I& #39;m so tired. So many people looking at the Jenny Slate recasting going "race shouldn& #39;t matter in the VO industry! This is the one acting profession where anyone can play anyone!" You& #39;re right, it shouldn& #39;t. But it does. And everyone IN the industry knows it.

We deal with it on every casting call we don& #39;t see, and every black or POC character handed to us without audition. I& #39;ve been luck enough to not only be cast as POC characters in my career, but that doesn& #39;t mean there isn& #39;t a problem.

10 specific examples of POC actors playing Non-POC roles don& #39;t negate the hundreds of POC VAs out there who only get relegated the token roles. Who always play the gangster, or the criminal, or the rapper.

I shouldn& #39;t only be reading for POC casting calls, but often I will go for stretches of several months where the only auditions I get are for POC characters. Meanwhile, my NON-POC colleagues read for anime I& #39;ve never heard of, and never even read for.

This is not a made up problem, and pulling up examples from 20 years ago doesn& #39;t excuse it either. If you& #39;re not in the industry, please don& #39;t assume you know how it works.