The survey of 1,990 registered voters was conducted May 31-June 4, after ABC canceled the sitcom “Roseanne.” The network’s move came after show star Roseanne Barr, a white woman, posted a tweet targeting Jarrett, a black woman who was a senior adviser to Barack Obama during his presidency.
When voters were shown Barr’s tweet -- “Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj," a reference to Jarrett -- 77 percent said it was racist, with 90 percent of Democrats and 66 percent of Republicans taking that position. Thirteen percent of voters said it wasn’t, while 10 percent said they did not know or had no opinion.
Barr later deleted her tweet and apologized to Jarrett, calling the post, “insensitive & tasteless” and saying in another since-deleted tweet that she was “ambien tweeting.” In a separate post, Barr said she’s “not a racist, just an idiot who made a bad joke.”
The poll also found that 45 percent of respondents said that when someone makes racist remarks, it usually means they are racist, a viewpoint shared by 66 percent of Democrats. Forty-four percent of voters, including 64 percent of Republicans, disagreed.
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