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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]]: No one ever expected Dr. King, of all people to use "the ugliest word in the English language", and yet, that's how he gets the crowd of ignorant young African Americans to finally shut up listen to him before launching into his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]]: No one ever expected Dr. King, of all people people, to use a variation to "the ugliest word in the English language", and yet, that's how he gets the crowd of ignorant young African Americans to finally shut up listen to him before launching into his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned, delivers a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E very scathing rant]] to the [[StopBeingStereotypical African-Americans who have embraced BET and nigga culture]]:
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned, delivers a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E very scathing rant]] rant to the [[StopBeingStereotypical African-Americans who have embraced BET and nigga culture]]:
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* WaxingLyrical: The rhyming portion of Dr. King's speech is lifted wholesale (with permission) from the song "Niggaz" by Asheru, the same rapper who performs the theme song.
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* WaxingLyrical: The rhyming portion of Dr. King's speech is lifted wholesale (with permission) from the song "Niggaz" by Asheru, the same rapper who performs the theme song.song.
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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]]: How Dr. King gets the crowd of ignorant young African Americans to finally shut up listen to him before launching into his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* RageBreakingPoint: It's when Dr. King finally reaches this that he stops being polite and tears into his fellow African-Americans with his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* RageBreakingPoint: It's when Dr. King finally reaches this that he stops being polite and tears into his fellow African-Americans with his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]]: How No one ever expected Dr. King King, of all people to use "the ugliest word in the English language", and yet, that's how he gets the crowd of ignorant young African Americans to finally shut up listen to him before launching into his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
* RageBreakingPoint: It's when Dr. King finally reaches this that he stops being polite and tears into his fellow African-Americans with hisTheReasonYouSuckSpeech.TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, combined with [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]].
* RageBreakingPoint: It's when Dr. King finally reaches this that he stops being polite and tears into his fellow African-Americans with his
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at the TurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, is considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at the TurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, is considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
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* BigShutUp: After trying several times to politely get everyone's attention at the party and failing, Martin Luther King lets out one of these, combined with a [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N Strike]] to get everyone's attention.
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* AnAesop: [[StopBeingStereotypical Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people.]]
** AccidentalAesop: Optimism does not make you a weaker person, even in the worst of times.
** AccidentalAesop: Optimism does not make you a weaker person, even in the worst of times.
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* AnAesop: AnAesop:
** [[StopBeingStereotypical Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people.]]
**AccidentalAesop: Optimism does not make you a weaker person, even in the worst of times.
** [[StopBeingStereotypical Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people.]]
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* FullNameUltimatum: "Doctor Martin Luther King Junior! You get out of that room and continue to fight for freedom and justice this instant!"
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* HistoricalDomainCharacter: [[UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr Take a guess who]]. Also, UsefulNotes/MalcolmX gets mentioned at least once.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], UsefulNotes/{{civil rights| movement}} leader UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], UsefulNotes/{{civil rights| movement}} leader UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A a Dream" speech.
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"Return Of The King" is the 9th episode of the 1st season of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. It originally aired on January 15, 2006.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], UsefulNotes/{{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], UsefulNotes/{{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. UsefulNotes/MartinLutherKingJr [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], {{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], {{civil UsefulNotes/{{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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-->BlackEntertainmentTelevision is [[TakeThat the worst thing I've ever seen in my life]]! [...] Music/{{Usher}}, Music/MichaelJackson is NOT a genre of music! [...] And now I'd like to talk about ''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Soul Plane]]''. [...] I've seen what's around the corner. I've seen what's over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I won't get there with you. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm going to Canada]].
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: Twice, Creator/FoxNews accuses King of being unpatriotic, for continuing to be a pacifist after the 9/11 attacks. This causes a major blow to King's public reputation.
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* StrawmanNewsMedia: Twice, Creator/FoxNews accuses King of being unpatriotic, for continuing to be a pacifist after the 9/11 attacks. This causes a major blow to King's public reputation.reputation.
* WaxingLyrical: The rhyming portion of Dr. King's speech is lifted wholesale (with permission) from the song "Niggaz" by Asheru, the same rapper who performs the theme song.
