The Simpsons will no longer use white actors to voice ethnic minority characters, the producers of the long-running animated series announced Friday, June 26. “Moving forward, THE SIMPSONS will no longer have white actors voice non-white characters,” Fox Studios said in a statement to AFP. The series, launched in 1989, has a number of coloured characters that are voiced by white actors. The recurring character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, a grocer of Indian origin, is voiced in the American version …