Thinking about The Boondocks (2005-2014), the adaptation of the newspaper comic that, like Doonesbury before it, some papers ran on the editorial page as more appropriate to its subject and can’t help wondering how much the Atlanta-based Adult Swim was playing to itself with “Black people move to the suburbs and interface with mainstream American life” as an angle on the world

I will say that for all the yearly cod-African Kwanzaa fables, “Curtis” the comic strip never seemed to actually communicate anything about The Black Experience like The Boondocks did

You know it’s kind of weird in The Boondocks that Tom DuBois and Grandpa live across the street from each other, given that Tom seems like he’d move to a “best schools” “favored quarter” suburb while Grandpa would not maximize cost of living. I suppose Grandpa could be doing it for the kids or Tom could merely be living in the best available neighborhood somewhere with better opportunities as a prosecutor, but in either case it’s unclear what Uncle Ruckus is doing there