{"id":4103,"date":"2018-07-28T01:46:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T01:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/151.106.38.4\/2018\/07\/28\/wish-i-worded-it-better-roseanne-barr-on-racist-tweet\/"},"modified":"2018-07-28T01:46:37","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T01:46:37","slug":"wish-i-worded-it-better-roseanne-barr-on-racist-tweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/2018\/07\/28\/wish-i-worded-it-better-roseanne-barr-on-racist-tweet\/","title":{"rendered":"Wish I worded it better: Roseanne Barr on racist tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Actress-comedian Roseanne Barr says her racist tweet “cost her everything” and she wishes she had worded it “better”.<\/p>\n

Barr has apologised to people for her tweet about former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, an African-American woman. The comment had generated immense backlash and led to the cancellation of her US comedy show “Roseanne”.<\/p>\n

During her hour-long interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News on Thursday, Barr lamented the damage done to her by the tweet, reports The Guardian.<\/p>\n

In response to the tweet “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby vj” that she has written earlier this year, Barr clarified that people misunderstood it and said she would tell Jarett: “I’m sorry that you feel harm and hurt, I never meant that. I never meant to hurt anybody.”<\/p>\n

Barr repeatedly said her tweet was meant to address US-Middle Eastern policy and had no racial overtones. She said she was stunned by the negative reaction, which Hannity noted was nearly universal, The Guardian reported.<\/p>\n

“I am a creative genius, and this is not a good feeling for an artist to be treated this way, and it’s not a good feeling for a citizen, either,” Barr added.<\/p>\n

A supporter of US President Donald Trump, Barr further said: “I’m not a racist and the people who voted for Trump, they’re not racist either, and Trump isn’t a racist, sorry. We just have a different opinion.”<\/p>\n

Television network ABC has announced “Roseanne” will return in October as a spin-off called “The Conners” with all the main characters except Barr.<\/p>\n

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