...who was not actual ape. The person she was referring to is not an actual black person.
Therefore it was never racist but a random comment made on another person's looks, a person who actually resembles in full-detail Zira from The Planet of the Apes.
People have been mentioning other people's looks since the beginning of time, it's not a crime.
That's right, it's not a crime, and Roseanne didn't get arrested.
Roseanne Barr represented ABC by being the lead star of one of their prime time shows, and she got booted for acting like a petulant child in public and mocking someone else's appearance. That's grade school crap she pulled.
She knew better, she caused other people to start walking off the show, starting with a producer, and in response, the show ended up getting canned.
Agreed.
shareI agree! Not a crime but deserving of punishment. Very unprofessional of her and also very self centered, she does not think of the rest of the cast when she pulls that type of crap! No one will take her back on TV now.
shareTrump has been very unprofessional and he still has his job. I am not saying he should lose his job, but others have said things in the past and weren't fired because of it. Rosanne should sue.
shareRight. It's not a crime. They just threw her into a river to see if she floats...
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According to Roseanne she didn’t even know that she was black. To be fair, the woman doesn’t even look black. She just has a black grandparent.
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No, Valerie Jarrett looks semitic(which she is). Though I will admit that what she said was anti-semitic with the Muslim Brotherhood statement.
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You’re honestly the only one who thinks she actually looks black. You sound like you never seen or heard of semitic people.
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No, Valerie Jarrett looks semitic(which she is). Though I will admit that what she said was anti-semitic with the Muslim Brotherhood statement.No, Valerie Jarrett is NOT Semitic. Neither are either of her parents Semitic. share
There was another poster who weighed in on Ms. Jarrett and I provided the following response that I am copy pasting to you:
I hope you're not saying that Ms. Jarrett is full black 'cuz anyone with eyes can see that she has a lot of white or other non-black components in her genetic make-up, whether mid-eastern (including North of the Sahara) or whatever.Irrelevant, non-sensical and historically unaware statement. What does FULL black even mean in the USA?
Jarret is more Euro than Afro. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
Her parents are both African-American. On the television series Finding Your Roots, DNA testing indicated that Jarrett is of 49% European, 46% African, and 5% Native American descent.
Jarret is more Euro than Afro. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_JarrettThe vast, vast majority of People of Color in the USA are NOT 100% African and are varying ranges of ethnic mixes and skin tones.
If you didn't create arbitrary rules about who is allowed to be called a monkey, you wouldn't have to stuff people into those tiny little boxes of yours.
Have you ever heard a black man refer to himself as a "POC" outside of politics?
Poor taste for sure. She deserves everything she's got coming to her. If she hung up her hat 20 years ago I would sing a different tune, but she's a total piece of shit now.
shareZira from Planet of the Apes is not an ape???
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Zira_(APJ)
A person in a mask is not an ape. Now, if she had compared her to Clyde from Every Which Way but Loose.....
share...who was not actual ape. The person she was referring to is not an actual black person.
Therefore it was never racist but a random comment made on another person's looks, a person who actually resembles in full-detail Zira from The Planet of the Apes.
Just throwing it out there. I don't think the tweet was racist. The word "racist" has been thrown around so much lately that it's basically lost it's meaning.
I agree with you regarding the term "racist". It truly lost all meaning. Worse, most people don't even use it correctly or understand the definition.
As for the comparison, it was definitely to the ape face and not the actress. Whether or not race was a factor is all conjecture.
Roseanne is not racist because it was not a statement about Africans, but an individual. Never said Jarrett was an ape.
She compared Jarrett's look to a fictional Humanoid-Ape character. Their masks make them look emotionless.
Here is a long article by Sci-Fi author Sarah Hoyt on Roseanne and Marxists: https://pjmedia.com/trending/stop-buying-the-lefts-pseudo-freudian-analysis/
It is really amazing how Republicans/Trump supporters will go to such extraordinary lengths to defend and support their racism,. and conversely to complain about and try to point out and make nasty comments by Liberals into racism. Of course this only works for very stupid people, who Trump recognizes and manipulates so easily.
sharePlot twist: I'm not a Trump supporter, just a fan of the classic television show Roseanne.
shareOf course you are, Trump supporter, troll, same difference.
None of the so-called points makes any difference.
What I wonder about is why Tom Arnold says she wanted to
end the show and how he would know?
The left's phony outrage over this only shows their immaturity and their hate. They were just words, they don't hurt anyone. If Valerie Jarrett hadn't been such a disgrace I'm sure Rosanne wouldn't have said it.
shareShe shouldn't have been fired. I am in no way a fan but it didn't affect her ability to do her job.
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