In "The Boondocks: Carrying On The Tradition of Subversive Black Comedy" the Roland Laird argues that the T.V. Show boondocks isn't like the minstrel tradition. He argues this by saying unlike the minstrel tradition, Boondocks has more freedom with the use of words by the color of their skin. One example he talks of is their uncle Ruckus is an anti-black but yet he is black himself. The author points out the key differences between the minstrel tradition and modern black comedy based T.V. Shows.

I agree with the author because unlike the minstrels where a black person must act a certain way the characters in Boondocks all act different. In Boondocks Riley acts like what most people would stereotypically expect a black man to do. Whereas his older brother Huey is into politics and martial arts. And their grandfather is like a mixture of the two of them but likes to always include racism. I love the boondocks humor, propaganda and especially how they always include racism in it.

In the end of "I Know Why The caged Bird Sings" Maya Angelou gets pregnant and decides to not tell other family members about it(except Bailey).She decides to finish high school while she was still pregnant. When she told her parents about it they weren't mad and supported her. When the baby was born she was too scared to hold it because she thought she couldn't protect it. At the end of the book Vivian made her sleep with the baby to prove she could handle it and when maya woke up with her child safely in her arms she realized everything was going to be okay and she went back to sleep.

I feel that Maya shouldn't have been scared of knowing whether she could protect her child or not because when she was younger she protected bailey from Mr. freeman. I'm pretty sure that if she could lie about not being raped by Mr. Freeman in front of a court and her mom in order to protect Bailey she could also protect and care for a child especially hers.