Civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., commended ABC for canceling “Roseanne” after the show’s star, Roseanne Barr, made a racist comment about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett on Twitter.
“Thank you, @ABCNetwork. You did the right thing. There is not any room in our society for racism or bigotry,” Lewis tweeted.
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Thank you, @ABCNetwork. You did the right thing. There is not any room in our society for racism or bigotry.
— John Lewis (@repjohnlewis) May 29, 2018
ABC Entertainment announced Tuesday it had canceled the reboot of “Roseanne” just hours after Barr tweeted “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj,” a reference to Jarrett.
Barr later apologized for the comment, saying it was a “bad joke” that was in “bad taste.”
But ABC said the comedian’s statement was “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent” with its values, and decided to cancel her show.
