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The Boondocks mocks Nelson’s time periods by sarcastically exaggerating their presence within the show, attempting to combat the typical ways that blacks have been represented on television and catalyzing a new category of black representation which I will name Faux Assimilated Hybrid Minstrelsy. The Boondocks, which exemplifies this category, uses visual and linguistic patterns to display three distinct character types to portray African Americans: 1) Well Rounded black characters, 2) hyper-stereotypical black characters, and 3) white characters with stereotypically black traits. By juxtaposing well-rounded black characters––which were not seen in American media until Nelson’s fourth period (1944)––with stereotypical black characters and stereotypically black white characters, The Boondocks portrays a diverse representation of African Americans and in doing so, demonstrates the falsity of earlier representations of African Americans and suggests that the association of stereotypically black traits with black people is actually a fallacy.