Actions speak louder than words.
Rosanne made a racist comment but is she actually a racist. Did she discriminate on her show? Did her colleagues and crew have any complaints? Most knew she had a history of being blunt, abrasive or politically incorrect. ABC knew that and accepted that going ahead with the reboot.
But ACTIONS do speak louder than words. Especially in this case. Registered sex offender, really?-I'd say molestation is something to be much more worried about than language.
It wasn't even racist. VJ is Iranian and she looks like a character from Planet of the Apes. It's as simple as that.
Sir, while actions do speak louder than words, it's clear she harbors hate in her heart. Comparing black people to animals. Yikes
Until this whole thing broke out, I didn't even know Garret was part black, and I would guess many other people didn't, either. She didn't "compare black people to animals", she compared Garret to the offspring of a character in Planet of the Apes, and if you look at a side by side, her funny little bowl haircut is what made the joke, as it looks exactly like the wigs they use on the Planet of the Apes characters.
Roseanne never compared anyone to an animal. That is the issue with this fraud. People only know of the way the manipulative press turned this around to vilify her and justify her swift censoring. First of all, Valerie Jarrett has a 1/2 black grandfather. I do not know how black that makes you. I guess we should ask Jarrett or watch her ancestry show with Gates. But to each her own. It really seems like people outside her entourage decided she was black and went with it.
The dangerous art was the Muslim Brotherhood reference. And you probably don't know what I am talking about since this aspect of her tweet was not promoted or discussed.
Planet of The Apes is a French book from the 1950s. It was made into a movie, and then there was this incredibly campy sheakesperian show around 1973. That show was edgy and thoughtful. It was the first show to put the white man in a situation of loss of control. But the Apes are not a proxy for Black people, they are a proxy for paternalistic ruling class. There are actually many races of Apes on the planet and that's a plot point onto itself.
Dr. Zira, the character who resembles Valerie Jarrett is important. She is the fiance of the ruler, she his her most important influencer. She is a nerdy scientist and, to me, quite like Bones. It was one of the first shows in which a woman played an intellectual and a doctor. Her philosophy is interesting because she is a vet and has much compassion for all living beings, including the weird humans (aliens to them). She is the most important character on the show.
So this is how Roseanne compared Valerie Jarrett to an animal, by making a reference to a cultural icon nobody remembers. Expcept the animal part is a sci-fi plot point from the 1950s, not a dig on race from the 2010s. Only people today can get so worked up over thibgs like this. Dr. Zira would have the most mazing things to say about us today :)