Wanda Sykes Quits ‘Roseanne’ Producing Gig Due to Roseanne’s Racist Tweet

EXCLUSIVE

Wanda Sykes is following Whitney Cummings out the door of "Roseanne" — but her exit is a direct response to Roseanne Barr's racist attack on an Obama aide, a woman who's a close friend of Wanda's … TMZ has learned.

Wanda kept it short and sweet, saying … "I will not be returning to ['Roseanne']." The timing is no coincidence, coming within an hour of Barr's apology for calling an Obama adviser the product of "muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes."

A source close to Wanda tells us Roseanne's tweet is "100 percent why [Wanda] quit." We're told Wanda and Valerie Jarrett, the Obama adviser, are friends … and hung out together as far back as 2009, when Wanda hosted the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

Wanda was a consulting producer on the hugely successful reboot, which is returning for a second season — but, clearly, with some producing changes.

Earlier this month Whitney, who was an executive producer, announced she was leaving because she was too busy with other projects.

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