kontextmaschine:

You know it’s kind of weird in The Boondocks that Tom DuBois and Grandpa live across the street from each other, given that Tom seems like he’d move to a “best schools” “favored quarter” suburb while Grandpa would not maximize cost of living. I suppose Grandpa could be doing it for the kids or Tom could merely be living in the best available neighborhood somewhere with better opportunities as a prosecutor, but in either case it’s unclear what Uncle Ruckus is doing there

Anyway the thing behind Tom DuBois, just like with Pierre Delacroix in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled (2000) was that black Americans with French names were likely descended from Caribbean immigrants who had occupied relatively privileged positions in their French colonial homelands, as contrasted with the Dixie slaves-turned-sharecroppers that most Blacks traced their ancestry to

(It was a point that “Delacroix” was an affectation in the direction of this tendency)