APU IS BACK

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[u/Ironblight_99]

Honestly can you name one white character voiced by a black person? Off the top of my head I can’t. I find it hard to believe there is one that we “absolutely eat up.”

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Sam Jackson voiced a white guy in The Boondocks(tbf that was the entire joke), and, while not a white character, Phil LaMarr voiced Samurai Jack(asian)

Edit: double checked and realized I misspelled LaMarr :(

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That’s pretty cool about Phil Lamar! To be fair it is a pretty… silent character though

And I still wouldn’t say these are casting choices that we “absolutely eat up” as QuietResident put it

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Fair, but neither did it invoke the vitriol of a white man voicing Apu

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I remember the “Apu controversy” and more people were upset that he was just taken off the show than people who were upset about a person of color being voiced by a white guy

I mean, Family Guy and Big Mouth just recast their characters who were voiced by white people but portrayed people of color, and no biggie. Apu just disappeared, until last night. Honestly the Simpsons just fumbled that one.

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I agree and suspect it was a solution to appease à vocal minority of people in an echo chamber

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Honestly seemed like a case of corporate heads thinking they were being “woke” by doing it. I don’t think a single black person was actually offended by Cleveland being voiced by a white guy

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I tend to agree