'I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist,' Slate told BuzzFeed's News O'Clock podcast.
on Tuesday,"which is, I think, a scary word for white people to say because they couldn't feel like it means 'Oh, I'm a bad person,' you know, or 'I'm the same as the person that drove the car through protesters.'"
Slate said the decision to no longer voice the role of Missy, a young Black girl on the animated series, felt like a tangible action she could take toward change — beyond protesting and posting to social media — at such a critical moment in history. "I think I, as a white person, was looking around the world in the last couple of months and thinking,," Slate said."And there can be shame and other feelings that come into that. But those are, at least for me, the impetus to make the change."last month to step back from the role. She said at the time that she had reasoned she could play Missy because the character's mother is Jewish and white, just like her.
"But 'Missy' is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people," she said in her."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.
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