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Sarah DuBois

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Sarah DuBois is a major character in The Boondocks.

She is the wife of Tom DuBois and mother of Jazmine DuBois.

History[]

Sarah's grandmother had Patterson's disease, which was cured by the organization Ebony Brown was in.

Personality[]

Sarah is shown to be more sexually active and assertive than Tom, which leads to strains on their relationship - such as when he refused to "lighten up" and have a little extra wine on their anniversary due to his prison rape phobia, and a flashback shows that even when he gives it all in the bedroom to the point where he's sweating from head-to-toe and out of breath, she simply isn't sexually satisfied by him.

While it seems that Sarah has extremely little to no respect for Tom and seems to "regret" marrying him, she does in fact love him. This was seen when she was worried when he was nearly attacked by prisoners. She "dominates" the marriage and acts as the reigning authority in the household. This is a part of her personality best exemplified in the cancelled video game's concept art, where she's brandishing a crossbow and protecting their daughter while Tom is cowering with a lacrosse stick. She also displayed a considerably self-centered side as she blatantly flirted with other men such as Usher while knowing how much it upset Tom.

Sarah, like her husband, is liberal and fiercely political. She focuses her efforts on political action against the conservative parties. She is extremely usual about her interracial marriage, even going so far as to joke about it when Tom is mocked and attacked for it.

She was, however, embarrassed when a lawyer accused Tom of hating black women simply because he was married to her. Sarah is a member of the NAACP and a self-proclaimed "crusader for Black rights". She and Tom have also clashed over her support for Ralph Nader.

Relationships[]

Tom DuBois[]

Although she openly loves Tom, Sarah is revealed to be somewhat frustrated due to his lack of confidence, uptight attitude and inflexibility. She appears to fantasize about stronger, successful black men like Usher and Michael Jackson. Despite this, she does reveal concern for her husband on several occasions, such as "A Date With the Booty Warrior" and "The Fried Chicken Flu".

In "The Trial of R. Kelly", Sarah is seen witnessing the eponymous trial, of which her husband acted as the prosecutor. She ends up being embarrassed by R. Kelly's lawyer, who calls Tom out for marrying a white woman, which was irrelevant to the case but ended up a major breakthrough in acquitting the offending singer. That said, Sarah ends up taking it on the chin, as when Tom is walking back to his car, head hung in shame, Sarah makes a crack about him "messing with them white woman", to which they embrace with their daughter.

In "A Date With the Health Inspector", she expresses disappointment that Tom deleted all her pirated Usher .mp3s, and frustration that Tom's irrational fear causes their marriage to be very frigid as Tom isn't willing to take even basic, non-illegal risks out of fear of being arrested.

In "The Itis" and "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy", the DuBoises are shown to regularly attend Sunday dinner with the Freemans.

In "Tom, Sarah and Usher", Tom and Sarah try to enjoy a fancy dinner together, but Tom's straight-laced attitude towards drinking and bringing up his fear of anal rape in public annoys Sarah. When she notices Usher attending the restaurant, she nervously giggles, prompting Tom to sing a song about "Sarah's Smile" out loud, inviting awkward glances. Usher calls her over and recites the same song, causing the other guests to applaud him. As Usher charms Sarah while she ignores and downplays her relationship to Tom, her husband sits and watches, completely emasculated. They have an argument about Sarah's fangirling in the car, prompting Sarah to get out and walk home. They later get into another argument which ends in Tom getting kicked out. Sarah also calls Tom in the middle of his very embarrassing musical number of "Let It Burn", noting that this is apparently a thing he frequently does. In a memory, Tom reminisces on having sex with Sarah, however, while Tom was shown as exhausted and sweaty, Sarah was on the other side casually reading a book (complete with glasses) and without any signs of fatigue, implying no sexual satisfaction on the latter's half of their marriage.

In "Stinkmeaner Strikes Back", Stinkmeaner takes control of Tom's body and, coming home, expressed his desire to have sex with Sarah. Sarah appears both surprised and delighted to hear that, asking her possessed husband just what got into him to make him so bold. He then carried her into the bedroom where they had, from the sound of it, much-needed, mutually pleasurable wild sex.

In "Ballin'" and "The Red Ball", Sarah and Jazmine show their support for Tom by attending games he coaches or plays. They show mutual excitement watching their husband and father win, particularly in the latter game where he gives a surprisingly great kick. However, the moment is ruined by Tom being struck out by a kickball to the head in the midst of his gloating.

