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Kristen Bell And Jenny Slate Resign From Playing Black Cartoon Characters
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essence.comBig Mouth, while Bell portrayed Molly on the Apple TV+ show, Central Park. “At the start of the show, I reasoned with myself that it was permissible for me to play Missy because her mom is Jewish and white — as am I.
But Missy is also Black and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,” Slate wrote in a statement she released Wednesday on her Instagram page. “I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed,” continued Slate, “that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy, and that in me playing Missy, I was engaging in an act of erasure of Black people.” Slate added that as a comedian she’s “made mistakes along the way,” but “I can’t.
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