that he did not write the fourth season should let you know just how crucial he is.
Nothing is ever ahead of its time. It's just that the aspects of society boondocks highlighted, which were contemporary at the time of production, still haven't appreciably changed. To describe something of the past as ahead of its time is to trivialise the failings of the present
This and the soul food resteraunt grandad opens also. Mostly because the ending it was all a scheme by Mr. Wuncler to drive down property values enough to buy out the historical landmark park area for dirt cheap and drive out the people. He literally weaponized grandad's food/soul food to make the people area addicts and crime rates went up. Just replace soul food with whats in the lower part of your back or any drug and it's basically what happens irl whenever someone wants to buy out an area (that or they mass buy out everyone else then pick off the people who stay).
I do like the small bittersweet ending where all africans hear it and they all actually take it to heart and it ends with an african president (oprah). Though irl they would've just gotten mad and raged at the speech. Still got Obama as president though.
@@fumothfan9 Pure knowledge from this comment, that’s EXACTLY what it would be like. It’s gotten to a point IRL where Boondocks doesn’t even feel like satire anymore, if you find the right place, you’ll practically be livin’ amongst characters on the show
@@Gunman610 Because the African Americans are the descendants of the Israelites (that was the whole nation that was there at Sinai at that time btw). Before insults are hurled at me, read Deuteronomy 28:15-68 which describes the curses of which would befall the Israelites if they didn’t obey the Commandments of God (and they didn’t). The curses match no other nation’s plight to an absolute T.
When I was twelve, I watched this episode so many times that I would be repeating this speech word for word in front of people afterwards. When my brothers high school friends would be cracking up I would just calmly walk away.
“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.” -Epictetus
I think that's more indicative of internet culture People who post often and determine what trends and what doesn't don't have life anymore really. What interests weirdos that tweet 20-30 times a day is sooooo far removed from real life
@Wesley Griffiths First off, I never use that word, and you shouldn't either. And yes, I know there are more than a few of my community who do what you say. But it is not all of us. The main issue in my community is we all need to work together as one. It will be very difficult for us to move forward if we are not united.
@@vinceedwards3978 That isn't what this speech said, so you see why Wesley saw it different? This is a veiled "They are bad because of culture" argument that right wingers use. See the problem now? There is a reason white supremacists like this episode too.
@Christopher Huhmann Once again, you are assuming that I, who is a member of the Black community, is saying that it is everyone in my community. Let's assume that MLK had been alive and wanted to give a speech. Even today, I feel the crowd would have been eager to hear what he would have had to say, not turning into what happened in Mr. Macgruder's take. Also, I did not dismiss Mr. Griffiths take entirely. There is a segment in my community that almost seems to celebrate this very view, and it is something that really needs to change. But, that change also needs to be done on both sides of this particular coin.
@@vinceedwards3978 Once again? Impressive that you already are responding to me after this response. I kid of course. Black community member or not, siding with folks like candance owens doesn't mean you are right. Idpol don't play when you are wrong about MLK at the core in any case, especially in his late life.
One of the greatest episodes and probably the best you're right. Someone should go play this for Joy Reid and all the racist pricks in this country. Far as I'm concerned anyone can be a n**** it's about the content of your character not the color of your skin. 💕
It shatters a lot of myths about Dr. King that are ubiquitous today. It shatters the myth of King as the kumbaya-singing civil rights activist that even everybody’s racist Uncle Larry can love. A lot of what he said would be considered radical today. I can only imagine how impactful it was half a century ago. Aaron McGruder captured this with Dr. King’s hypothetical reaction to 9/11 at the beginning of the episode. At the same time, its depiction of how he would feel about pop culture and the worship of everything wrong with society is probably fairly accurate. He was a man of the cloth but that didn’t stop him from being critical. I wouldn’t have been terribly surprised to see him deliver a “Pound Cake on steroids” sermon if he hadn’t been taken away from us too soon. It doesn’t matter if somebody’s left-wing, right-wing, or in the center. Martin Luther King, Jr. probably wouldn’t be their ally. Anybody alive who invokes his name to push an agenda or claims to speak on his behalf is just a vulture.
