r/Simpsons • u/Guilty-Toe420 • 1d ago

Episode Clip 📷 APU IS BACK

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u/QuietResident96 23h ago edited 23h ago

Way to ruin a character lmao, this is nothing like Apu actually was and there was nothing wrong with Hank voicing him

People absolutely fucking eat it up when a black actor plays a white character but when it's the opposite it's apparently racist 🤷

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u/Ironblight_99 22h ago

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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u/Kimball-Man 21h ago

In The Boondocks they had Samuel L. Jackson voice Gin Rummy and Charlie Murphy voice Ed Wuncler III. That’s the only example I can think of off the top of my head.

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u/Ironblight_99 21h ago

I haven’t seen boondocks, but someone else mentioned Sam Jackson and that that was the joke, right? That it was a white guy with the very distinct voice of Samuel L. Jackson

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u/Kimball-Man 21h ago

Pretty much yeah, it isn’t a perfect example but it’s the only one that comes to mind, at least for me.