Created and designed by cartoonist Aaron McGruder, Ruckus gained substantial popularity after appearing in the 1996 comic strip of the same name.

His mother, Bunny Ruckus had an identity crisis which often led her to criticize fellow African-American people and have a high opinion of white Americans.

One of his most notable traits is his internalized racism; he is an outspoken white supremacist and even claims to be an Irish-American who suffers from "reverse vitiligo”.

In The Boondocks, Ruckus is portrayed as having a comical, intense hatred of anything related to African-Americans and goes out of his way to distance himself from them, especially those of older generations.

Although Ruckus had an abusive father, the main cause of his offensive personality and hateful view of the world is his mother who loved him deeply, but suffered from an inferiority complex coupled with extreme internalized racism.

Despite a lifetime of abuse and poor decisions, her conviction that her life would have been better had she been born white resulted in Ruckus wishing that the African-American population was still enslaved or never existed at all.

Ruckus frequently expresses white supremacist views and makes derogatory comments about Michael Jackson, calling him a "lucky bastard" for his skin condition, vitiligo.

In a flashback from when he was 20 years old in 1959, he is seen protesting against Martin Luther King Jr.'s marches during the civil rights movement and occasionally throwing bricks at him.

Another flashback scene shows Ruckus serving on a Tennessee jury in 1957 that succeeded in convicting a blind black man of supposedly shooting and killing three white girls, with a Winchester rifle from about 50 yards away.

During his first encounter with the Freeman family, Ruckus sings "Don't Trust Them New Niggas Over There" in the pilot episode, though he socializes freely with them afterwards.

Despite Woodcrest's newfound acceptance of different ethnicities, the neighborhood apparently does not find Uncle Ruckus' racist beliefs problematic.

Ruckus has held a wide variety of jobs during the series such as a school bus driver (sometimes driving Huey and Riley to school), car parking valet, police officer, maitre d', janitor, gas station attendant, movie theater usher, and exorcist, as well as working at many of the town's establishments.

At one point, he joined the police force after turning down a seven-figure settlement for being wrongfully shot at 118 times, claiming that the officers "were simply doing their job".

Although he is elderly and obese, Ruckus is shown to be strong enough to pull a car door off its hinges with ease and is an advanced practitioner of martial arts.

His father harshly claimed these explanations were lies meant to protect Ruckus' self-esteem, telling his son that he was "just another black nigga like the rest of us".

[9] The David Brothers of ComicsAlliance expressed concern that a film about the character might not be effective as a racial comedy outside the context of The Boondocks.