King was spittin'...straight bars in that speech! Even as a kid watching this I was like "Damn...if he came back today, would his reaction be like this?" Years later watching this as an adult, after seeing what I've seen in my life and my community. Looking back, my answer would be "it should".
Martin Luther King was always Left leaning, he had to disown that speech he made, what we know about Martin Luther King was a co-opted version of him that serves the status quo. MLK was anti-capitalist and he criticized the Vietnam war and all that stuff. The FBI killed him cause he was more radical later on.
This isn’t even just about race. Everyone of every race knows people who “complain, love to hear themselves talk but hate to explain, love being another man’s judge and jury, procrastinate until it’s time to worry” people “who love to be late and hate to hurry.” It’s a moment of self reflection, stop making excuses and blaming others. Take responsibility for yourself
There is only so far you can do alone. Life can be good. But it gets better with good likeminded people. Our country is one of the british colonised countries before they gained independence. Our people love to blame the government for everything and do nothing. Creating exactly niggas.
This really makes me sad as A Black Person . We all need to realize that stuff like this is so real . Made in 2006 and unfortunately it still is so relevant. Humanity literally has to change .
It's not "humanity" as a whole. It's a group of people. And you can do your part by holding them accountable and organize within your communities against crime and immorality. If you act with fatalism towards the problem it will never get solved, and you'll get your brothers blaming the white man until the end of times instead of improve.
@@hounddog8993 I 🤔 THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION IS THE WORST THING THAT I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE LOVE AND SHIT HOP IS WOSRT THING I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE
@@hounddog8993 yep it's not just you guys, other non african countries are dealing with serious issues and ppl give up a lot, and do act with fatalism. Lift yourselves and each other up and stop letting the government be your dad. That's a message for any functional human really. nigga is a mindset, ppl need to escape it and hold themselves accountable.
@You're D'One that's not the point. If everyone divided their actions based on their skin color then we wouldn't change into better people, we would remain as stereotypes. I like to think that when Martin Luther King terrorized the word nigga because he exclaims that maybe we are entitled to the work he puts in and abused it to make a laughing stock of commercial culture. I think that all great leaders will look at us in spite, but also in a great deal of hope. Like a firework in the dark.
As an Arab who grew up in the ghetto in San Francisco, I use to see this issue come up in the black community. However I also saw a lot of black people who wanted to better themselves but they get looked down upon by their own community. Get called uncle Tom's & sell outs. It's really hard seeing it.
Its almost as if voting republicans(who literally make it harder for black people to vote) as a black person is self destructive. Its like mexicans voting for trump when he literally uses them as scapegoats, and if they were still illegal he would kick them out, everyone in the mexican community knows this, we were all illegal at one point, and then not. That piece of paper doesnt change the fact that in their eyes you're just a brown alien rapist stealing jobs
@@jaysonb.6669 Right, totally has nothing to do with the polices of arresting black people for things white people arent arrested for, 10 years for having weed, insane.
@@jaysonb.6669 my God the brain worms. Marxists didn't vote for biden because both democrats and Republicans are right wing. Republicans are just more open about it. If you look at today, and see who's pushing crime bills like stop and search, it's Republicans. Yeah the democrats can do better but atleast they're not ghouls who jerk off to the idea of owning a slave
@@declaringpond2276 what’s self destructive is supporting crime in our communities because we disagree with the people who are against crime in general. Sweeping ignorance under the rug for the sake of aligning with political parties who we think have our best interest and most importantly not being able to understand other views and remaining self destructive because someone who you don’t agree with may share that same view
This Episode is Brilliant and should be played on his Birthday so that we can see how we look and how he would be very unhappy with us all! We let him down!!! Sorry Dr. King!!!
A friend repsosted a flyer she saw on Facebook about a MLK, Jr club promotion called I Had A Dream Big Booty Jam and I commented that when I see stuff like that I IMMEDIATELY think about this episode.
Man, remember when this was a funny and heartfelt skit and not a depressingly accurate glimpse at an alternate reality where King didn't die? I remember.
