‘The Simpsons’: White Actors Will No Longer Voice Poc Characters (After Ignoring Years of Complaints)

Back in 2017, comedian Hari Kondabolu made an extremely thoughtful and reasoned documentary titled The Problem With Apu, pointing out that the Indian-American character Apu is a harmful racial stereotype that The Simpsons has been happily perpetuating for literal decades.

In fact, Kondabolu goes so far as to call Apu a minstrel character, and it’s hard to disagree with him.

It seems like the show has finally decided to listen, and from now on will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters.

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