https://deadline.com/2021/02/the-simpsons-replaces-harry-shearer-black-actor-voice-dr-hibbert-1234698565/
well, since the Dr. Hibbert of the past 35 years isn't black enough, I do hope he'll be speaking in jive and wearing gold chains now, so that we know he's not just black, but Black.
Because he's black, you know. That's all that you need to know about him. He's black.
The Simpsons has become everything it used to satire. Cruel irony.
shareI was so hoping this was another joke. Sadly it isn't. I am hispanic and have never had issue with a white person voicing or portraying a hispanic in film, music and television. What a joke our world has become.
shareNow they have to replace Dan Castellaneta with an idiot. White actors need to dye them self orange too!
shareBlack people can portray white people in Hamilton but white people can't play black cartoon characters. Also a woman does Bart's voice. PC culture has gone stupid.
shareI was about to mention how black comedians routinely portray white people, and white people never have a problem with it (not that there ARE black or white people, as people are not their body's skin color, but even if they were, 'brown' and 'pink' would be closer to the truth anyway)
PC culture means people that know how to use computers.
Political Correctness doesn't HAVE a culture.
I hate when people hijack terms that were there first. PC means Personal Computer, CRT means Cathode Ray Tube. Stop making those words mean something stupid, they have a long history of meaning something brilliant.
Exactly. How can they justify replacing a white actor voicing a black character, with a black actor, but not a female actor voicing a male character, with a male actor? So many double standards.
At the end of the day it is acting. That's what acting involves, portraying characters regardless of how different the characters are from you.
Just another reason why this once great show should be cancelled.