"The Color Ruckus"
We always wondered why Uncle Ruckus hated black "or his own" people so much. This episode before the season finale explains it all.
When Ruckus was a baby he was left on the steps of a black family's house because his original white family (racists) saw that he was beginning to form darker skin. They showed a birthmark on baby Ruckus and it very well looked like he was turning black. Ruckus' soon-to-be parents (a woman who wants to be 'white so bad that she made her hair blonde and eventually colored her eyes blue and a father who is happy that money was attached to the offer) decided to take him.
"This ain't no regular baby, this is a WHITE baby," said the adoptee's mother. "It's the most beautiful thing in the whole wide world."
Ruckus' family saw him as a Godsend and a chance to get a piece of the "white man's glory." When they were celebrating his arrival the confederate flag hung strong in the background. The symbol of the Confederate flag is a piece of history that some Americans are tragically still proud of. The confederate flag is a symbol still used by nazis and KKK members as a reminder that they slowed down the process of black folks right of freedom while the north moved ahead.
At a young age Ruckus began to turn black. His mother called it a case of re-vitiligo (the reverse of what happened to Michael Jackson's skin post "We Are the World.") Ruckus began to hate most black people and blamed all of his shortfalls on the color of his skin.
The story proceeds with the death of this grandmother and painful memories of his family's past.
Riley said that he was getting emotional from Uncle Ruckus' story but reiterated that he wasn't going to "cry because he wasn't gay." He ended up crying in the end. Riley is a hopeless mimic of black straight man media and culture and it plays out in his every move. Its entertaining but on the same token he is blind to reality. He needs to read some Frederick Douglass, Franz Fanon, Malcolm X.
Ruckus closed the scene by stating even though him and his family made amends he still concluded by saying that black people are "hopelessly inferior to white folks." Old habits are hard to kick.
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