Word: mcgruder
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That is no surprise to Aaron McGruder, the 25-year-old African American who created The Boondocks for his student newspaper at the University of Maryland. The strip, he says, "requires people to go outside their comfort zone." Born in Chicago, McGruder grew up in Columbia, Md., where he dealt with "the intimidation of being one of two or three black faces in a sea of faces that don't look like you." He still works out of his bedroom in his parents' split-level ranch house, his collection of Star Wars toys strewn about. Besides "an addiction...
...generation the way Doonesbury speaks to boomers," says syndicate executive Lee Salem. Perhaps for that reason, the strip has drawn complaints on more than just racial grounds. In one strip Riley whacks Cindy with a toy light saber. "See?!!! You're still alive!!" he complains. "This thing is worthless!!" McGruder was stunned by the howls of outrage from readers, who cited the Littleton school shooting and the climate of media violence. "There's a double standard," he protests. "Calvin, in Calvin and Hobbes, abuses a little girl, shoots guns, orders explosives and imagines blowing up his elementary school. Calvin does...
Alexi O. Solit-McGruder '01 also says he notices a difference in language between Boston and his hometown of Berkeley, Calif...