Mike Henry to stop voicing Black
character on 'Family Guy'
Associated Press,
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/28/2020 12:33:38 PM
Los Angeles—“Family Guy” voice actor Mike Henry said Friday he is stepping down from the role of Cleveland Brown on the Fox animated series. Henry wrote on Twitter that he will stop playing the show’s main African American character because “persons of color should play characters of color.” The 54-year-old voice actor, who is a white man, has voiced the character since the series’ debut in 1999.(Snip) His decision comes after voice actors Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell—who are white—pulled out of their roles to recast their biracial characters with someone of color.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Safari Man 6/28/2020 12:36:42 PM (No. 459981)
So much for the content of his character.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Enoch Powell 6/28/2020 12:39:52 PM (No. 459988)
How noble. Actually how cowardly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 6/28/2020 12:42:30 PM (No. 459992)
He needs to keep working so he is trying to cooperate with the spoiled brats at the moment. So how long until the iconic Bart Simpson gets a new voice? Anyone here realize that Bart is actually voiced by a FEMALE? And a white one at that.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Griller1 6/28/2020 12:51:38 PM (No. 460006)
I'm sure he's going to give back all of the money he's made as well.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 6/28/2020 1:03:35 PM (No. 460019)
I never watched the show and can care less. Political correctness is a mental disease that spreads faster than the coronavirus. Sadly it kills the persons spiritual being and that is fatal. Step away from your brain and look at what your idiotic twisted thinking is agitating you to get up and go do. Then pray to God and ask Him to restore you to sanity.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 6/28/2020 1:09:30 PM (No. 460031)
Just how soon do you think they'll be going after the television show Modern Family? It featured two homosexuals in a relationship. One of the actors was homosexual the other actor was heterosexual.
3-2-1.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 6/28/2020 1:15:15 PM (No. 460043)
So - - I guess the black actor who plays Alexander Hamilton on Broadway - - is out of a job.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Smart11344 6/28/2020 1:29:03 PM (No. 460058)
Many decades ago, on the radio, a very popular comedy show, Amos and Andy. The characters were black, but their voices were done by the two creators of the show, who were white. As a kid, I thought nothing of it and it was not common knowledge the radio actors were white. When it became a TV show they did use black actors.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
marbles 6/28/2020 1:31:42 PM (No. 460060)
It's ACTING............. people pretending to be other people . Or some cases, animals. Still, that's what acting is.....pretend.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
envirodude 6/28/2020 1:39:01 PM (No. 460069)
Will he give away all the money he made from his role? I didn’t think so.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
davew 6/28/2020 2:00:28 PM (No. 460085)
The most important point is not who was voicing the Cleveland Brown character but how he was portrayed as the only African American one. The real value of the show was to show that both white and black working class people can have meaningful long term friendships that honestly deal with their differences over time. This is the real "fantasy" part of the show. It is exceptionally rare that white and black working class people live or work together with such frequency and intimacy given our preferences for housing, schooling, religious worship, or socializing. The positive message of this show has now been demeaned by this shallow virtue signalling that is only viewed with cynicism and amazement by actual people of color.
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Amos and Andy is still unWOKE, not PC funny because of the acting.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
anniebc 6/28/2020 2:21:49 PM (No. 460106)
Let Hollywood take the lead on this. Leftist media clowns and Washington political leftist next. Once they're all gone, then we can stop the madness.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 6/28/2020 2:47:25 PM (No. 460126)
So only Catholics can portray priests, only Republicans can portray Trump, and only weasels can portray Democrats. Got it.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Norway 6/28/2020 2:48:00 PM (No. 460127)
Idiot. We're all humans, children of God. How about anyone can play anyone they want to?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Cindiana 6/28/2020 3:09:33 PM (No. 460137)
...but Annie can be black. Got it!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
4Justice 6/28/2020 3:44:47 PM (No. 460148)
My cat demands to play Garfield because only a cat should play a cat.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
DVC 6/28/2020 5:07:38 PM (No. 460186)
It's a garbage lefty cartoon.
I hope it collapses and fails.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
SALady 6/28/2020 9:21:53 PM (No. 460311)
If he truly feels regret, he needs to take every penny he has made playing a black character and give it to black people.
Come on, you woke lie-beral idiot, put your money where your bogus white guilt is!!!! And if you have already spent it, take out some loans. This is getting serious now!!!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/28/2020 11:45:30 PM (No. 460359)
what?? Cleveland Brown's voice was done by a white man??
Next you'll be telling me that Stool Bend Virginia doesn't exist...
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