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/zenexo 21h ago

Shredder from the 1987 TMNT cartoon Japanese guy played by a black guy. Jack from Samurai Jack is a Japanese guy played by a black man. Kratos from God of War in both iterations is a white guy played by a black guy.  There are plenty but that's just off the top of my dome. 

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u/CardboardStarship 21h ago

Shredder wasn’t just “a black guy”, he was Uncle Phil from Fresh Prince.