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‘Family Guy’ Star Mike Henry Will No Longer Play Cleveland Brown
Variety ^ | June 26, 2020 | Joe Otterson

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

@mikehenrybro

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.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: cleveland; clevelandbrown; familyguy; fox; mikehenry; sethmacfarlane
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Jenny Slate, Kristen Bell and now Mike Henry have quit their jobs voicing black characters. But nobody will demand that James Earl Jones's voiceover performance of Darth Vader be redubbed by a white actor.
1 posted on 06/26/2020 3:24:14 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

Black people are just laughing at this shit.


2 posted on 06/26/2020 3:26:08 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

So can we stop casting Blacks in historical movies, series and Shakespeare where they are totally anachronistic.


3 posted on 06/26/2020 3:27:20 PM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: EdnaMode

ridiculous

minorities have voiced white characters and characters of other ethnicities

i say it again, ridiculous


4 posted on 06/26/2020 3:28:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Kozak
So can we stop casting Blacks in historical movies, series and Shakespeare where they are totally anachronistic.


5 posted on 06/26/2020 3:28:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: EdnaMode

as far as apu

why didn’t any indians ever make their own characters and promote them in their own books and shows?

they don’t do anything productive on their own because tgey’d rather sit back and complain about others actually doing something while they do nothing except b1tch and moan


6 posted on 06/26/2020 3:29:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: EdnaMode

Hamilton?


7 posted on 06/26/2020 3:29:53 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: dfwgator

An actors job is to portray someone else.

On TMC I was watching a movie called “The Good Earth” about Chinese farmers. 2 Caucasian actors played the Chinese characters. They were believable. That’s what acting is.


8 posted on 06/26/2020 3:30:56 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: EdnaMode

Seth McFarland needs to give up his role as Brian. Only a DOG should play a DOG character.


9 posted on 06/26/2020 3:32:34 PM PDT by ETCM
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To: EdnaMode

So for twenty years he had no problem voicing a black character? So now that he has made his money he suddenly becomes woke? He should be forced to give up any money that he has made voicing the character. He has been stealing for 20 years.


10 posted on 06/26/2020 3:33:10 PM PDT by 98charlie
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To: EdnaMode

A few weeks ago I saw for the second or third time, “Troy”.

To my surprise neither Achilles or Hector were portrayed by Black Actors. Have they gone crazy? Where is a Black Helen? How dare they show them as they probably really were?


11 posted on 06/26/2020 3:33:44 PM PDT by yarddog ( For I am persuaded.)
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but persons of color should play characters of color.

Imagine if the opposite were true. Only whites should play white characters.

Just another example of black privilege.

12 posted on 06/26/2020 3:34:31 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: EdnaMode

Oh brother.

Using this logic, only white people should be voicing white characters. Can you imagine the screaming and shrieking that would ensue if this was followed? Of course, it would be racist.


13 posted on 06/26/2020 3:35:19 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: EdnaMode

"What you mean, I no allowed to pray Asian no more?"

14 posted on 06/26/2020 3:35:33 PM PDT by Viking2002 ("If a really stupid person becomes senile......how can you tell?" - George Carlin)
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To: pnut22

Who was the Italian guy that portrayed the Indian with a tear running down his cheek?


15 posted on 06/26/2020 3:35:58 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised but It Will Be Livestreamed)
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To: EdnaMode

Maybe they can have an episode where Brian chases all the Negroes out of town.


16 posted on 06/26/2020 3:36:26 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ("War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." - George Orwell, 1984)
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To: Kozak

How about Heimdall in Thor?
A Negro Nordic God...


17 posted on 06/26/2020 3:37:07 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Secret Agent Man

Indians are the rudest a-holes on the planet.


18 posted on 06/26/2020 3:37:56 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Iron eyes Cody.


19 posted on 06/26/2020 3:40:49 PM PDT by pnut22
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To: EdnaMode

Seth MacFarland always was destined to be targeted. He’s a prime example of a leftist who would be eaten by his own, simply because he chose to create a funny show that ridicules most everyone and anyone in a completely politically incorrect manner. Family Guy will never be the same.


20 posted on 06/26/2020 3:45:44 PM PDT by BlueStateRightist (Government is best which governs least.)
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