Here’s What Roseanne Said To The 8-Year-Old Black Actress On Her Show
Jayden Rey played her granddaughter on the show.
Roseanne Barr just can’t seem to stay off Twitter. After the epic media firestorm over comparing Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to an ape, she is now offering apologies to Jayden Rey, the lone Black actress on the now-cancelled show.
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Rey, who is reportedly 8 years old, portrayed Mary Conner, Roseanne’s granddaughter and the daughter of her son DJ. On the show, DJ married the Black girl he famously didn’t want to kiss when he was in elementary school.
Landing a role in Roseanne was her biggest role, but Rey has been singing, dancing, acting and modeling since she was two years old. Check her out modeling Marc Jacobs — with a photo of Beyoncé rocking the same coat:
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Now, after Roseanne has blamed Wanda Sykes and attacked Whoopi Goldberg, she suddenly decided to offer apologies to Rey. Writing on Twitter, “I think I’ll b better tomorrow. The saddest part of all is 4 Jayden Rey on the show whom I grew2 love so much & am so ashamed of myself that she would ever think I do not love her bc she is African American. It’s the most gawd awful painful thing. I can’t let myself cave in tho.”
Roseanne has now deleted the tweet.
She also claims she pleaded with ABC to not cancel the show, tweeting, “I begged Ben Sherwood at ABC 2 let me apologize & make amends. I begged them not to cancel the show. I told them I was willing to do anything & asked 4 help in making things right. I’d worked doing publicity 4 them 4 free for weeks, traveling, thru bronchitis. I begged 4 ppls jobs.”
Then, in probably one of her strangest tweets yet, she claims she told Sherwood that she thought Jarrett was white and the former Obama adviser could be someone in her family. “He said: what were you thinking when you did this? I said: I thought she was white, she looks like my family! He scoffed & said: ‘what u have done is egregious, and unforgivable.’ I begged 4 my crews jobs. Will I ever recover from this pain? omg.”
She deleted that tweet as well.
Roseanne really seems to believe that if she convinces people she didn’t know Jarrett was Black that would erase all of her racism and bigotry. Again, this is not just one comment. In 2013, she called Obama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice, who she clearly had to know is Black, an ape. And let’s not forget, she also included an Islamaphobic comment in her tweet, saying Jarrett equals, “muslim brotherhood & planets of the apes had a baby.”
After all of this backlash, Color of Change has started a petition for ABC to air the episode of Blackish that was about NFL players kneeling. The petition reads, “Despite warnings about Roseanne’s history of racism and Islamophobia. Now, Roseanne has been canceled after mass outrage, and ABC is patting themselves on the back for taking the show off the air — even though they still won’t let the protest-centered Black-ish episode air.” Click here to sign the petition.
ABC has completely wiped Roseanne from their website. Let’s hope she takes that as a hint to disappear and retire from all social media.
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Veterans Day: 100 Vintage Photos Of Black Soldiers Fighting Foreign Wars For America
Veterans Day: 100 Vintage Photos Of Black Soldiers Fighting Foreign Wars For America
1. Black Pilots Sharing Stories