I remember me and my best friend were about 19 years old watching this when it first came on. We both looked at each other with the same exact expressions = 😧😂😂😂 my best friend is no longer with us (RIP). This makes me think about her every time. ❤️
If it weren't for Martin Luther King, it weren't for the Boondocks series to be displayed in front of us on our phones today. No matter who you are #Keepthedreamalive
His legacy died and was tarnished years ago. There are people, black people who want segregation back in America. It's the saddest and most ignorant movement I've seen in my entire life
Because MLK was a plant. Malcom was the one they wanted to counterbalance against. Listen to what Malcom had to say bout a certain group and you'll begin to understand why - and why he was killed. Malcom told people the truth that TPTB didn't want the average "peasant" of any color knowing. He had to be marginalized and drowned out, then removed.
I love how brutally honest this show was, it would call out white people for their bullshit and then turn right around to black people and say "Hold up, your hands sure as hell are far from clean" and in today's culture ot holds up incredibly well.
@@rezyolkeo, read some Malcom x and then compare it to what's going on in current America, poor s.o.b would drop if he was in a situation like this episode.
this episode is my favorite. little did we know it was way ahead of it time. and if he were really alive today he would probably say this or something along the lines. even more powerful is He isnt wrong
I often wonder what the real Martain Luther King Jr. would think if he were still alive. If he were still alive, he'd be 95 now. I wish I could look into a parallel universe, one in which he was not assassinated, and see what kind of influence and changes our world would have experienced if he was still here. Living to 95 is no small feat, there's a high chance by now he would have passed on from natural causes. But I wish I could have seen a world in which he lived longer.
I’m going to Canada lol. Mr. King I feel the same way. We should love one another regardless of race religion or ideas. It starts off easy as a baby then society messes with our heads. Love trumps hate. MLK Jr was a visionary of love and peace. What a wonderful man he was.
@@DarranKern nah it's evident in all races/peoples. people fail all over the world regardless of country, ethnicity, background, etc. there's the people who succeed, and there's the people who don't (self-destructors). more people fail than succeed and that's just the facts.
@@jalensoto187 thats a nice sentiment, it’d be nice if we made everyone equal and prosperous, and then everyone acted chill and polite. But thats not the real world. And we aren’t all created equal.
I love when he tells them to shut the hell up lolol. The sad thing is, if MLK gave this speech today, it would not have the same impact because people are so numbed out by the 10,000 things they watch on social media each day. Big tech would game TF out of this speech and it would be replayed and twisted and spun in so many ways, nobody would even know what it means anymore.
"Black Entertainment Television is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life!!"
I don't even think that was a joke.
"The Sale Of BET To White Supremacist Group Results In No Changes To Programming"
believe it or not one of the people who was behind the show and infact MADE the episodes about BET being beyond evil were done by someone who was actually high up in BET
I agree with you
Non of the speech was a joke. You should go to Canada too
@@c3bhm You are part of the problem
“Niggas are living contradictions “
Damn I felt that
Yup
Niggas wax and wane, niggas LOVE to complain!
That’s what I was thinking
@@mrbomberholmes257 niggas
Plus the "unfulfilled ambitions" bit. Felt that even more, and I’m not black. Why do we not have a modern MLK out there fighting the good fight?
This show calls out white people then turns around to the black people and said "You ain't absolved from criticism either"
@@Jordan78142 Accurate as hell.
It's just a great critique of American race relations while being really entertaining and funny
@@Jordan78142 This comment needs more likes
@Malaysha Morgan It's social criticism. Not any sort of turnaround from "calling out" white people. It's a great cartoon.
Honestly The Boondocks is more critical of black people than it is of white people.
The most unfortunate part is how well it holds up today.
You're running for president?
You got a point right there.. It is so true and i am sure that he would think the same thing but wouldnt use those words.
Not even close and even if it was what race is he not speaking about if you really listen..Sounds like the average impoverished human in general not just blk people.
@@rustyshackleford7470 Just speaking the truth when it comes to some people.
@Double0Seven Let's talk about whites and their heroes and how they've gotten worse.
The voice actor who portrays MLK is phenomenal.
Funny enough, the same actor was also MLK in an episode of Rugrats lol
Kevin Michael Richardson is his name. Very talented voice actor.
He sounds more like MLK than MLK
*_USHER, MICHAEL JACKSON IS NOT A GENRE OF MUSIC!_*
@@jorgeoviedo870 Absolutely! Rosie on F is For Family, Junior in the Cleveland Show. He has soooo many and so much range
I always play this every MLK Day and its 100% true
Same. Just literally copied the link on my feed lol
Just did that yesterday lmfao
MLK Day AND Black History Month xD
It's true of white and black people. Lot of white niggas out there too. It's good for me to hear this so that I can be ashamed of myself as well.
