For my very first media blog I decided to write it on the show Boondocks. The Boondocks is an American animated television series created by Aaron McGruder for the Adult Swim programming block of Turner Broadcasting's Cartoon Network, based upon McGruder's comic strip of the same name. The Boondocks is a social satire of American culture and race, revolving around the lives of the Freeman family – ten-year-old Huey, his younger brother Riley, and their grandfather, Robert. The series is currently airing its second season on Adult Swim. The Freeman family, having recently transplanted themselves from the South Side of Chicago to the peaceful, fictional suburb of Woodcrest, find different ways to cope with this acute change in setting as well as the drastically different suburban cultures and lifestyles to which they are exposed. The perspective offered by this mixture of cultures, lifestyles, and races provides for much of the comedy on which the series plays(Wikipedia).
I chose to discuss a particular episode in the Boondocks though there are many episodes that will have you think but one i thought related to what was being discussed in class now was the episode called "Ballin" in which the younger brother Riley tries out fora basketball team he thinks he will dominate because he's black and everyone else on the team is white. And even though he is great a dribbling the ball he soon find out that he has to learn the fundamentals and most importantly learn how to shoot the ball.
I think this episode has many valuable lessons because not only is he not the best player he is outplayed by a white female player on an opposing team which makes him want to work hard and become a team player not a show off and ball hog. The show tackled on the issue not just sterotyping a certain race but also gender and it factors in working together as a team not just one person. Being a female athlete myself I think this episode shows that females are just as good as males at sports no matter the color.
I think this episode coincides well with the Video we watched on Race The Power of Illusion because its shows that race is something we personally feels makes us different from one another. Like one of the students on the video said there might be truth of blacks having an extra muscle of something in their genes that make them better at track or basketball even though blacks werent always dominate in those sports.
The Boondocks is still a new show only in it's second season but its very controversal and tackles alot of issues particularly in the black communities that most shows will not. You can view the whole episode here http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=24591091
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