“Indian-American” Comedian Makes a Documentary About The Simpson’s “Racist” Apu

If you are a Millennial then there’s a good chance that you grew up watching The Simpsons.

“What, that unfunny cartoon that promotes faggots and attacks Reichsführer Trump?” asks Generation Zyklon.

Calm down, young ones! You see, back in the 1990s, when Pluto was a planet and incoming phone calls disconnected Internet connections, The Simpsons was actually pretty good.

Yeah, it contained subversive elements (notably in its portrayal of the sexes), and some hook-noses were involved in its production, but for the most part, it was a White-written show that produced some classic scenes and one-liners.

However, not everyone found The Simpsons funny. One of those people is Hari Kondabolu, an “Indian-American” comedian who often wakes up at night, screaming and covered in sweat, because of its “racist” Apu character.

Daily Mail:

A new documentary that’s set to air on TruTV reveals how much Indian-Americans like actor Kal Penn hate The Simpsons for their portrayal of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the owner of the Kwik-E-Mart on the show.

For 28 years, comedian Hari Kondabolu says he’s been dealing with his feelings about Apu. His documentary seeks to question ‘how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its away into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist’.

In a recently released trailer for the documentary, The Problem With Apu, Kondabolu addresses the ‘one-note racist’ portrayal of the character.

The documentary will explore the cultural impact of the show’s character, which is why Kondabolu sat down with Dana Gould, the former writer and co-executive producer for The Simpsons.

‘There are accents that by their nature to white-Americans sound funny, period,’ Gould tells Kondabolu in one of the scenes.

‘It’s funny because it’s racist,’ Kondabolu says in the trailer. Kondabolu also pointed out that the actor, Hank Azaria, who voices Apu, is actually white.

‘Right away they asked: ‘Can you do an Indian voice and how offensive can you make it?” Azaria says in a clip of from an interview featured in the documentary.

You’ve got to laugh at the ridiculousness of this story.

Hari Kondabolu’s ancestors were from the only nation on Earth that might be worse than Africa: a place where people add spices to food to disguise the taste of rotten meat, where streets are toilets and toilets are shrines, and where a sizable portion of its poverty-stricken population dream of reaching America’s shores on a giant floating poppadom (or ship, whatever).

Yet here this man is in America, liberated from the poverty of his homeland thanks to the White man’s kindness, and “he’s been dealing with his feelings” about a cartoon character “for 28 years.”

This is what being second generation does to these Third World invaders.

Listen, Mr. Kondabolu: Apu’s “controversial caricature” was created because your people act like that. He reflects your people’s accents, mannerisms and preferred profession. If the mirror bothers you, go back to your native India.

Actually, go back to India even if the mirror doesn’t bother you.

Mr. Kondabolu would have an apoplectic fit if he watched Glengarry Glen Ross.