The wokening of “The Simpsons” continues, as another white voice actor will step down from his role voicing a minority character.
Harry Shearer, who has voiced the character of Dr. Hibbert since the long-running cartoon’s second season in 1990, will step away from his role and be replaced by a black voice actor, the Wrap reported Monday.
“Last night’s episode ‘DiaryQueen’ featured Harry Shearer as the voice of Dr. Hibbert for the last time,” 20th Television, the studio that produces “The Simpsons,” said in a statement. “Next Sunday’s episode ‘Wad Goals’ will have Kevin Michael Richardson voicing Dr. Hibbert — and from there on out he will voice the character.”
The recasting decision follows an announcement from “The Simpsons” last June that the show would no longer have white actors voice its characters with different skin colors. The decision was made after Black Lives Matter protests and Antifa riots erupted in the wake of George Floyd’s death.
As long as they are going woke:
To avoid charges of Ageism, children’s voices should be done by children the exact chronological age, race and gender of the characters.
They should do Ancestry searches of the characters and have voice actors with identical backgrounds provide the character voice.
Voice actors should closely emulate the height, weight, IQ and BMI of the characters they speak for.
Commercial sponsorship (commercials) of the should only be done by products used on the show, for example Duff Beer.
Not to mention 31 years of reparations to every black or fractional black actor registered with the Screen Actors Guild during that period of time. Each should be paid as much as the white usurper received for each episode he was in. Plus back interest since they were planning to buy Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Tesla and Google stock with their pay at initial issue prices, back in the day.
/sarc, or not?
The White “ usurper “ which is a racial slur freed the slaves that were brought here by the English thanks to black muslim slave traders… How much should you pay to the families of these brave Americans who died fighting Democrat racism ???
Better go back and revoice Mufasa with a real lion before PETA gets upset….