re: animated series, did those people ever watch Family Guy? Doesn't seem like it. While Cleveland is a slow-talker who seems to be under the thumb of sassy, bossy black women (Loretta who cheats on him with Quagmire, then a miscellaneous girlfriend whose one line was "shut up Cleveland"), I don't see many negative stereotypes.

Also, the show makes fun of stereotypes, negative attitudes and tokenism in a way that gets some viewers to probably re-examine their own views without being remotely preachy.

For the tokenism, I love the BlAccu (instead of Accu) Weather Reporter Ali Williams as well as "Asian reporter Trisha Takanawa." The weather reporter gives short responses, i.e. "It's gon' rain." Trisha humps the leg of David Bowie and says something along the lines of "I love you long time. I make you fish soup." If at any point, you watched absurd amounts of television, you get it. This is especially true for the stereotypes of Asian and Asian-American women. My jaw drops when I see some of some of these things. Watch M*A*S*H*

The problem of course is that some people who have had little exposure or interaction to people of other backgrounds will probably miss the point.

Are all of the characters going to be voiced by white actors ala Cleveland?

I don't know if I should be happy or scared.

Daria of GBW, another avid Family Guy viewer. I don't know if it's good or bad that I have seen every one of those scenes that you mentioned.
I'm not to sure about an African-American version of the show. It will be controversial though. The family dog would be a pitbull.
I'd watch.

I liked Family Guy at first but then things about it started to bug me. Like how in some episodes there were jokes about Black people but there weren't any in the whole episode. It just seemed like they wanted to tell racist jokes. Then there was this episode where the baby reaches for Clevland's hair and says "I'm going to touch it, I'm going to touch it" and when he does he says "Ewww it feels like wool". That was it for me. I think all this crap started with South Park and the idea White people put forward that if you make fun of everyone then its not racist. It fooled a lot of us into watching shows made by White people, with only only one Black character (who isn't in every episode)and listening to them insult us. I'm not falling for it anymore. To me its like the boss making jokes about himself and his employees. Its not the same when the employees joke about the boss. There is a power difference that makes it not okay.

what BT said.