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Here’s Why Black Women Take the High Road
This week, Roseanne Barr—a bona fide racist—was outed, fired and hung out to dry. Former Barack Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett was the butt of a tasteless, racist joke. And at MSNBC’s Everyday Racism town hall, Jarrett had a few words for Barr. “I think we have to turn it into a teaching moment,” Jarrett said.…
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Judge of Characters: Stop Wypipo 2018
Let’s all collectively take our minds off the very racist and problematic wart on America’s flabby white ass, Roseanne Barr’s peak caucasity, and focus on a few other wypipo in the world who need to be stopped. She exhausts me, but honestly, all wypipo do. From white people with dreadlocks LOCKING THEMSELVES TOGETHER to white…
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Roseanne Barr Says She Begged ABC to Let Her ‘Make Amends’
Roseanne Barr just can’t stay away from Twitter, but it makes sense that she has to find something to spend her time on nowadays since she’s out of a job. In a series of now-deleted tweets, Barr explained how she was in full grovel mode with ABC executives when it came to trying to keep…
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Bill O’Reilly Blames Roseanne for Proving That White Racism Is Alive and Well in America
Y’all, Roseanne Barr has pissed Bill O’Reilly all the way off. He is upset by the racist comment she made about Valerie Jarrett. He was so upset that he took to his personal website Wednesday to write a short note condemning her. I’m not going to link to his website, but I will share with…
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I’d Feel Bad for Those Fired Because of Roseanne’s Racism if They Didn’t Get Hired Because of Roseanne’s Racism
For the past few days I have been searching throughout my house for a fuck to give about the people who lost their jobs because of Roseanne Barr’s antics. I looked in each of the closets in each of our bedrooms. I looked in the fridge. I looked in the basement. I looked in between…
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Roseanne Train Wreck Raises Issues of Race in TV Coverage
In the fallout over ABC’s cancellation of “Rosanne” over star Rosanne Barr’s racist tweet, much of the commentary congratulatory, some critics raised a challenging question: How can the media cater to red-state voters without mainstreaming the racism that too many of them embrace? “What is America going to do about the normalization of racism?” (video)…
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Sterling K. Brown on Roseanne’s Firing: ‘I’m Happy With the Swift Action That Was Taken’
Sterling K. Brown, Keegan-Michael Key and Brian Tyree Henry shared their thoughts on Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets and the canceling of her show by ABC during a red carpet for Hotel Artemis this week. Hey, ABC, can you give these guys a show instead? Watch above.
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Valerie Jarrett Was Called an Ape and Roseanne Barr Lost Her Job, but the Real Victim Here Is Trump
It took Roseanne Barr a little more than 60 days to destroy the reboot of her ABC show by simply being herself. Roseanne has been, and continues to be, a riled-up, white-supremacist-leaning, conspiracy-theorist-loving, “Make America Great America”-hat-wearing troll on Twitter. We all know the drill by now: Roseanne tweeted some really vile and racist shit…
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Ambien Manufacturer Responds to Roseanne Barr for Blaming Her Racism on Its Drug [Updated]
Updated: Wednesday, May 30, 2018, 10:15 a.m. EDT: Earlier this morning, The Root reached out to drug manufacturer Sanofi, the company behind Ambien, to ask what it thought about the fact that Roseanne Barr blamed her racism on its sleep aid. Ashleigh Koss, head of media relations, had this to say: People of all races,…
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Valerie Jarrett Is Better Than Me—Just Look at the Way She Handled Roseanne’s Racist Tweet
By now you have probably already heard that ABC canceled Roseanne after its star, actress-comedian Roseanne Barr, made a horrifyingly racist tweet at the expense of Valerie Jarrett—a former senior adviser to President Barack Obama. In case you missed it, early Tuesday morning, Barr tweeted that the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes had…
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