* WaxingLyrical: The rhyming portion of Dr. King's speech is lifted wholesale (with permission) from the song "Niggaz" by Asheru, the same rapper who performs the theme song.
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-->BlackEntertainmentTelevision is [[TakeThat the worst thing I've ever seen in my life]]! [...] Music/{{Usher}}, Music/MichaelJackson is NOT a genre of music! [...] And now I'd like to talk about ''Film/SoulPlane''. [...] I've seen what's around the corner. I've seen what's over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I won't get there with you. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm going to Canada]].
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-->BlackEntertainmentTelevision is [[TakeThat the worst thing I've ever seen in my life]]! [...] Music/{{Usher}}, Music/MichaelJackson is NOT a genre of music! [...] And now I'd like to talk about ''Film/SoulPlane''.''[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Soul Plane]]''. [...] I've seen what's around the corner. I've seen what's over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I won't get there with you. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm going to Canada]].
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** The angry rant creates a new wave of activism across America. Oprah Winfrey becomes president, BET apologizes for its existence, and MLK dies in the year 2020.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at the TurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, are considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at the TurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, are is considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
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** AccidentalAesop: Optimism does not make you a weaker person, even in the worst of times.
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* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at TheTurnOfTheMillennium, the TurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, are considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
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* ActualPacifist: MLKJ, of corse.
* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: In the ultimate critique on just how cynical and war-crazy America had become at TheTurnOfTheMillennium, Martin Luther King Jr.'s legendary civil disobediance, which famously changed the country for the better in the 1960s, are considered treason [[TheWarOnTerror post-9/11]].
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Unusual for a show that's already pretty cynical, but the story illustrates how pessimists ignore the benefits of idealism.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Unusual for a show that's already pretty cynical, but the story illustrates how pessimists ignore the benefits of idealism.
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* SophisticatedAsHell: MLKJ's rant. Despite angrily using profanity, he remains just as articulate and eloquent.
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* NWordPrivileges: MLKJ manages to seize the attentions of an entire crowd full of annoying partygoers with a [[PrecisionFStrike Precision N-Strike]], followed by a [[ClusterFBomb Cluster N-Bomb]]. Read the speech below for more info.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned,gives delivers a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E very scathing speech]] rant]] to the [[StopBeingStereotypical African-Americans who have embraced BET and nigga culture]]:
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned,
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-->[[SuddenlyShouting WILL YOU IGNORANT NIGGAS ''PLEASE'' SHUT THE HELL UP?!]]
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* HolidayEpisode: This was meant to be a Martin Luther King Day special.
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"Return Of The King" is the 9th episode of the 1st season of ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks''. It originally aired on January 15, 2006.
In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], {{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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* AllJustADream: ''The entire episode'' is implied to just be Huey's dream or imagination.
* AlternateHistory: Within Huey's dream, he imagines what would happen if Martin Luther King Jr. didn't die in 1968; but instead he's just unconscious for 32 years, and then he wakes up and reacts to the modern world...
* AnAesop: [[StopBeingStereotypical Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** Since 1959, Uncle Ruckus has tried throwing bricks at Martin Luther King Jr, but he kept missing every time.
** Robert remembers when he participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He sat alongside Rosa Parks in the same bus, however he wasn't recognized for his role, much to his embitterment.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Obviously, King has still yet to get used to a different world over three (nearly four) decades later.
* GenerationXerox: One of the men guarding Dr. King in 1968 looks identical to the bouncer who stops Huey and King from going into the VIP area.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned, gives a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E very scathing speech]] to the [[StopBeingStereotypical African-Americans who have embraced BET and nigga culture]]:
-->[[SuddenlyShouting WILL YOU IGNORANT NIGGAS ''PLEASE'' SHUT THE HELL UP?!]]
-->Is this it? This is what I got all those ass-whoopings for? [[IronicEcho I had a dream once]]. It was a dream that little black boys and little black girls would drink from the river of prosperity, freed from the thirst of oppression. But lo' and behold, some four decades later, what have I found but a bunch of trifling, shiftless, good-for-nothing ''[[NWordPrivileges niggas]]''. And I know some of you don't want to hear me say that word -- it's the ugliest word in the English language. But that's what I see now -- niggas.
