Actress Viola Davis played a maid in the film “The Help,” and during “How to Get Away with Murder,” her new show on ABC, People magazine published this tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n
viola will always be a maid to some people, and that's extremely unfortunate. @peoplemag<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/6rC12e19Sc<\/a><\/p>\n — Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n After some heavy criticism, People deleted and apologized for the tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n Apologies for the earlier tweet. We love HTGAWM & The Help, where that quote was from. But it was stupid & insensitive. Won't happen again.<\/p>\n — People magazine (@peoplemag) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Reaction to that apology? Mixed:<\/p>\n\n\n @peoplemag<\/a> and what about an apology for @violadavis<\/a>. She was the object of your classless, humorless statement<\/p>\n — Shelley Winters (@SMW220) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @peoplemag<\/a> it wasn't insensitive…you were just quoting a line we all love.<\/p>\n — ZachAttackFrankStar (@Snowballx) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n .@peoplemag<\/a> terrible apology. Who the hell runs your social media? Fire them right now.<\/p>\n — Leah (@leahtakele) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @peoplemag<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nDDGuWoCLU<\/a><\/p>\n — Ella Septima-Hamer (@Jbrous14) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @peoplemag<\/a> It was a fuckin quote from her biggest film.. Chill the fuck out everyone. Geez..<\/p>\n — Kenny (@IKennyR) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n Ay @peoplemag<\/a>… Y'all need some sensitivity training or something. Maybe y'all shouldn't have beefed w\/ your only blk editor. Do better..<\/p>\n — Ama Jane (@The_Black_Jane) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @RhonRuns<\/a> @frankibabi<\/a> @peoplemag<\/a> They quoted a well know line from the help…it wasn't even like…insensitive. *shakes head*<\/p>\n — ZachAttackFrankStar (@Snowballx) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n\n\n @peoplemag<\/a> "stupid and insensitive" you mean… Racist? viola has been in many other things besides the help… But that's what you pick…<\/p>\n — ✨Sirius✨ (@__Stellaaaar) September 26, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n \n Last night, People also deleted a tweet about actress Kerry Washington<\/a> during the show “Scandal.”<\/p> Read more: http:\/\/twitchy.com\/2014\/09\/26\/people-magazine-deletes-apologizes-for-stupid-insensitive-tweet-about-viola-davis\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/itsjustdebb\/status\/515339830452961280 Actress Viola Davis played a maid in the film “The Help,” and during “How to Get Away with Murder,” her new show on ABC, People magazine published this tweet: viola will always be a maid to some people, and that's extremely unfortunate. @peoplemag pic.twitter.com\/6rC12e19Sc — Tracy Clayton (@brokeymcpoverty) September 26, 2014 After some heavy … Continue reading People mag apologizes for ‘stupid & insensitive’ tweet about Viola Davis<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29863,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[84,6826,868,103,6825],"class_list":["post-29862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-media","tag-people-magazine","tag-tweet","tag-twitchy","tag-viola-davis"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/14931783587885-deleted-tweet-of-the-day-square-version.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}