Rosanne is gone!!!!

[The emperor has no clothes]

Looking into this Rosanne thing, I guess I don't see the racist part of this. It was claimed to be racist but it may not have even been close.

I'm not sure what or why Rosanne chose to comment on Valerie Jarret.

Now I follow politics a bit. I knew of Jarret and her being an advisor to Obama. When this got thrown into the "racist" mode, I was a bit confused as I had no idea Jarret was "African American".
If you Google her and see the photos of her you would be hard pressed to conclude she is an "African American" woman.

Even in one of Rosanne's many apologies she states that she had no idea Jarret was "African American"
Jarret is only part African American. She is, and has identified herself as of Iranian decent.

So what would cause Rosanne to reference "The Planet of the Apes" ?

Now I happen to find Valerie Jarret a rather cute woman. Appearance wise, of course. But even I see a likeness to one of the characters in the movie. Not all the apes or chimps but one in particular, which would be Zira, played by Kim Hunter.

Now, if you do a search of Kim Hunter and Valerie Jarret you would find that both of them have remarkable similar facial features. Put some makeup on Hunter and there you have it.

So anyway, not seeing anything racist about the comment although I do believe she was dissing her appearance in a not real funny joke.

I’m not sure how anyone could not see the racism in her tweet. For decades, maybe longer racists have insinuated black people are closer to monkeys than humans.

[Motodad71]

The African slaves were not brought here by white privileged folks, but the truth doesn’t matter for some. Yes....we had some extremely ugly and dark times in this country, as have every country on this planet. Very safe to say we have evolved and learned from our past mistakes and atrocities. The issue is that many continue to live in the past and to constantly bring up the past, and demand reparations and such for the terrible things their relatives went though. When is enough truly enough, when can deep wounds finally be allowed to heal and for progress to be accepted and understood? So many will never be satisfied or happy, their hate and animosity runs too deep. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it, and this country has come a long way and has bar none the highest immigration in the world. Safe to say that no single group of people were more mistreated and almost wiped out than the true natives here. African Americans have held the highest office and most prestigious positions in society to be had, and professional sports are also dominated by African Americans, so how can racism and inequality be as rampant as some believe it to be?

[Rams]

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What Bee said was wrong, all it does is feed fuel to the fire for the right. But it's not the same thing as Roseann getting racial. Two very different things.
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We can agree that in both cases, what was said was unwarranted and definitely tactless.   As two very different things, it depends on the viewer's perspective.   Both crossed lines that should have never been breached.   The difference I see is, the PC crowd.   YMMV

Rams

[RP#62]

Yup, two very different things.  One was an offhand comment made after hours and the other was scripted, reviewed, taped and broadcast on prime time tv.  No hypocrisy here.

-RP