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Blasts new comic strip
Web posted May 21, 1999
She does not even perceive the girl as normal. Instead, she cannot believe that she had met her first ``black'' friend and did not even realize it, like she had anticipated a gang member or something. She then proceeds to ask the interracial child if she is a gangster rapper. The only thing this has done is portray a white child as sheltered and completely stereotypical.
On May 12, the strip portrays the two girls walking down the road. The interracial girl asks the other if she really couldn't tell that she was half-black and the white girl replies that she only thought the other was having ``a really bad hair day.'' This adds to the sheltered effect by playing on the assumption that the white girl has no idea what interracial children look like.
On May 13, the strip starts off with a child asking his grandfather to take him to the city to see Star Wars. The grandfather then states that he knows the kid wants to go to a black movie theater. He then goes on to sarcastically state that ``we all know how quiet and attentive black folks are in movie theaters'' and that he is sure that the kid will hear at least half of the movie. All of the words in quotes were in bold print in the actual printing of the strip.
The writer of this strip needs to stop portraying the white youth of today as narrowminded and uneducated and focus on what comics are about: making people smile and laugh.
John Jarman, Evans
Editor, The Chronicle:
Recently The Chronicle replaced the comic strip ``Curtis'' with the strip called ``Boondocks.'' This new strip has done nothing but mock society as a whole. On May 11, a white child meets her first interracial friend and is totally unaware of the existence of biracial children.
