05-30-2018, 11:54 AM
As Sally indicated, Roseanne has been known as a racist for a very long time, probably for as long as she's been in the entertainment industry. There is a picture floating around of her standing in front of an oven dressed as Hitler holding a baking sheet of burnt cookies. It's not like she hid anything so I'm left with the impression that her conduct was acceptable as long as she painted with a broad brush and generalized. It wasn't until she targeted specific individuals that she ran into trouble. That's purely a guess on my part. I have no way of knowing why ABC and her management felt that this time was a line crossed.