'Since when are millions of Americans ready to wake up to the rantings of an angry black kid?'
"I want to do stuff that has a moral center—stuff that I can be proud of. But I'm not trying to be that guy, the political voice of young black America, because then you have to sort of be a responsible grownup, for lack of a better word. And it's like—you know, Flip Wilson said this, he said, 'I reserve the right to be a nigger.' And I absolutely do, at all times."
| That's a quote from cartoonist Aaron McGruder, who probably won't get invited to address the Nation (or the nation, either) anytime soon, in Ben McGrath's profile for the New Yorker, "The Radical"
Also: "Names like Sunshine, Snowflake, Sunny Boy Sam, Whitewash Jones and Ebony White"
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