You'd assume high-profile celebs would think twice before posting racially charged messages
on social media and sending questionable statements out into the Twitterverse.
But that's apparently not always the case.
Here are some stars who should definitely have thought twice before they tweeted.
Roseanne Barr
Perhaps no celebrity's career was as swiftly and completely derailed by a racist tweet
as Roseanne Barr's.
The '80s TV star was riding high with her immensely popular Roseanne reboot, but that
came to a crashing halt when she went on a bizarre rant in 2018, slamming former President
Barack Obama's White House adviser Valerie Jarrett.
According to CNBC, Barr tweeted,
"Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby = vj."
She was immediately labeled as racist, but she shot back,
"ISLAM is not a RACE, lefties.
Islam includes EVERY RACE of people."
As for how Roseanne felt right after the backlash?
"The first thing was shock that they were saying it was racial when it's political."
She also argued that her comment was just "a joke."
Her show's network, ABC, didn't find her tweet so funny and pulled the plug on her show.
The ABC Entertainment president said, per The Independent,
"Roseanne's Twitter statement is abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values,
and we have decided to cancel her show."
Amber Heard
Amber Heard was met with serious disapproval after making a tone-deaf joke on Twitter in
July 2018.
According to E! News, she tweeted,
"Just heard there's an ICE checkpoint in Hollywood, a few blocks from where I live.
Everyone better give their housekeepers, nannies, and landscapers a ride home tonight."
As could be expected, the comment was not perceived warmly, and the Aquaman star soon
deleted her tweet.
But rather than apologizing, she sent out this message instead:
"With this human rights crisis being so politicized, it is hard to make a simple statement [without]
it being used to distract from the real issues.
It's hard for everyone to not be negatively affected by this subject [in] some way."
She went on to respond to a number of critics personally.
When one user tweeted that Heard doesn't know much about police checkpoints because she
probably lives in a luxurious gated community, she fired back,
"I grew up with those checkpoints, but that was miles from the border.
Fortunately I don't live behind gates (or fences) but I do live around and alongside
many people who face that fate if this continues to escalate."
Rihanna
Singer Rihanna took fans by surprise in 2012 when she allegedly made a racist joke about
ex Chris Brown's girlfriend-at-the-time Karrueche Tran amidst rumors that she and her former
flame had reunited.
The supposed shade came in the form of a photo showing a bag of rice cakes accessorized with
sunglasses and hoop earrings, which Rihanna captioned,
"Ima make u my b----."
As HuffPost noted, the line was a lyric from the song "Birthday Cake," a single that she
recorded with Brown, and the image may have been a knock against Tran, who is half-Vietnamese.
According to Radar Online, Tran shot back on Facebook, writing,
"Let me clear the air, if you have fenty at the end of ya name or your default is Rihanna
you have a better chance of winning the lottery than ending up on my friends list."
However, the model later told the outlet that the comment didn't come from her because she
doesn't have a Facebook page.
Chelsea Handler
When HuffPost invited Chelsea Handler to take over their Twitter account and post live commentary
during the 2014 Academy Awards, the publication likely didn't expected her to dole out a number
of racist comments.
It all started when Lupita Nyong'o won best supporting actress for 12 Years a Slave and
Handler quipped,
"[Angelina Jolie] just filed adoption papers #lupitanyongo."
After the film won best picture, Handler continued on with the controversial comments.
Promoting the release of her book, Uganda Be Kidding Me, the comedian tweeted,
"Congratulations [12 Years A Slave] Go to Africa or buy [Uganda Be Kidding Me]."
Twitter didn't find Handler very funny, with many followers voicing their disappointment.
As for HuffPost, the Senior Executive Director for Communications quickly pointed out to
The Grio, quote, "the views [expressed by Handler] are not ours."
Interestingly enough, the publication wouldn't go on to delete any of the racially charged
tweets.
Israel Broussard
The same week that To All The Boys I've Loved Before premiered on Netflix in August 2018,
making Israel Broussard a star, the actor was knocked off his pedestal faster than he
had gotten on it, when fans unearthed some extremely upsetting and questionable tweets
in his Twitter history.
According to Refinery29, Broussard's tweets included all kinds of racist comments, including,
"Hashtags don't f---ing matter.
But all lives do.
Black lives matter.
White lives matter.
Police lives matter."
According to Pride, he also tried to joke,
"Dogs can sense earthquakes.
Too bad Japan ate them all."
While Broussard did issue an apology, fans weren't having it.
One user called him "trash," while another tweeted, in part,
"I will definitely not be watching the netflix film or any film starring you any time soon."
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