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‘Family Guy’ Hires Arif Zahir to Play Cleveland Brown!!

As animated shows wise up to the fact that they probably shouldn’t have white people voicing characters of color, Family Guy has made a long-overdue recasting by hiring a replacement for Cleveland Brown, the show’s most prominent black character. Previously voiced by Mike Henry, who originated the character and voiced it since Family Guy premiered back in 1999 (and later on the spinoff series The … Continue reading ‘Family Guy’ Hires Arif Zahir to Play Cleveland Brown!!

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‘The Simpsons’: White Actors Will No Longer Voice POC Characters!!

Back in 2017, comedian Hari Kondabolu made an extremely thoughtful and reasoned documentary titled The Problem With Apu, pointing out that the Indian-American character Apu (voiced by American actor Hank Azaria, who is of Sephardic Jewish descent) is a harmful racial stereotype that The Simpsons has been happily perpetuating for literal decades. In fact, Kondabolu goes so far as to call Apu a minstrel character, … Continue reading ‘The Simpsons’: White Actors Will No Longer Voice POC Characters!!

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