Voice actor Harry Shearer has voiced over 100 voices for the hit TV show The Simpson’s dating back to when he joined the cartoon family back in 1989. Reports swirling around the web this afternoon are saying that part of Disney’s reshuffle and purchase of the Fox brand, the mouse has decided that only black people can voice black characters.

Harry Shearer came out in an interview a few years ago and said “Every time an actor plays a, actor male or female plays a part they're playing somebody that they are not.” He went on to say “So if you apply that rule strictly um, where really out of a job”.

Disney made the decision after the show said white actors would no longer provide the voices of non-white characters, following particular criticism of Hank Azaria's voiceover of Apu.

Harry Shearer who has also voiced Mr Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner will no longer be allowed to voice Dr Hibbert, with that role now going to Kevin Michael Richardson. While all reports are saying that Mr Shearer’s will stay to continue lending his voice to Mr Burns, Ned Flanders and Principal Skinner, it’s only a matter of time before he is shown the door completely.

Disney has been in the firing line lately with a number of politically correctness issues with the company having to give warnings before some of the companies biggest cartoons such as Dumbo, Peter Pan and Jungle Book all getting a new warning stating “This programme includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures, These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.”

Other Disney films to receive a new warning include The Aristocats, which has a cat in “yellow-face” playing a piano with chopsticks.

Lady and the Tramp, which has several instances of racism and cultural stereotyping, also carries a warning.

Simpson fans have hit out on social media saying how disgraceful this is, with some saying that this is racist, as it’s a cartoon. While on Sky News Liz Storer said “What an utterly ridiculous move by the work brigade.” She went on to say “That literally firing a white guy who’s voiced this character for over 30 years. Fox fired him for being white let’s face it that’s why he no longer has this role and it bears mentioning again speaking to the irony bart Simpson’s character is voiced by a woman but of course it doesn’t matter because… Bart’s character is a white male.” Liz Storer continued to say “As long as it’s only white males being fired white males being voiced by a woman it really doesn’t matter.”

This has many people concerned that Hollywood has gone a little crazy with Liz Storer saying “Hollywood is turning itself inside out at the moment that was literally announced this guy being stepped down from that role was announced the day after they came out announcing that a black actress Jody I forget her last name will be playing in Anne Boleyn in a miniseries coming up. Now you and I both know that Anne Boleyn was very white, she was very English.” Storer continued to say “It doesn’t matter as long as it’s white people being de-platformed it’s perfectly fine."