In the wake of Roseanne Barr?s racist tweet, and the resulting cancellation of the Roseanne reboot, there have been several common responses. One of them is simple: Barr?s public support of false conspiracy theories such as Pizzagate , among other things, made people wonder why ABC was willing to risk it. Kenya Barris, the showrunner for ABC?s Black-ish, wholeheartedly agreed on this particular point. He says, "I was going to go crazy...You hired a monster and then you asked why the monster was killing villagers.?