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Others might be asking a question Huey asked his Granddad, a former civil rights activist, in another episode, “The Hunger Strike,” a question I have repeated here once before: Many of us, looking at the electoral picture before us painted so garishly in blood red, may fear that he has finally been proven right-that while we “progressed” under Obama, those wishing to keep this country caught within the clutches of white supremacy, patriarchal power, and nationalistic bias simply bided their time and have finally reached their endgame. He warned, matter-of-factly, that it instead signaled “the end of America.” In the episode “It’s a Black President, Huey Freeman,” Huey-the radicalized 10-year-old political dissident of the Freeman family-expressed his doubts at an Obama presidency’s ability to change the country he knew. Many thought, after eight years under the leadership of President Barack Obama, that this sort of national about-face was nearly impossible.

HUEY FREEMAN TV

Today, a vulgar and crooked real estate magnate and reality TV star with no political experience who ran a campaign rooted in oligarchy, racism, sexism, transphobia, Islamophobia, xenophobia, climate change denial, and white nationalism was elected the next president of the United States of America. I’ve written of the social justice–fueled political savvy and prescience of The Boondocks here before, but today is different.

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