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While ABC has given the thumbs up for a second season of the Roseanne reboot, the show’s star has decided to repay them by sending out a slew of racist and xenophobic tweets calling Valerie Jarrett an “ape.”
Yes. You read that correctly. In 2018, Roseanne Barr had the audacity to call a Black woman an ape.
Responding to a series of conspiracy theory tweets about former President Obama and Jarrett, the 65-year-old comedian said in a now-deleted tweet that Obama’s former senior advisor was the result of “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.”
https://twitter.com/lauriecrosswell/status/1001474388393385986
Of course, folks on Twitter were heated and had words for Roseanne, ABC and even Wanda Sykes, a Black woman who is a consulting producer for the show:
https://twitter.com/SorayaMcDonald/status/1001475434754838528
https://twitter.com/Muna_Mire/status/1001478504234577920
https://twitter.com/Sifill_LDF/status/1001474366046121984
https://twitter.com/MuslimIQ/status/1001477365741088768
https://twitter.com/jwheels74/status/1001477850430656512
https://twitter.com/iwrotegudomelet/status/1001462304670613511
Of course after getting blasted, Barr is walking back her statements by apologizing and saying it was all just a “joke.”
“I apologize to Valerie Jarrett and to all Americans,” Barr wrote on Twitter. “I am truly sorry for making a bad joke about her politics and her looks. I should have known better. Forgive me — my joke was in bad taste.”
https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1001471669641216005
Girl, bye. That, and a word of advice: It isn’t a joke if the only people laughing are you and white supremacists.
As many of us know, this isn’t the first time that Barr has shown her true colors on social media.
Over the years, the avid Trump supporter’s Twitter feed has been rifled with conspiracy theory tweets about Hillary Clinton and Obama, xenophobic language and images and retweets from white supremacists and Alt-Right folks. Take a look at some of her finest retweets:
https://twitter.com/LionelMedia/status/1001302082517860352
https://twitter.com/WLouT2/status/1001250068069081089
https://twitter.com/WayneDupreeShow/status/999617027366060033
We wonder if ABC is paying attention or do they even care?
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