Notes:

"When Roseanne Barr was called out and subsequently fired for the racist tweet she made about Valerie Jarrett on Tuesday, two things happened at the same time.

First, white people feigned ignorance as to why saying a black woman was the love child of the Muslim Brotherhood and Planet of the Apes was racist. They found all types of ways to excuse Roseanne’s comments […]

The second thing that happened was at once strange, bewildering and amusing. Roseanne stans and the “Make America great again” crowd found a tweet of mine from seven months ago in which I referred to current Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson as a “monkey of the porch variety.” […] I--a black woman--am not a racist for calling Ben Carson--a black man--a p-----------. […] The statement is not racist because that is not how racism works. […] We are both black. To that extent, I cannot be racist against him."