In all seriousness, this is sad as all git out. Our supposed betters are all surrendering without a single shot being fired.
Posted on 06/26/2020 3:24:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Mike Henry is exiting his role as Cleveland Brown on “Family Guy.”
Henry made the announcement Friday on Twitter. “It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years,” he wrote. “I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role.”
Henry has been with “Family Guy” its first season in 1999. In addition to Cleveland, he also voices Consuela, a Latina maid, on the long-running animated series in addition to numerous other minor characters. Henry also voiced Cleveland and his Black stepson, Rallo Tubbs, on the spin-off series “The Cleveland Show,” which aired on Fox for four seasons from 2009 to 2013.
He is now the latest white actor to announce they will no longer voice a character of color on an animated show. Jenny Slate announced on Wednesday that she would no longer play the biracial character Missy on the popular Netflix show “Big Mouth.” Not long after that, Kristen Bell announced she would be stepping down from her role as a biracial character in the upcoming Apple animated series “Central Park.”
Back in January, Hank Azaria said he would no longer voice the Indian character Apu on “The Simpsons.” Calls for Azaria, who like Brown has voiced the character for decades, to stop playing Apu intensified in 2017 after comedian Hari Kondabolu released the documentary “The Problem With Apu.” The doc explored how people of South Asian descent felt about growing up with Apu as one of their only representatives on American television.
Mike Henry
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It’s been an honor to play Cleveland on Family Guy for 20 years. I love this character, but persons of color should play characters of color. Therefore, I will be stepping down from the role.
I know, they are laughing at all the white idiots bowing down to them..its idiotic..I hear white fools saying “we need to give blacks reparations” well fine no one is stopping them from opening up their wallets and paying them now
Most of them are. They do have funny aspects, but mostly these “cartoons” are vile and low-class debauchery, often with extra Marxist proselytizing thrown in.
I hate things like this that suck in children.
yo mama!
Did he ever hook up with the green chick from Star Trek?
Not sure why Rush ever went on that show..the way they trashed Sarah Palin’s son, and the vile episode about President Trump..they would have NEVER done that to Obama..not EVER..the only episode that was good is when Quagmire told Brian Griffin off, called out his liberal hypocrisy, now that was good
I’m not sure if Eddie left comedy or comedy left him.
In all seriousness, this is sad as all git out. Our supposed betters are all surrendering without a single shot being fired.
Well, it seems to be working.
Probably a combination of both. I still love watching “Delirious” and “Raw”.
Buckwheat is dead!
And Texxon is there!
ROFL! I love it! Honestly this points out how stupid all this paranoia is.
And truthfully, he looks like Lionel Richie. So, not totally sure he’s “white”!
He also kinda looks like my dad, but much more hair! My dad is Germanic but probably some Slavic ancestry!
So, when will they re-cast down the play, “Hamilton”?
I doubt black people (or Indian people or any other people portrayed by whites on TV) care about this nearly as much as white liberals do.
Will Seth McFarlane step aside so an actual gay baby can voice Stewie?
Hamilton!
When the cast changes, let me know...
What about Nancy Cartwright playing Bart Simpson?
The real question is will Sebastian Gorkha stop voicing Stewie?
Cartoons are all going to sound like guys from Ohio.
I was recently watching a TV show about 18th century Russia. There were several black cast members. They played Russians. Since little in the series was “serious” it wasn’t really noticeable. I hate when they “force” an “African” into an Anglo story (see any of the latest Robin Hood movies.) But these were just characters. They fit the role.
That is what color-blind casting is.
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