Me too
Ngl whoever wrote this is genius whether you agree with it or not. It's well written.
Regina king
@@b10hz4rd Did she actually write that speech? I know she voices Huey/Riley, but didnt Aaron McGruder write this?
Its asheru's song "Niggas"
Aaron Mcgruder I believe not quite certain though I could be wrong.
@@b10hz4rd Regina King did NOT write this, she is an incredible VA but the lead writer of the Boondocks was and always will be Aaron McGruder. The fact that he did not write the fourth season should let you know just how crucial he is.
Boondocks was honestly one of the most based shows and way ahead of its time. Brilliance.
It wasn't my favorite at first but I quickly started to like. I might rewatch it
They Need To Bring It Back So We Can Share The Knowledge With Our Kids
It’s wasnt ahead of its time, it’s a timeless show.
Nothing is ever ahead of its time. It's just that the aspects of society boondocks highlighted, which were contemporary at the time of production, still haven't appreciably changed. To describe something of the past as ahead of its time is to trivialise the failings of the present
@@jameshayden2538they were going to reboot it, but unfortunately John Witherspoon(Grandad) passed away so it was scrapped. R.I.P
“niggas love to be late niggas hate to hurry”😂😂
It's true though haha
LMAOO too funny
Sounds about right
Lol
"Niggas procrastinate until it's time to worry"
the most depressing episode ever because this is what real life is
This and the soul food resteraunt grandad opens also.
Mostly because the ending it was all a scheme by Mr. Wuncler to drive down property values enough to buy out the historical landmark park area for dirt cheap and drive out the people. He literally weaponized grandad's food/soul food to make the people area addicts and crime rates went up.
Just replace soul food with whats in the lower part of your back or any drug and it's basically what happens irl whenever someone wants to buy out an area (that or they mass buy out everyone else then pick off the people who stay).
I do like the small bittersweet ending where all africans hear it and they all actually take it to heart and it ends with an african president (oprah).
Though irl they would've just gotten mad and raged at the speech. Still got Obama as president though.
It reminds me of Bible story of the Jews creating a golden idol while Moses climbed Mount Sinai to get the Ten Commandments.
@@fumothfan9 Pure knowledge from this comment, that’s EXACTLY what it would be like. It’s gotten to a point IRL where Boondocks doesn’t even feel like satire anymore, if you find the right place, you’ll practically be livin’ amongst characters on the show
@@Gunman610 Because the African Americans are the descendants of the Israelites (that was the whole nation that was there at Sinai at that time btw). Before insults are hurled at me, read Deuteronomy 28:15-68 which describes the curses of which would befall the Israelites if they didn’t obey the Commandments of God (and they didn’t). The curses match no other nation’s plight to an absolute T.
The way he says “I’m goin to Canada” kills me 😂😂😂
He don't wanna' go there now cuz' its way worse than how it was
When I was twelve, I watched this episode so many times that I would be repeating this speech word for word in front of people afterwards. When my brothers high school friends would be cracking up I would just calmly walk away.
Lol
when you give up, canada is the closest thing
Yah we've got a leader that openly admires the Chinese Communist Party and their dictatorship
“And now I’d like to talk about soul plane”
That had me in tears.
Everybody That’s Black In America Talked About Soul Plane.. So Much It Did Poorly At The Box Office. It Went Straight To Ghetto (Bootleg)
@@zerobullets6935it was funny 🤷🏿♀️
A movie so apocalyptically awful it warranted an entire chapter in MLK Jr.'s speech, absolutely killed me
Yes!
I make it a tradition to watch this every MLK day
Poor MLK if he was here today…
Me Too
Seems it'll be coming soon
Guess what today is???!!!
Same. Happy MLK day
“An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”
-Epictetus
"Whatever n__ga"
-Anonymous
TrUtH!!!
This white nigga not realizing the satire of Boondocks. You probably think Uncle Ruckus is right 💀
@@quickman2663 Anonymous nigga*
stoic gang stoic gang
This is the one time Uncle Ruckus would’ve agreed with MLK
Nah he likes bet
True
Would've held back his brick tossing for that one!
