Ok, let's squash this one. That is Grant Hill's interpretation of what Jalen Rose meant. That is NOT what Jalen Rose said.
There's an element of class distinction in what Rose is saying but it's not about the middle class at all.
How many "middle class" families do you know that feature one parent who is a four-time All Pro Running Back in the NFL who went to Yale and was frat brothers with George W. Bush and another parent who is a former roommate of a first lady/Senator/Secretary of State? Are you saying it's totally unreasonable to believe a child of that family might have a privileged upbringing?
Resenting some people who seem to have it all is hardly atypical; it's pretty normal. One of my former college roommates was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, went to Harvard law school, and is currently employed as a staff attorney by the NBA Players Association. I'm jealous as hell. And frankly who hasn't been jealous of people that they believe had opportunities and results that they never could have had access to.
Framing Rose's comments as being one of middle class resentment or two-parent household resentment is a little off. Hill's family was a lot closer to the "elite" than they were to being average schmoes.
There's probably also an element of truth to the class argument being made here. The players named in that segment of the documentary were Hill, Laettner and Hurley. First of all, you'll note that only one of the three players listed is black and that player is Hill. Bobby Hurley is basketball royalty, son of one of the most famous coaches ever. Laettner was a media golden boy during that period of time. It's a little understandable that young upstarts would invent reasons why these guys would be the villains of their personal narrative and view class as one of the dividing lenses separating them from one another.
Uncle Tom is an unfortunate term, but the internet lynch mob (to use my own racially loaded term) is being pretty hasty here given the ambiguity of the time-frame of the thought, the cut immediately following that statement, and the total rush to adopt everything about the wronged party's interpretation of the statement that may or may not be totally reasonable.
EDIT: I think Rose's clarification speaks for itself.
https://www.sportsgrid.com/media/ja...-this-duke-recruits-a-certain-type-of-player/
It's pretty explicitly about class. He says he thinks Coach K would recruit his kids and points out that Webber went to the exact same high school as Shane Battier.
