Bette Midler has apologized for a tweet that caused turmoil on the social media platform on Friday. Midler reacted angrily to FBI's weekly weekly allegations of sexual harassment against Brett Kavanaugh.
Midler was upset with the FBI's failure to conduct a "full investigation" into allegations of sexual harassment against Kavanaugh, who is President Trump's candidate at the US Supreme Court.
The FBI found nothing to confirm the allegations made by some women against Kavanaug.
In a tweet last night, the 72-year-old icon wrote: "Women are the n-word of the world." Midler said it was quoted Yoko Ono who spoke the same words in a song with her late husband John Lennon in 1972.
Midler explained her thought process in her apology.
“The too brief investigation of allegations against Kavanaugh infuriated me. Angrily I tweeted w/o thinking my choice of words would be enraging to black women who doubly suffer, both by being women and by being black. I am an ally and stand with you; always have. And I apologize.”Twitter shaded Midler who used a quote that was stolen from famed Black author Zora Neal Hurston, who died in 1960.
“So Bette Midler quoted Yoko who stole the line from Zora Neale Hurston who shed light on how the Black woman is the mule of the world in her novel. But Yoko ignored that part. And so did Bette. So f–k both of them,” tweeted @nubiansweet.
@ShaniceDee wrote: “So first Bette Midler pretends black women don’t exist, and then tries to tell us to get out our feelings and that it’s not about race when she’s literally the one who brought race up??? I guess she doesn’t want us to enjoy Hocus Pocus this year…”
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