'Boondocks' cartoonist shuns white radio?

By Robert "Rob" Redding Jr.

Editor & Publisher    

    WASHINGTON, Nov. 04, 2005, 4:30 p.m. - Cartoonist Aaron McGruder today decided to scrub several interviews on white radio stations because he was unfamiliar with the shows, said a spokeswoman.

    Karen Barragan, the studio publicist for The Boondocks, said that the controversial cartoonist canceled three interviews - from California to Georgia.

    "We showed him the schedule really late at night," Barragan told Redding News Review. "He was unfamiliar with the schedule so he asked to hold of...to have it sink in actually who he is talking to."    

    McGruder, who was scheduled to tout his new television show The Boondocks on the stations, has been called the "angriest black man in America."

    But Barragan said that his anger toward white America had nothing to do with his decision.

    "We hope to reschedule," she said.   

    Still, "Everything Alternative" WNNX's morning team - which was among the stations that had their interview abruptly canceled by McGruder - told their Atlanta listeners that black stations were being given interviews over white ones.

    McGruder's new show airs on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim Sunday at 11p.m.   

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