African American

Are known for edgy, push-the-envelope humor. While I was uncomfortable with Bee's chosen expletive, her anger and her comment had a point. She was juxtaposing one privileged mother's tone-deaf social media offering against the ugly reality faced by immigrant mothers and children thanks to the polished blonde mamma's father.

What, exactly, was Barr's point in the first place? Is she angry about something specific that Ms. Jarrett has done? Or was she just spitting out some casual hate against a woman of color who has some education and geniune intellectual "polish" and who was in a position of power?

"Black people look like apes and all Muslims are bloodthirsty terrorists." That was the message that Rosanne Barr was communicating.

"The airbrushed, upper middle class image of mother and child bonding is a hypocritical play on emotions coming from the scion of a man who is ripping apart poor mothers and children even as the photoshoot was being conducted." That was the message Samantha Bee communicated.

THAT is the explanation for what was actually broadcast out to the world.

The explanation for the world's reaction to these two communications has to be filtered through belief systems and how well people are able to separate their gut emotions from their rational evaluations.