That Time MLK Was on The Boondocks
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There’s probably something to offend everybody in this outspoken animated episode…and I reckon that’s as it should be. Rather than complacently ushering someone into sainthood without thought, we should still be discussing their ideas, and if they were truly revolutionary, those thoughts should not necessarily be safe all the time.
Funnily enough, this episode was psychic – Oliver Stone did just try to do an MLK biopic. Can’t imagine why his family would object to such a thing.
I’m told the estate & the ‘respectable’ black community that guard King’s reputation won't approve it. They suffocate the man & the truth.
— Oliver Stone (@TheOliverStone) January 17, 2014
Apologies if this strikes anybody as overly political. I ask only that we all be respectful to those with whom we disagree…and that you imagine what could have ensued if I had instead posted the New World Order/X-Men/MLK videos I just watched on YouTube. Good Cthulhu, that shit was nuts.
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Luke Y. Thompson has been writing professionally about movies and pop-culture since 1999, and has also been an actor in some extremely cheap culty and horror movies you will probably never hear much about (he is nonetheless mostly proud of them, as he met his wife on one). As editor of The Robot's Voice since 2012, he can take the blame for the majority of the site's content, all of which he creates because he loves you very, very much. (Although he loves nachos more. Sorry.) Prior to TRV, Luke wrote for publications that include the New Times LA, Los Angeles CityBeat, E! Online, OC Weekly, Geekweek, GeekChicDaily, The L.A. Times, The Village Voice, LA Weekly, and Nerdist