Michael B. Jordan Calls Out Roseanne Barr
While accepting his award for Best Villain at the MTV Movie & TV Awards, Michael B. Jordan took time to absolutely shade Roseanne Barr.
"I'm shocked that I won this award for Best Villan," he started by saying. "I thought for sure Roseanne had that in the bag."
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He's referring to Roseanne Barr, whose Roseanne reboot was cancelled earlier this year after she made racist remarks on Twitter. In a now-deleted tweet, she wrote that former White House aide Valerie Jarrett was as if “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby=vj.” She later apologized for the tweet, but ABC was quick to cancel her show anyway.
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values," ABC's network president Channing Dungey wrote in a statement. "And we have decided to cancel her show."
The show had been picked up for a second season before Roseanne's Twitter statement.
Michael, who won Best Villain for his role as Erik Killmonger in the all-black Black Panther, obviously thought her racism, directed at a black woman, was more deserving of his villain title.
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