To use any character so transparently is shoddy – I’ve been complaining for months about Mack’s under-use, which means the writers were showing me their bad hand this whole time – but specifically for such a milequetoast show to introduce another in its short list of incidental background black characters just expressly for the pathos of killing them off is the very spirit of tokenism. Of course the black guy dies first. (I mean, once there are no more lesbians.)