Michael Caesar is a fictional character from the comic strip The Boondocks, created by Aaron McGruder

Aaron McGruder

Aaron McGruder is an American cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip about two young African American brothers from inner-city Chicago now living with their grandfather in a sedate suburb, as well as being the creator and executive...

. Caesar was Huey's

Huey Freeman

Huey Freeman is a fictional character of The Boondocks syndicated comic strip written by Aaron McGruder, as well as the main character and recurrent principal narrator of the animated TV series of the same name...

 classmate and best friend during the comic strip's run. Formerly from Brooklyn

Brooklyn

Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs, with nearly 2.6 million residents, and the second-largest in area. Since 1896, Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County, which is now the most populous county in New York State and the second-most densely populated...

, New York

New York

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, he was moved to the fictional predominately white

White people

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 suburb

Suburb

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 of Woodcrest under circumstances similar to Huey's; in which typically results in him needing little prompting to vocally represent his hometown. He and Huey have co-founded the newsletter The Free Huey World Report and the annual Most Embarrassing Black People Awards.

Character description

Though Caesar shares similar ground with Huey in many social and political aspects, he often tends to possess a more optimistic, jocular outlook in life, and usually prefers to cheerfully mock whatever issue is at hand. For example, Caesar believes that all then-U.S. Secretary of State

Secretary of State

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 Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice

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 needed was a boyfriend, reasoning that if she came to truly love somebody living on the planet, then she wouldn't be so "hell bent to destroy it."

Caesar is also an aspiring MC and budding comic who enjoys challenging Huey to the dozens

The dozens

The Dozens is a game that has its origins in African American slavery. The game originates from the devaluing and bargaining off of deformed or defective slaves in auction houses. This element of the African American oral tradition in which two competitors, usually males, go head-to-head in a...

 contests, though such attempts have always miscarried.

While it was stated he would be present in the third season during pre-production, he has not yet appeared on the animated TV series

The Boondocks (TV series)

The Boondocks is an American animated series created by Aaron McGruder on Cartoon Network's late night programing block, Adult Swim, based on McGruder's comic strip of the same name...

. However with an unexpected surprise for fans - a season 4 in production after indicating season 3 was their series finale - that might change.