Lmfao 😂
this is almost as legendary as the original speech
That’s cause the original speech was plagiarized lol
@@TriceyDiva by whom?
@@jjeverson2269 MLK plagiarized some of the most famous parts of his I have a dream speech.
A communist jew named Stanley Levinson actually wrote the I have a dream speech.
“I don’t write my own speeches.”
They knew it. If he was alive, he would be disappointed af.
More than likely, yea
Sexy red 🤦🏽♂️
He was right we really had nothing to celebrate it just got worse @@dinodaniels6309
The sad thing, in 2024, was that this man was not even trending on his birthday.
I think that's more indicative of internet culture
People who post often and determine what trends and what doesn't don't have life anymore really. What interests weirdos that tweet 20-30 times a day is sooooo far removed from real life
even sadder is he is right
@@Espada2234100% right it only got worse
This was the most honest, raw, and truthful commentary about our people. Feel free to debate me ANYTIME over this.
And yet niggas still don't want to listen, and wanna play victim 24/7 instead of owning their own poor choices.
@Wesley Griffiths First off, I never use that word, and you shouldn't either. And yes, I know there are more than a few of my community who do what you say. But it is not all of us. The main issue in my community is we all need to work together as one. It will be very difficult for us to move forward if we are not united.
@@vinceedwards3978 That isn't what this speech said, so you see why Wesley saw it different? This is a veiled "They are bad because of culture" argument that right wingers use. See the problem now? There is a reason white supremacists like this episode too.
@Christopher Huhmann Once again, you are assuming that I, who is a member of the Black community, is saying that it is everyone in my community. Let's assume that MLK had been alive and wanted to give a speech. Even today, I feel the crowd would have been eager to hear what he would have had to say, not turning into what happened in Mr. Macgruder's take. Also, I did not dismiss Mr. Griffiths take entirely. There is a segment in my community that almost seems to celebrate this very view, and it is something that really needs to change. But, that change also needs to be done on both sides of this particular coin.
@@vinceedwards3978 Once again? Impressive that you already are responding to me after this response. I kid of course.
Black community member or not, siding with folks like candance owens doesn't mean you are right.
Idpol don't play when you are wrong about MLK at the core in any case, especially in his late life.
This is probably my favorite Boondocks episode.
It’s definitely one of mine
One of the greatest episodes and probably the best you're right. Someone should go play this for Joy Reid and all the racist pricks in this country. Far as I'm concerned anyone can be a n**** it's about the content of your character not the color of your skin. 💕
Mine too
It won a Peabody Award.
It shatters a lot of myths about Dr. King that are ubiquitous today.
It shatters the myth of King as the kumbaya-singing civil rights activist that even everybody’s racist Uncle Larry can love. A lot of what he said would be considered radical today. I can only imagine how impactful it was half a century ago. Aaron McGruder captured this with Dr. King’s hypothetical reaction to 9/11 at the beginning of the episode.
At the same time, its depiction of how he would feel about pop culture and the worship of everything wrong with society is probably fairly accurate. He was a man of the cloth but that didn’t stop him from being critical. I wouldn’t have been terribly surprised to see him deliver a “Pound Cake on steroids” sermon if he hadn’t been taken away from us too soon.
It doesn’t matter if somebody’s left-wing, right-wing, or in the center. Martin Luther King, Jr. probably wouldn’t be their ally. Anybody alive who invokes his name to push an agenda or claims to speak on his behalf is just a vulture.
King was spittin'...straight bars in that speech! Even as a kid watching this I was like "Damn...if he came back today, would his reaction be like this?"
Years later watching this as an adult, after seeing what I've seen in my life and my community. Looking back, my answer would be "it should".
He would be even more pissed
Martin Luther King was always Left leaning, he had to disown that speech he made, what we know about Martin Luther King was a co-opted version of him that serves the status quo.
MLK was anti-capitalist and he criticized the Vietnam war and all that stuff.
The FBI killed him cause he was more radical later on.
I come back to this speech every MLK day
Me too
Same for me
Just a few more days
Yeah me too
Yes indeed
This isn’t even just about race.
