Strange...
There was a new episode of the Boondocks on Adult Swim this weekend. And it was the best one I had ever seen. Huey and Riley's Grandad learned that a once good friend of his had died and he was asked to go back to their hometown of Chicago to read his eulogy at his funeral. Grandad didn't want to do this because he and his friend had gotten into some bad blood (They had a huge fight) a long time ago. Still, he decides to go and he takes the boys with him. Huey is glad to go because he gets to see his best friend who, for some reason, he hasn't talked to since he moved away from Chicago.
Pretty much, Grandad and Huey get back to Chicago to meet lots of disappointment. (Grandad runs into this ugly old hag who says she remembers him but he doesn't remember her..odd but back to the story) Everytime Grandad tries to tell himself that this will be his chance to make things right with his friend, he learns more and more of why his friend was an asshole. And Huey finds out that his best friend never forgave him for moving away and got a new best friend. The episode goes way awry and then things get weird.. Grandad remembers back to what it was that made he and his friend start hating eachother, his friend had scammed on a girl he was seeing back in the day... except his sister reminds him that he was never seeing this girl, he simply asked for her number once and never called. Then his sister shows him exactly what it was he "missed out on" (Remember that old Hag I mentioned earlier?). And then Grandad realizes the only one who threw their friendship away was him.
Huey and HIS friend get into a huge fight where Huey kicks the @#@$ out of him. But at the end things calm down. Huey then realizes that he has to be the bigger man an apologize. So he goes over to his friend's house with a fruit basket, says I'm sorry and is met with a headbutt to the nose....
"Being the Bigger man is overrated...."
It was a touching episode.. and it hit VERY close to home...
You see, in August 2004.. I left California's sunny borders to attend college in Hot'lanta. I left everything behind, my friend's, my family, my hobbies... and had to spend 7 months in social prison. I faced more racism from my own people in that 7 months than I had from white people in all my 19 years. But I had one thing in mind... I would soon come home and see everyone again.
Only.. when I came home... it was very different.
I did Guys and Dolls and things had changed a LOT. I lost my first and only best friend, the people who I had been so close to were now used to me not being around, and my family was driving me crazy. It was as though I traded one life of hell for another one. People who had been my oldest friends, betrayed me for newer ones.. I lost everything.
But watching this episode I kinda have a better idea of what happened... Or may have happened. I don't know... It can all be summed up in this poem that Huey Recites at the funeral
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility." - Kaleel Cabron.
~Kamahni
Pretty much, Grandad and Huey get back to Chicago to meet lots of disappointment. (Grandad runs into this ugly old hag who says she remembers him but he doesn't remember her..odd but back to the story) Everytime Grandad tries to tell himself that this will be his chance to make things right with his friend, he learns more and more of why his friend was an asshole. And Huey finds out that his best friend never forgave him for moving away and got a new best friend. The episode goes way awry and then things get weird.. Grandad remembers back to what it was that made he and his friend start hating eachother, his friend had scammed on a girl he was seeing back in the day... except his sister reminds him that he was never seeing this girl, he simply asked for her number once and never called. Then his sister shows him exactly what it was he "missed out on" (Remember that old Hag I mentioned earlier?). And then Grandad realizes the only one who threw their friendship away was him.
Huey and HIS friend get into a huge fight where Huey kicks the @#@$ out of him. But at the end things calm down. Huey then realizes that he has to be the bigger man an apologize. So he goes over to his friend's house with a fruit basket, says I'm sorry and is met with a headbutt to the nose....
"Being the Bigger man is overrated...."
It was a touching episode.. and it hit VERY close to home...
You see, in August 2004.. I left California's sunny borders to attend college in Hot'lanta. I left everything behind, my friend's, my family, my hobbies... and had to spend 7 months in social prison. I faced more racism from my own people in that 7 months than I had from white people in all my 19 years. But I had one thing in mind... I would soon come home and see everyone again.
Only.. when I came home... it was very different.
I did Guys and Dolls and things had changed a LOT. I lost my first and only best friend, the people who I had been so close to were now used to me not being around, and my family was driving me crazy. It was as though I traded one life of hell for another one. People who had been my oldest friends, betrayed me for newer ones.. I lost everything.
But watching this episode I kinda have a better idea of what happened... Or may have happened. I don't know... It can all be summed up in this poem that Huey Recites at the funeral
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility." - Kaleel Cabron.
~Kamahni