VIDEO: banned “The Boondocks” episode satirizing BET

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

One of the banned episodes of Aaron McGruder’s hit comic strip and television show The Boondocks has been released on the net. Make sure you peep it above.

The episode entitled “The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike”, depicts BET’s CEO, Debra Lee, as “Debra Lee-vil,” a sinister Dr. Evil clone who kills underlings and rants about creating a network “that would accomplish what hundreds of years of slavery, Jim Crow and malt liquor couldn’t - the destruction of black people.”

In related news, a Canadian network will be airing another banned episode this Sunday. According to a report, the episode (also in protest of BET) shows Uncle Ruckus, a self-hating black man (voiced by Gary Anthony Williams), getting his own offensive BET reality show. [READ MORE]