Didn't you hear what happened to Peter Hoffman last week?' Huey: 'Go ahead and call me what you want, but I'm not sledding down this hill. In the end, Huey concludes that it is best to accept flaws for what they are instead of rewriting history, which unfortunately for him leads to this.
After Ronald Reagan's death, Huey and Caesar have a conversation about selective memory and how idols and important people have their poor traits whitewashed after death.To make this funnier, eventually Huey does end up believing in Santa Claus.The capper is classic Boondocks irony: Tom and Huey hash it out, and Huey points out that even if Jolly Jenkins was fake, he likes to remember a certain unjustly killed revolutionary at Christmastime (read: Jesus).
It's one of the earliest examples of Tom losing it. In the strip's earlier days, Huey gets annoyed by Jazmine's childish enthusiasm about Santa Claus, and instead convinces her that the real Santa is actually an imprisoned black man named 'Jolly Jenkins' - he then continues to push this mostly for the sake of trolling Tom.
