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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frank Underwood" data-source="post: 121750" data-attributes="member: 35"><p>VJ is Valerie Jarrett.  She was an aide to Obama when he was president.  She's black, and a common insult used by racists is that black people look like apes.  So Roseanne was saying that Valerie looked like a member of the Muslim brotherhood and an ape had a baby.  In 2013, Roseanne said Susan Rice (another black Obama official) was a "big man with swinging ape balls."  ABC is being applauded for canceling her show, but many people have rightly pointed out that Roseanne has been saying vulgar things on Twitter for years.  They didn't seem phased by her controversial persona when they revived her show, but the backlash was so swift from her latest tweet that they could no longer overlook her bigoted posts.</p></blockquote><p></p>