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Morgan Freeman is an actor who has received numerous awards in his career. This shows how young people are not concerned with the history of their country and only know what is shown on the media. To Riley, Morgan Freeman is more famous than Martin Luther King Jr.
The two of them don’t really have many similarities in their looks, but still…
Also, notice that Riley is referring to an actor that has the same surname as the family Freeman. And at this moment, King is having a dinner with the family.
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Rosa Parks was an African American social activist known for standing up for her rights as an African American and refusing to give up her seat in a bus so that a white man could sit.
Here we see that Robert Freeman was there with her and did it before Rosa. She just stole his fame by adding only “I am not going to move” to what Robert said.
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We already know how much Uncle Ruckus loves white people and hates the black ones, so his hatred for Martin Luther King Jr. is to be expected. Therefore, he doesn’t even approve Martin Luther’s last name. The only “king” to Uncle Ruckus is white — it’s the rock & roll legend Elvis Presley who is often referred to as “the King.”
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Reference to the 9/11 attacks upon the United States, launched by al-Qaeda. These attacks led to the death of nearly 3,000 people, plus the loss of more than 10 billion dollars for the USA.
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Martin Luther King Jr. is referring to Nas' popular hit track “Hate Me Now” that features rapper Diddy, previously known as Puff Daddy, or simply Puffy. Puffy does the hook of the song which is:
You can hate me now, but I won’t stop now
Cause I can’t stop now, you can hate me now
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“Off the chain” is a slang term used to refer to something extremely attractive, nice. This is a reference to Martin Luther King’s most popular speech “I Have a Dream,” although this man calls it “Got a Dream.”
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In fact, Granddad doesn’t know that Cristi is bad throughout the best part of the episode, because he’s too brainwashed to realize it. He falls in love with Cristi and she means everything to him. As he says:
You boys don’t know Cristal like I do. She’s a wonderful woman. She’s in my heart. She’s in my soul. I just want to be her everything.
But even after realizing that she’s no good, at the end of the episode, when A Pimp Named Slick walks into his house in search of Cristi, he still doesn’t get mad at her — she’s still good to him and after she leaves he even hopes that she’ll come back one day.
Oh, my God, with these Kodaks
Trying to stop her from getting the bozak
From getting the bozak, from getting the bozak Asheru (Ft. The Boondocks) – She's No Good
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The way that Huey takes pictures, he compares himself to paparazzi who are known to use spy cameras to photograph celebrities. And Kodak is another camera brand. Huey is using his camera to stop Cristi in getting Granddad’s bozak, which is a slang term for “ball sack.” He’s trying to prevent his Granddad from having sex with Cristi, because, as seen before in the episode, Robert already had sex with Cristi once and the boys didn’t like that.
GRANDDAD: … And for your information, children, I had relations with Cristal last night.
RILEY: Ew, come on, Granddad!
HUEY: Oh, God, please!
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From the episode The Trial of R. Kelly, it can be seen that Robert has bought his grandson Riley a pair of Nike shoes:
RILEY: Granddad, can you take us into the city tomorrow to watch the R. Kelly trial?
GRANDDAD: Hell, no, but you can walk.
RILEY: It’s 40 miles.
GRANDDAD: All the money I spent on them damn Nikes! You better just do it.
Nikon is a camera brand, and, as mentioned, at this point, Huey is taking pictures of Cristal.
Some nice wordplay with “Nike” and “Nikon” too.
