"Privilege? All Roseanne had to do to keep her job is not compare a black woman to an ape."

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18. For me, calling someone an ape and acting like it is an insult just shows even more

how ignorant these people who do that are. WE ARE ALL APES! We have a common ancestor with the apes of today. Furthermore, the oldest human origins found show that we ALL came from Africa. At some point in evolution homo sapiens were born with less melanin and that's how we got white people. And there is no privilege in that. It was just a fluke!

How much different the world could be if more people understood this. I am not even sure how the white people of today think we came about. Do they actually believe some god set them down in the garden of Eden and they were white? No wonder they have such issues with folks who look somewhat different.

I think education would go a long way to get over these issues. Even in Tanzania where albinos can be killed or harmed because of superstitious beliefs. Educating people about the scientific facts could go a long way to stop all of this petty and ridiculous stuff and then MAYBE once most of humankind gets how we are all connected and that we are all on the same planet we can spend more time and effort toward keeping it a good place for all the living things.

That is my $.02. This is also why i get so angry and impatient with the likes of Roseanne and trumpsters. They are just ignorant and and reveling in it and they seem to have a large following.