In "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman", Werner Herzog takes note of their frigid marriage, as Sarah constantly debuffs Tom's flirting and shows a great admiration and lust for presidential elect Obama, which clearly makes her husband very insecure. The couple only manages to snag one ticket, which Tom gives to Sarah, prompting Herzog to ask Tom if he fears she will have an affair with Obama. Tom calls it "impossible", but Herzog asserts that he asked if he was afraid of it happening, not the possibility.

In "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy", the DuBoises are seen making brunch for Robert when an army of Stinkmeaners break in. Sarah gets grabbed through the wall, and when Tom tries to save her, Robert pulls him back, claiming that "he'll find another white woman". Sarah, in response, calls Tom a "punk-ass mother-", despite the fact that he tried to save her and was pulled away against his will. This turns out to be a nightmare Robert had and likely not a reflection of Sarah's feelings should a similar situation happen in reality.

In "A Date With the Booty Warrior", Sarah is proud of Tom for his improvement in therapy and his desire to face his fears head-on, but doesn't want him to do it just to "prove anything". When the field trip to prison goes pear-shaped, Tom frantically calls Sarah in a blubbering wreck. Sarah insists that Tom let the authorities handle the riot, as "bravery isn't his thing", but Tom decides to head back in to save the children he abandoned.

In "The Fried Chicken Flu", Sarah and Tom drop by the Freeman residence, begging to be let in to see their daughter and to share resources. When Tom gets sick with the flu thanks to eating buffalo wings, Sarah is extremely worried for her husband, trying her best to stay calm and refusing to leave his side. When the Freemans and DuBoises pile into Robert's car, Sarah pleads with Robert to slow down to account for Jazmine and an ailing Tom. When they crash into the local Kernel's Fried Chicken, Sarah is worried she's sitting on Tom (odd considering he was in the trunk).

Their marriage improves considerably as of the events of "Pretty Boy Flizzy", since Tom has gotten over his fear of anal rape and asserted himself to Flizzy, making him somewhat less afraid of going all out.

Jazmine DuBois[]

Sarah and Jazmine have a pretty standard suburban mother-daughter relationship. Jazmine is the one character Sarah is most seen with, second to her husband Tom. Usually Jazmine is seen sitting alongside her mother or in her lap.

In "The Trial of R. Kelly", Jazmine is attending the trial with Sarah to provide Tom with some moral support.

In "The Itis", they are seen eating together, with Jazmine telling her mother that she feels sleepy.

In "Tom, Sarah, and Usher", it turns out that, while Sarah undoubtedly has a crush on Usher, she wasn't planning on acting on it and was instead trying to get close to him to give Jazmine a chance to meet him, as she's an even bigger fan of him than her mother. Sarah clearly isn't too happy about Tom acting violent in front of their daughter either.

In "Ballin'", she watches Tom's junior basketball game with Jazmine, cheering his team on. When the Ball-A-Holics lose the big game and Tom has a profanity-laden rant, Sarah covers her daughter's ears. They similarly watch Woodcrest's kickball game with Wushung in "The Red Ball", of which Tom is playing in. They're impressed by Tom's surprisingly great kick, only for Tom to get knocked out by a ball as he gloated.

In "The Fried Chicken Flu", Tom and Sarah plead to be let into the Freeman residence partially because Jazmine is there. During the weeks that pass by, Sarah can be seen tending to Jazmine's hair and holding her in her lap. Both Sarah and Jazmine show great concern for Tom when he falls victim to the flu, and refuse to leave him behind.

In the scrapped video game adaptation, she can be seen brandishing a crossbow while holding Jazmine in her other arm, showing some motherly protectiveness over her daughter.

Trivia[]

  • In her first appearances in season 1, Sarah had a clean-cut, overtly Animesque design. She was redesigned to appear in line with the rest of the show's designs beginning in season 2, resulting in messier hair and a more "exhausted" appearance.
  • Sarah, like Jazmine, is an Usher fangirl. They are both also big fans of Pretty Boy Flizzy.
  • She called Tom a "punka** motherf*****" during Huey's grandfather has a dream in "Stinkmeaner 3: The Hateocracy"
  • Sarah is the only one that still likes Obama at the end of "It's a Black President, Huey Freeman".
  • Sarah begins to play a more prominent role in the series as it progresses, making more frequent appearances in Season 3 of the show.

Appearances[]

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

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