-->And you don't want to be a nigga. Because niggas are living contradictions. Niggas are full of unfulfilled ambitions. Niggas wax and wane. Niggas love to complain. Niggas love to hear themselves talk but hate to explain. Niggas love being another man's judge and jury. Niggas procrastinate until it's time to worry. Niggas love to be late. Niggas hate to hurry! [...]
-->BlackEntertainmentTelevision is [[TakeThat the worst thing I've ever seen in my life]]! [...] Music/{{Usher}}, Music/MichaelJackson is NOT a genre of music! [...] And now I'd like to talk about ''Film/SoulPlane''. [...] I've seen what's around the corner. I've seen what's over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I won't get there with you. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm going to Canada]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: King fulfills his vow at the end of the above speech, so he spends the last years of his life in Vancouver, Canada.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson as Martin Luther King Jr.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Twice, Creator/FoxNews accuses King of being unpatriotic, for continuing to be a pacifist after the 9/11 attacks. This causes a major blow to King's public reputation.
In this [[WhatIf imaginary tale]], {{civil rights| movement}} leader Martin Luther King Jr. [[AlternateHistory survives an assassination attempt in 1968]], but he is reduced to a comatose state. King wakes up 32 years later in 2000, only to discover that the 21st century world is nothing like he hoped it would become in his "I Have A Dream" speech.
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* AllJustADream: ''The entire episode'' is implied to just be Huey's dream or imagination.
* AlternateHistory: Within Huey's dream, he imagines what would happen if Martin Luther King Jr. didn't die in 1968; but instead he's just unconscious for 32 years, and then he wakes up and reacts to the modern world...
* AnAesop: [[StopBeingStereotypical Don't perpetuate negative stereotypes about your own people.]]
* BeenThereShapedHistory:
** Since 1959, Uncle Ruckus has tried throwing bricks at Martin Luther King Jr, but he kept missing every time.
** Robert remembers when he participated in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. He sat alongside Rosa Parks in the same bus, however he wasn't recognized for his role, much to his embitterment.
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Obviously, King has still yet to get used to a different world over three (nearly four) decades later.
* GenerationXerox: One of the men guarding Dr. King in 1968 looks identical to the bouncer who stops Huey and King from going into the VIP area.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech / TakeThatAudience: Martin Luther King Jr, who has grown cynical and disillusioned, gives a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5FR1LGsT7E very scathing speech]] to the [[StopBeingStereotypical African-Americans who have embraced BET and nigga culture]]:
-->[[SuddenlyShouting WILL YOU IGNORANT NIGGAS ''PLEASE'' SHUT THE HELL UP?!]]
-->Is this it? This is what I got all those ass-whoopings for? [[IronicEcho I had a dream once]]. It was a dream that little black boys and little black girls would drink from the river of prosperity, freed from the thirst of oppression. But lo' and behold, some four decades later, what have I found but a bunch of trifling, shiftless, good-for-nothing ''[[NWordPrivileges niggas]]''. And I know some of you don't want to hear me say that word -- it's the ugliest word in the English language. But that's what I see now -- niggas.
-->And you don't want to be a nigga. Because niggas are living contradictions. Niggas are full of unfulfilled ambitions. Niggas wax and wane. Niggas love to complain. Niggas love to hear themselves talk but hate to explain. Niggas love being another man's judge and jury. Niggas procrastinate until it's time to worry. Niggas love to be late. Niggas hate to hurry! [...]
-->BlackEntertainmentTelevision is [[TakeThat the worst thing I've ever seen in my life]]! [...] Music/{{Usher}}, Music/MichaelJackson is NOT a genre of music! [...] And now I'd like to talk about ''Film/SoulPlane''. [...] I've seen what's around the corner. I've seen what's over the horizon and I promise you, you niggas have nothing to celebrate! And no, I won't get there with you. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere I'm going to Canada]].
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: King fulfills his vow at the end of the above speech, so he spends the last years of his life in Vancouver, Canada.
* SpecialGuest: Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson as Martin Luther King Jr.
* StrawmanNewsMedia: Twice, Creator/FoxNews accuses King of being unpatriotic, for continuing to be a pacifist after the 9/11 attacks. This causes a major blow to King's public reputation.