2. Eleanor Roosevelt Awarding the Soldier's Medal

3. Black Troops Working Howitzer

4. Group Watching Parade Of Black Infantry

5. Soldier Laughing During Drill

6. Our Colored Heroes World War I Poster

7. Troops Seated, Reading Letter

8. Black Troops In Human Chain Recover Body

9. Tuskegee Airmen Waving on Gangway

10. American Soldiers Crossing a River

11. African American Soldiers on Anti-Aircraft Battery

12. African American Soldier Shooting at Enemy

13. Black Woman Being Inducted Into Waves

14. Heroic Black Sailors Posing with Gun

15. Troops Playing Cards on Ship

16. Two Soldiers Washing Clothes

17. African Am Trooper @ Parachute Training

18. Two Black Soldiers Seated W/Rifles

19. Soldiers Seated in Camp

20. Harry Moore in Parade

21. Soldiers Marching with Machine Gun Sign

22. Soldiers Group During WWII

23. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. in Cockpit

24. African American Soldiers Cutting Wood During World War II

25. The Arrival Of 369Th Regiment Nyc

26. African American Troops Marching Up Fifth Avenue

27. World War I African American Soldiers

28. Black Military Engineers Line For Lunch

29. Cigarette Table At Dinner For Infantry

30. Soldiers Seated and Read Letters

31. African American Infantrymen with Dead SS Trooper

32. Soldiers Sharing Letter

33. Bible Class Army Ymca African Am Wwi

34. Black Troops Coming Ashore

35. Officer Receives Service Cross Honor

36. Bill Robinson In Military Uniform

37. Black Soldier Cleaning Rifle

38. World War Ii French Soldiers Give Candy

39. Black Pilots Return To U.S.

40. First All-Black Combat Unit

41. Tuskegee Airmen in Italy

42. African American Wacs

43. Keep Us Flying! Buy War Bonds, WWII Tuskeegee Airman Poster

44. Pvt. Joe Louis Says Poster

45. Benjamin O. Davis Next to P-47 Thunderbolt

46. Segregated Black Marines on Iwo Jima

47. Workers On Lunch Break

48. African-American soldiers in WWI

49. 369Th Colored Infantry On Parade

50. African American Sailor

51. African American Soldiers

52. Us Soldiers Testing Gas Masks

53. African American Soldier

54. African American Wwi Soldiers

55. World War I 10th Cavalry

56. 24th Us Infantry Passing Through Ny

57. African American Soldiers

58. African American Sailor

59. WW1 African American Soldier

60. Parade of Vietnam Veterans

61. African-American Soldiers at London Dance Hall

62. U.S. Troops in England

63. Playing Piano

64. Two Soldiers

65. Rolling Field Equipment

66. Soldiers in Jeep

67. Nazis Captured in the Forest

68. American Officers Pose With Young Girl

69. 1st Army Post Band

70. Negro Officers

71. Coast Guardsmen

72. African American Soldiers in France

73. African-American Naval Recruits

74. 369th Colored Infantry Returns Home

75. Women Honor Their Soldiers

76. Negro Sailors of the USS Mason

77. Pfc. Warren Capers, Medic

78. Negro Seabees

79. Wartime Couple Sharing a Soda

80. 93rd Infantry Division in Training

81. Enlisted Personnel During World War I

82. American Air Force Crew

83. African American Cadets Receive Salute

84. Returning Officers

85. African-American Soldiers Exercising

86. Negro sailor, of the USS Mason. The first US Navy ship to have a predominantly Negro Crew. March 20, 1944

87. African American Solider in Jungle

88. Corporal Holds Good Luck Picture

89. Stewards mates passing time the evening before battle at Manila with a card game in their bunk room. November, 1944.

90. Members of the 99th Fighter Group of the Army Air Forces famous all-Negro outfit, pose for a picture at the Anzio beachh

91. Black Air Force Pilots in World War II

92. African-American Troops, Portrait Near Tents and American Flag, circa 1917

93. African-American Troops, World War I, circa 1917

94. World War I: African-American soldier.

95. African American band members on the U.S.S. Philippine.

96. Soldiers Waiting for Train, Pennsylvania Station, New York City, New York

97. Boxing Match, Part of Physical Training Program, Air Service Command, Daniel Field

98. Driver of Jeep of a Reconnaissance Unit, Fort Riley, Kansas

99. Nurses In The Southwest Pacific

100. Black American Nurses

Veterans Day: 100 Vintage Photos Of Black Soldiers Fighting Foreign Wars For America
UPDATED: 6:00 a.m. ET, Nov. 11, 2020 -- As the country observes Veterans Day, it's important to remember that the history of especially Black people in the American military is a complicated one. On its surface, it's yet another one of the countless ways that Black people have helped build this country and keep it safe. However, beneath that veneer lies some ugly truths that haunt the U.S. military's legacy to this day. And while much of that has to do with Black soldiers' time enlisted in the armed forces, the way that Black veterans have largely been treated has been the subject of much scrutiny since Crispus Attucks became the first American casualty of the Revolutionary War. During the War of 1812, Black soldiers helped defeat the British in New Orleans. By the end of the Civil War, 10 percent of the union forces were Black. The 54th regiment, which was an all-Black fighting unit, was immortalized in the movie “Glory” and fought a number of important battles, eventually losing more than half of its troops. Two of Frederick Douglass’ sons also fought in the Civil War and Harriet Tubman severed as a scout for the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers. During World War I, Black soldiers were given full citizenship, although they still fought in segregated units. Many credit Black soldiers for bringing jazz music to Europe and France. In World War II, Black soldiers had an increased presence. The NAACP pushed for the War Department to form the all-Black 99th Pursuit Squadron of the U.S. Army Air Corps, otherwise known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the only U.S. unit to ever sink a German destroyer. Like the 54th Regiment, the Tuskegee Airmen were immortalized in a movie of the same name. The Marines first opened themselves to Black volunteers in 1942. To the dismay of the Marines, only 63 African Americans joined. Lieutenant Colonel Campbell C. Johnson, a Black officer, decided that he would actively recruit Black Marines. Due to his efforts, African Americans began joining the Marines at a rate of more than 1,000 a month in 1943. Despite the opposition to the Vietnam war from Black leaders and athletes like Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali, many Black soldiers both volunteered and were drafted to fight in the Vietnam war. Colin Powell joined the ROTC at City College and would go on to be a captain in Vietnam, later becoming a major. Powell would go on to be National Security Adviser (1987–1989), Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Army Forces Command (1989), Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989–1993) and eventually the Secretary of State for President George W. Bush in 2001. While that Black history in the American military is undeniable, so is what the Equal Justice Initiative reminded readers was how Black soldiers returning home "were more likely to face discrimination, disrespect, violence, and even death." According to the New Yorker, much of that treatment was blamed on white people who "speculated that, while stationed in Europe, black soldiers had enjoyed wartime liaisons with white French women, increasing their lust—which, in the white imagination, was already dangerously high—for sex with white American women." On top of that, research from the Department of Veterans Affairs found that "African-American and Hispanic Veterans said they had more negative experiences in obtaining access to health care than whites." With that rich history in mind, scroll down to see dozens of vintage images of Black soldiers fighting foreign wars for the United States Of America.
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