Overcoming Stupidness
This week Roseanne Barr (an bad taste.” But…then again.
actress/comedian) posted a Why is Roseanne demonized
tweet that read, "muslim If you had to re-read now? She is the same person
brotherhood & planet of the Roseanne’s first tweet asking she was before the tweet.
apes had a baby=vj." First yourself, “What’s wrong with Some might say she showed
• Pray always thing you need to know is it?” You just need to know her true colors, but she has
that Twitter is a website that drawing any comparison made millions of dollars by
• Pastor David and where people can post short to a primate and an African being rude and distasteful.
Colleen statements. The limit is descendant is an insult and So why be offended now?
something around 250 char- has been for generations. We When she deliberately sang
acters. The Twitter members just don’t go there. Roseanne the National Anthem poorly,
• Community Soup
have “followers” these fol- should know that. then groped herself and spit
lowers are notified by Twitter on the ground before walking
• Our outreach and when anyone they follow Despite high ratings on her TV off the field, everyone was
witness to our com- posts something. So when show, ABC announced, aghast, but has now for-
munity Roseanne made that post her "Roseanne's Twitter state- gotten. Last week when Sa-
followers see it and can com- ment is abhorrent, repugnant mantha Bee said the vilest
• Busy Hands ment back. Of course when and inconsistent with our thing imaginable on TV direct-
the tweet gets to “vj” she is values, and we have decided ly to Ivanka Trump, she made
going to be pretty insulted. to cancel her show." (Yes this her “apology” while receiving
• People struggling
is the same ABC whose an award for her raunchy TV
with illness “vj” is Valerie Jarret. Valerie “values” are just fine with The program that did not edit out
Jarrett was a Senior Advisor View, General Hospital, The the grossest insult that can be
• Young families and to President Obama. She is a Bachelorette, Modern Family hurled at any woman. So
single parent fami- Chicago lawyer, business- and American Housewife.) where do the “standards” for
lies woman, and civic leader. Roseanne quickly apologized the court of public opinion
Why Roseanne has such to Valerie Jarrett, and to come from?
strong feelings about her I do America. But the damage was
• Those struggling
not know and do not care to done. The answer is society. But
with addiction know. Roseanne should fol- which branch of society? One
low the old adage, if you can’t Roseanne´s judgment jumped might say the majority. But
• Schools: students, say something nice then don’t through court of public opin- isn’t the majority silent? The
staff, administrators say anything at all. But it’s a ion right to the sentencing. majority of people don’t have
little late for that. People Roseanne blamed her poor the time, the interest or the
• Missionaries who read the tweet were judgment partially on platform to have their voice
quick to point to its racial “Ambien tweeting” at 2 a.m. heard. So the answer be-
overtone, which resulted in She also issued a formal comes the media.
• Homeless, helpless,
Roseanne being called a racist statement of apology, in
hopeless, hungry and ABC cancelling her top which she expressed regret, What do you do to keep your
rated TV show (which I have acknowledged the damage mind from being polluted by
• Local, state, nation- not seen and care nothing she caused to her co-workers, a minority who make some-
al and world leaders about). Then Roseanne apol- and asked for forgiveness. thing good or bad just by the
ogized by saying, “I apologize But it was too late, with a way they say it?
to Valerie Jarrett and to all tweet, Roseanne Barr has
Americans. I am truly sorry been charged, convicted, and I recall many years ago hear-
for making a bad joke about sentenced by her own words ing someone say that they
her politics and her looks. I in the court of public opinion. had been engaged in a con-
should have known better. Her career is over. Maybe it versation with other people
Forgive me-my joke was in should be. about how I would never
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