Everyone of every race knows people who “complain, love to hear themselves talk but hate to explain, love being another man’s judge and jury, procrastinate until it’s time to worry” people “who love to be late and hate to hurry.”
It’s a moment of self reflection, stop making excuses and blaming others. Take responsibility for yourself
There is only so far you can do alone. Life can be good. But it gets better with good likeminded people. Our country is one of the british colonised countries before they gained independence. Our people love to blame the government for everything and do nothing. Creating exactly niggas.
This really makes me sad as A Black Person . We all need to realize that stuff like this is so real . Made in 2006 and unfortunately it still is so relevant. Humanity literally has to change .
It's not "humanity" as a whole. It's a group of people. And you can do your part by holding them accountable and organize within your communities against crime and immorality.
If you act with fatalism towards the problem it will never get solved, and you'll get your brothers blaming the white man until the end of times instead of improve.
@@hounddog8993 I 🤔 THOUGHT IT WAS JUST ME BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION IS THE WORST THING THAT I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE LOVE AND SHIT HOP IS WOSRT THING I EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE
@@trucking-dumptruckbusiness9493 Preach the gospel brother.
@@hounddog8993 yep it's not just you guys, other non african countries are dealing with serious issues and ppl give up a lot, and do act with fatalism. Lift yourselves and each other up and stop letting the government be your dad. That's a message for any functional human really. nigga is a mindset, ppl need to escape it and hold themselves accountable.
They tried to cancel Aaron MacGruder over episodes like this. The man calls out his own. Few have his courage.
I can't believe that they actually nailed down what a 21st century MLKJ would sound like.
Kevin Michael Richardson is awesome!
" I had a dream *once* "
That's just heartbreaking.
"AND, NO, I WON'T GET THERE WITH YA! I'M GOIN TO CANADA!" Absolutely hilarious!
Gotta come back once a year
Gotta watch this at the start of black history month
😂
Sad part about this is the fact it's true.
this comment aged extremely well. :|
@@talesofgore9424 right? it's getting worse. King would hate to see what they are doing now
@@dimsumboy22 What exactly are we doing?? If your referring to the riots most of the rioters are white...
@@dimsumboy22 what we are doing? abraham Lincoln would be ashamed to see what white cops are doing
@You're D'One that's not the point.
If everyone divided their actions based on their skin color then we wouldn't change into better people, we would remain as stereotypes.
I like to think that when Martin Luther King terrorized the word nigga because he exclaims that maybe we are entitled to the work he puts in and abused it to make a laughing stock of commercial culture.
I think that all great leaders will look at us in spite, but also in a great deal of hope.
Like a firework in the dark.
“BET is the worst thing I have ever seen.”
-MLK
HBO is playing Soul Plane today, MLK Day 2024, and I just can't get this scene out of my head now 😂😭
The Black community needs more people like this over people like Al Sharpton
Al sharpton just a race pimp, showing up when there's politics and money involved
Nah we need more Malcolm X
We need a new version of Martin Luther King Jr. That can make the world a better place for the people and that can heal our people
@@Louisdc sad truth is, they will be silenced too sooner or later. This world is too far gone.
What’s wrong with al?
"So he did what all great leaders do, he told them the truth." FACTS!
As an Arab who grew up in the ghetto in San Francisco, I use to see this issue come up in the black community. However I also saw a lot of black people who wanted to better themselves but they get looked down upon by their own community. Get called uncle Tom's & sell outs. It's really hard seeing it.
It's the crabs in a bucket mentality
Its almost as if voting republicans(who literally make it harder for black people to vote) as a black person is self destructive.
Its like mexicans voting for trump when he literally uses them as scapegoats, and if they were still illegal he would kick them out, everyone in the mexican community knows this, we were all illegal at one point, and then not. That piece of paper doesnt change the fact that in their eyes you're just a brown alien rapist stealing jobs
@@jaysonb.6669 Right, totally has nothing to do with the polices of arresting black people for things white people arent arrested for, 10 years for having weed, insane.
@@jaysonb.6669 my God the brain worms.
Marxists didn't vote for biden because both democrats and Republicans are right wing. Republicans are just more open about it.
