Rosanne Barr posted a tweet early Tuesday comparing former Barack Obama aid Valerie Jarrett to an ape, and now Rosanne consulting producer Wanda Sykes has announced that she’s leaving the show. In a since-deleted post, Barr said, “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” A short time later, the namesake star of Roseanne — who has used the same racist comparison for other people on Twitter before — apologized to Jarrett and to “all Americans” for “making a bad joke about her politics and her looks” before saying she was leaving Twitter in a separate post. About an hour and a half after that, Sykes made her own social-media announcement about leaving the show.
I will not be returning to .
Wanda Sykes (@iamwandasykes) May 29, 2018
from Vulture Latest News http://www.vulture.com/2018/05/wanda-sykes-exists-roseanne-after-star-posts-racist-tweets.html?mid=rss?mid=vulturelatest
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