Token Black
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| Token Black | |
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| Gender: | Male |
| Hair: | Black |
| Age: | 9 |
| Job: | Student |
| Religion: | Roman Catholic |
| First Appearance: | "Cartman Gets An Anal Probe" |
| Voiced By: | Adrien Beard |
Token Black is a fictional character on the animated series South Park. He is voiced by Adrien Beard.
Originally known as Token Williams, he is the only African American in the main characters' class. His name comes from the phrase "token minority," typically used to describe non-white persons thrown into small roles in TV shows and movies for the sole purpose of character diversity. In an intentional juxtaposition of racial stereotypes, Token and his parents are said to be the wealthiest family in South Park; his father, Steve, is a lawyer and his mother, Marie, is a chemist.
Token wears a light purple shirt with a letter "T" in light orange and a pair of dark gray pants. The only other classmate of minority racial origin is Kevin, who is Chinese and rarely speaks. In the episode "Here Comes the Neighborhood," Token's last name is said to be "Williamson," but in episodes "Quest for Ratings" and "Wing," his last name is said to be "Black." The South Park creators may have either forgotten or deliberately changed it, due to Token being the 'token black' child in South Park.
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[edit] List of Major Appearances
[edit] First Appearance
Token's first major role came in episode 401, entitled "Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000," when the FBI considers Cartman's hitting Token with a rock a hate crime. However, Token has been seen in cameos before, starting in the first episode.
[edit] Here Comes the Neighborhood
In episode 512, "Here Comes the Neighborhood," Token is being bullied by his classmates because his parents are rich; his dad makes at least US$200,000 per year, they live in a house four times as big as the other houses in South Park and he has lobster in his lunch box. Token tries to blend in by wearing cheap clothes bought at J-Mart (a parody of K-Mart), instead of Armani Exchange, but does not really succeed. Token then writes to a real estate developer so there will be more rich kids in South Park. Eventually Will Smith, Kobe Bryant, Snoop Dogg, Oprah Winfrey, and P. Diddy all come to live in South Park, with their children (who play polo and speak with British accents). Feeling he doesn't fit in with his poor friends or his new rich friends, Token decides to live with lions, however, he finds them annoying as they laugh at too many jokes that aren't even funny. (The chief of the lions is named Aslan, who parodies Aslan from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe). He then finds his old friends in the street who ask him to play football. Token winds up finding acceptance with the other boys, though is picked on for being overly sensitive about being picked on for being rich. Mr. Garrison successfully incites the regular 'poor' people in South Park to start to discriminate and protest against the inflow of rich people by calling them "richers", burning large wooden "lowercase t's" (for 'time to leave, richer!') in the rich people's yards, and scaring them by dressing up as ghosts (in white sheets that look eerily similar to KKK outfits), since rich people are supposedly afraid of ghosts (a la "A Christmas Carol"). Finally all the rich people move away and Mr. Garrison plots to sell all their houses to become rich. When others point out that would make him become what he himself hated, he replies, "Well, yeah, but at least I got rid of all those damn ni---", and is cut off by the credits before he can finish his final word.
[edit] Christian Rock Hard
In episode 709, "Christian Rock Hard," Token was the bass player for Cartman's Christian rock band, Faith + 1. Token didn't know his family even owned a bass guitar until Cartman told him to go check in his basement, because, "Every black family owns a bass guitar." When told to play the bass guitar Token replies that he doesn't know how. Cartman tells him "You're black, you can play bass" — Token tries and discovers he plays flawlessly and is clearly irritated at having discovered this. He ends up beating up Cartman at the end of the episode.
[edit] Relationship with Wendy
In episode 714, "Raisins," he steals Wendy Testaburger from Stan, who flips him off because of it. However, it seems probable that their relationship was not as long-lived as Wendy's relationship with Stan, as they haven't been shown together again (he was also shown with other girls at the party in Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset).
[edit] Talents
[edit] Music
Token can play bass guitar quite well (much to his own annoyance), as seen in the episode "Christian Rock Hard". He also has an excellent singing voice, as seen in the episode "Wing". Oddly enough, he also sang a ballad in "Here Comes the Neighborhood", but did not sound nearly as impressive as he does in "Wing" (probably mimed in "Wing"). Cartman attributes both his talents to the fact that he is black (like the musically-inclined Chef).
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| Stan Marsh | Kyle Broflovski | Eric Cartman | Kenny McCormick | Butters Stotch | |||||
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| Gerald and Sheila Broflovski | Grampa Marsh | Ike | Jimbo Kern | Stuart and Mrs. McCormick | Richard and Mrs. Tweek | Liane Cartman | Randy and Sharon Marsh | Shelley | Stephen and Linda Stotch | Kyle Schwartz | |||||
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| Big Gay Al | Dr. Doctor | Dr. Mephisto | Mayor McDaniels | Ned Gerblansky | Officer Barbrady | Priest Maxi | Sergeant Yates | Tuong Lu Kim | Mr. Slave | |||||
| South Park Elementary staff and students | |||||
| Students: 6th Graders | Bebe | Clyde | Craig | Dougie | Jimmy | Kevin | Kindergarteners | Pip | Timmy | Token | Tweek | Wendy Staff: Chef | Mr. Adler | Mr. Mackey | Mr. Slave | Mrs. Garrison | Ms. Choksondik | Ms. Crabtree | Nurse Gollum | Principal Victoria |
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| Jesus | Mr. Hankey | Saddam Hussein | Satan | Terrance and Phillip | Towelie | Chef's parents | |||||
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