If you look at today, and see who's pushing crime bills like stop and search, it's Republicans. Yeah the democrats can do better but atleast they're not ghouls who jerk off to the idea of owning a slave
@@declaringpond2276 what’s self destructive is supporting crime in our communities because we disagree with the people who are against crime in general. Sweeping ignorance under the rug for the sake of aligning with political parties who we think have our best interest and most importantly not being able to understand other views and remaining self destructive because someone who you don’t agree with may share that same view
Even after all these years, this speech still hits hard.
12 years later and this shit still hits way too true...
This Episode is Brilliant and should be played on his Birthday so that we can see how we look and how he would be very unhappy with us all! We let him down!!! Sorry Dr. King!!!
Truth
True
A friend repsosted a flyer she saw on Facebook about a MLK, Jr club promotion called I Had A Dream Big Booty Jam and I commented that when I see stuff like that I IMMEDIATELY think about this episode.
We as Black people have completely fucked up
Wasn’t allowed to watch Boondocks as a kid. This is the realest ish I’ve ever heard.
“And now I’d like to talk about soul plane” 😂
Need a whole segment for that lmao.
im going to canada
I saw the Good Times reboot and immediately thought of this.
Fr
Man, remember when this was a funny and heartfelt skit and not a depressingly accurate glimpse at an alternate reality where King didn't die?
I remember.
Lol. Then you weren't conscious when this came out... Go watch some bling era hip hop videos.
Yep@
It was just as bad if not worse then...
Pepperidge Farm remembers and Pepperidge Farm wants to go back to that time.
yeah I member
I remember me and my best friend were about 19 years old watching this when it first came on. We both looked at each other with the same exact expressions = 😧😂😂😂 my best friend is no longer with us (RIP). This makes me think about her every time. ❤️
Very sorry for your loss.
This is the speech we should’ve and would’ve gotten if he was still alive to see what’s happening to us now.
The Bass in that man's voice still rings as powerful as ever.
“This is what I got all those ass whoopings for?” Makes me snort every time
“So he did what all great leaders would do, he told them the truth”
And thats what he did
If it weren't for Martin Luther King, it weren't for the Boondocks series to be displayed in front of us on our phones today.
No matter who you are
#Keepthedreamalive
The MLK legacy did die in 40 years
His legacy died and was tarnished years ago. There are people, black people who want segregation back in America. It's the saddest and most ignorant movement I've seen in my entire life
@@SpectreMkTwo fax
Because MLK was a plant. Malcom was the one they wanted to counterbalance against. Listen to what Malcom had to say bout a certain group and you'll begin to understand why - and why he was killed.
Malcom told people the truth that TPTB didn't want the average "peasant" of any color knowing. He had to be marginalized and drowned out, then removed.
Also the crowd of people who say mlk is on their side. Let the dead man rest.
@@SpectreMkTwo wait what? Did I heard that right?
He didn't call them niggas
He called them them what they really are
I play this every MLK day and it never gets old
niggas love to hear themselves but niggas hate to explain had me rollllling😂😂
I love how brutally honest this show was, it would call out white people for their bullshit and then turn right around to black people and say "Hold up, your hands sure as hell are far from clean" and in today's culture ot holds up incredibly well.
😍😍😍
I come here every year on MLK day to watch this. It just gets truer and truer every year.
My mom when she gets tired of me and my brothers making too much noise 0:27
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
This along with your pfp makes me laugh
This is what I send everyone on MLK DAY! I love my people!❤️🖤💚
He said the truth about black folks like crazy
Last thing I did for MLK Day 2024…thank you for this reality check Dr. King!
As a black man, this decade *NEEDS* this
This is exactly what Dr. King would say today. Smh.
Yes he would say that word
If he says this I know Malcom x would have a brain aneurysm if he saw what was goin on today
@@DavidLopez-yt2yp why do you think he will have a brain aneurysm ?
@@rezyolkeo, read some Malcom x and then compare it to what's going on in current America, poor s.o.b would drop if he was in a situation like this episode.
@@rezyolkeobro we were robbed our own independence. He was against integration. In some ways he was very right to be so
This is actually very powerful
Sheesh..
If there's one scene from The Boondocks that's iconic it's this scene
This shit is more relevant today than it was when this came out.
The power of this message only seems to grow stronger with time🤦♂️
It’s so bad that I’m trying not to hate myself simply for being black
Literally had a moment like this today smh
I check in on this once a year...
