It seems that people are really more pissed at Roseanne's muslim comments than they are about her reference to the Planet of the Apes. The issue is complex and there's no clear reason why Roseanne would verbally attack a relatively low level hack such as Valerie. One of the smear tactics previously used against Valerie was that she supposedly had said something to the effect that America should become more Islamic.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-a...mic-quote/
That gained traction with some people because, although she was alleged to have said it before she got a federal government job, once she was in government she did venture into foreign affairs which was outside of her official job description. That pissed some people like the secretary of defense Gates off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett So all of that was public knowledge which may have been percolating in Roseanne's brain.
Then there's the fact that she was born in Iran, which automatically makes her a muslim in some people's eyes. But she's not a muslim and claims to be Jewish, although information about her religion, if any, is scarce. https://forward.com/schmooze/135922/when...ish-roots/
As far as the Planet of the Apes is concerned she is biracial and mostly white.
"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. Among her European roots, she was found to have French and Scottish ancestry.[5] One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was the first accredited African-American architect, and the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
Roseanne is a Jew from Utah so she's a Jim Crow baby who was never exposed to other races as a youth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr She mostly likely believes in the one-drop rule.
The bottom line is that unless Roseanne specifically says that she was making a racist comment I see it more as a religious attack against someone she assumed was a muslim or muslim sympathizer.
As Madeleine Albright said = “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine K. Albright
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/make-a...mic-quote/
That gained traction with some people because, although she was alleged to have said it before she got a federal government job, once she was in government she did venture into foreign affairs which was outside of her official job description. That pissed some people like the secretary of defense Gates off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett So all of that was public knowledge which may have been percolating in Roseanne's brain.
Then there's the fact that she was born in Iran, which automatically makes her a muslim in some people's eyes. But she's not a muslim and claims to be Jewish, although information about her religion, if any, is scarce. https://forward.com/schmooze/135922/when...ish-roots/
As far as the Planet of the Apes is concerned she is biracial and mostly white.
"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. Among her European roots, she was found to have French and Scottish ancestry.[5] One of her maternal great-grandfathers, Robert Robinson Taylor, was the first accredited African-American architect, and the first African-American student enrolled at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[6]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Jarrett
Roseanne is a Jew from Utah so she's a Jim Crow baby who was never exposed to other races as a youth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseanne_Barr She mostly likely believes in the one-drop rule.
The bottom line is that unless Roseanne specifically says that she was making a racist comment I see it more as a religious attack against someone she assumed was a muslim or muslim sympathizer.
As Madeleine Albright said = “There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women."
(Keynote speech at Celebrating Inspiration luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, 2006)”
― Madeleine K. Albright
