And that’s what actresses Kristen Bell and Jenny Slate have done, stepping down from their voice over work for animated characters of color.
Jenny Slate voices the character of Missy Foreman-Greenwald, a biracial girl on the animated series on Netflix “Big Mouth.”
But ‘Missy’ is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people.
I acknowledge how my original reasoning was flawed 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.
Kristen Bell, who also voices a Black character on the animated show, “Central Park,” followed Slate’s example.