To this day this speech still stands
Prophetic. Aaron saw Drill Rap, Sexxy Redd, Cardi B, Ice Spice coming.
Meagen the stallion.
Watch the full episode, this hits so much harder. Happy MLK day!
“And no, I won’t get there with you! Im goin to Canada” Killed me💀
this episode is my favorite. little did we know it was way ahead of it time. and if he were really alive today he would probably say this or something along the lines. even more powerful is He isnt wrong
Happy MLK DAY 🖤
I often wonder what the real Martain Luther King Jr. would think if he were still alive. If he were still alive, he'd be 95 now. I wish I could look into a parallel universe, one in which he was not assassinated, and see what kind of influence and changes our world would have experienced if he was still here. Living to 95 is no small feat, there's a high chance by now he would have passed on from natural causes. But I wish I could have seen a world in which he lived longer.
Alot of ppl need to hear this today.
I play this ever MLK Day 2022
This video never get old.
The writers of the Proud Family reboot need to see this scene.
Amen 🙏 "Yea" - in Riley's voice
What’s wrong with the Proud family reboot?
It’s pretty solid
@@rari2943 Except the characters are awful people.
@@rari2943 Straight up propaganda rather than harmless comedy like the original. Too much hate that goes against MLK's creed.
@@luciusirving5926 what hate did they show that goes against MLK??
I saw the talked abt reparations and MLK was pro-reparations
Happy MLK day everyone!
The soul plane line. 😂😂😂😂
It's 2023 and still no change. I think Dr. King would be ashamed of what the black community has become.?
And he would reject the woke cult outright. They've done more to make race relations worse instead of better.
It's change it worst than ever
Sad but true tbh the black community is doomed at this point in 2020s
what do you mean, it came true
Who did the voice? He really sounded like MLK.
Kevin Michael Richardson.
Kevin Micheal Richardson
@@jacenwade right I got confused 😄
@@jacenwade omg omg omg, he is great! I had no idea it was him, thank you!
@@DarkWolf-407 Wow. Bulkhead from Transformers Prime.
The first time this aired I was on the floor😂
Your humor sucks I dont even find this funny. Maybe im not ignorant like you. Idk 🤷🏽♂️
The look on their faces 1:52 at the end of MLK’s speech is priceless, and speaks volumes!
Yearly (needed) tradition to come to this vid. Thank you Dr. King
Happy black history month everyone.
Holy crap, this speech aged like the finest wine from Heaven itself. 🍷
“Black…Entertainment…Television…” 😭😭😭💀💀💀
I’m going to Canada lol. Mr. King I feel the same way. We should love one another regardless of race religion or ideas. It starts off easy as a baby then society messes with our heads. Love trumps hate. MLK Jr was a visionary of love and peace. What a wonderful man he was.
Still flabbergasted they got MLK to voice himself in this episode
Happy MLK day.
"Is this it? Is this what I got all those ass-whoopings for?" I died. 🤣
In light of current events could this be any more relevant
Color does not dictate how great you can be. Self-destruction is a trait of all races.
But most evident in just one
But VERY common in some more than others. MUCH more.
@@DarranKern nah it's evident in all races/peoples. people fail all over the world regardless of country, ethnicity, background, etc.
there's the people who succeed, and there's the people who don't (self-destructors).
more people fail than succeed and that's just the facts.
@@jalensoto187 thats a nice sentiment, it’d be nice if we made everyone equal and prosperous, and then everyone acted chill and polite. But thats not the real world. And we aren’t all created equal.
The most powerful thing about his speech in this episode is that it's true
I love when he tells them to shut the hell up lolol. The sad thing is, if MLK gave this speech today, it would not have the same impact because people are so numbed out by the 10,000 things they watch on social media each day. Big tech would game TF out of this speech and it would be replayed and twisted and spun in so many ways, nobody would even know what it means anymore.
That’s actually so true
whoa good observation. Yeah we're all numb by doomscrolling anyway
Happy MLK Day 2023 😅 he spoke only truth.
This is my first episode i seen of boondocks...i fell inlove laughter....showed to my parents .. They was cracking up, 🤣🤣🤣
Decade later. Oh they dinnut listen.
The content of their character