List of The Boondocks characters

Main characters

The Freeman family

Huey Freeman

Riley Freeman

Robert Freeman

Secondary characters

DuBois family

• Thomas Lancaster DuBois – Tom DuBois is an attorney who lives across the street from the Freemans. He is an African-American whose character is a stereotype of a successful white-collar middle-class black man. Easily frightened, Tom adheres strictly to the law, though Huey mentions that Tom's job as a prosecutor sends other black men to the very fate he most fears. His character can be interpreted as an "Uncle Tom" as he is seen as having turned his back on his black heritage to marry a white woman, producing a mixed-race child, and becoming a prosecutor who often convicts black people. In line with the show's complexity, the name "DuBois" may be an homage to W. E. B. Du Bois, however, on the show it is pronounced in the French as "Dew-bwah" as opposed to the American English "Duboyce", putting his character in a state of conflict. For example, in one episode, the neighborhood watch was convinced of the Freeman family's guilt in a string of local break-ins due to their reluctance to speak to the police, and Tom, rather than acquiescing, confronted the neighborhood watch with the ridiculous nature of their accusations. Tom was at one point the unwilling vessel for Stinkmeaner, after Stinkmeaner's escape from Hell. Stinkmeaner was eventually exorcised, which returned Tom to normal. Various episodes depict Tom as a supporter of LGBT rights, gun control, or at least proper gun registration, and the protection of intellectual property. Tom had a fear of being anally raped in prison up until Season 3, Episode 8, "A Date With the Booty Warrior", where he overcomes his fear by beating his attempted rapist, the Booty Warrior, in a fight.
• Sarah DuBois – Sarah DuBois is Tom's white wife. She is comfortable about their interracial marriage even when Tom is mocked for it, as in "The Trial of R. Kelly." She even jokingly says to Tom, "I told you about messin' with them white women." Sarah and her daughter are Usher fans, which makes Tom jealous. Several episodes imply that Sarah is sexually frustrated. When Tom gets jealous over her flirting with Usher at their anniversary dinner, Sarah selfishly and cruelly threw him out of their house.
• Jazmine DuBois – Jazmine DuBois is Tom and Sarah's biracial daughter. She can be extremely paranoid and a bit naive, making her an object of ridicule for Riley. Jazmine was shocked by both the September 11 attacks, and hid in her room for two years as a result, in the comic strip, and after finding out that the tooth fairy is not real. She is a strong believer in Santa Claus, viewing him as the true meaning of Christmas, to the point where she dreams of preaching the gospel of Santa to the masses. Jazmine likely has an unrequited crush on Huey, since she follows him around, though he can sometimes be cold toward her. Despite being cold toward her at times, as the show progresses, Huey warms up to her, forming a friendship and even taking her in to keep her safe from the apocalypse in the episode Fried Chicken Flu. She first appears in the episode "The Trial of R. Kelly".

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• Uncle Ruckus – Uncle Ruckus is the main antagonist of the series. Overweight, with a grotesque appearance and a glass eye, Uncle Ruckus idolizes black-slave culture, and his views of black people align with the views of white racists. He is self-hating, disassociating himself from his African-American heritage as best he can, and biased against all non-white people. His greatest wish is that black people were still enslaved, because he believes that they were better off then. His name draws on the character Uncle Remus, the fabled raconteur from African-American folktales like Song of the South. He claims to be white because of a mythical disease, called "re-vitiligo". Uncle Ruckus seems to be a white supremacist, as shown in "The Red Ball," where he claims that Ed Wuncler Sr.'s "White leadership" helped the team win the game, and he refers to a Chinese man as a "yellow nigga". Ironically, he is the show's darkest-skinned character. His character is a hyperbolic parody of the self-hating black man. However, as much as he may hate black culture, other episodes show him socializing with the Freemans. In "…Or Die Trying", he demonstrates a mastery of the nunchaku and hand-to-hand combat. In "The Uncle Ruckus Reality Show," he is horrified to learn via a DNA test that he is 102% African, with a 2% margin of error. The knowledge of his true heritage causes him to quit all of his jobs and adopt other behaviors that conform to his racist views. Later in the episode, he is shown false documents stating that he is 50.07% white, after the executives in charge of the show become upset over the plummet in ratings that Ruckus' behavior caused. He is told the original results were performed by a black intern, and were erroneous. In "The Color Ruckus", the possible reason for his hatred towards black people is revealed. As a child, he was subject to frequent physical abuse from his drunken father, Mister Ruckus, and raised with the belief of his re-vitiligo and white man history by his loving mother, Bunny Ruckus. Although Mister later stated that he was really an accidental birth and his skin condition was a deluded hoax, Ruckus still retained the belief that he was adopted and originally white. In "Good Times," Uncle Ruckus starts his campaign to run for mayor.