She’s not sorry. She’s a racist.

Why Roseanne Is The Perfect Example of Why Racists Never Stop Being Racist

Ezinne Ukoha
5 min readJul 30, 2018

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Disgraced comedian Roseanne Barr is still capitalizing on her scandalous episode from almost two months ago. The former star of the newly rebooted Roseanne, was booted off her own show, after a series of venom-laced tweets that compared a notable Black woman to a primate, drew instant ire across social media platforms.

The woman who amassed a massive following with her sitcom that centered around a White blue-collar family in Middle America — was poised to repeat her enduring success as ratings for the reboot proved that ABC had invested in the right gold mine.

Trump’s America, with all the damning rhetoric directed at non-White Americans, who are accused of punishing White America with the “almost-perfect” Black president — couldn’t contain the joy that stemmed from the validation of a show, that accurately depicted their bigoted disposition in a justifiable way.

It appears that when it comes to the arena of entertainment, all bets are off, especially when a hostile climate insists that the only way to cash in is to sell out to the greed of ignorance, that permits TV executives to shamelessly celebrate the virus that attaches itself to marginalized people in America. Regardless of how we’re being systematically battered and bruised by the antics of White supremacy —…

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