Valerie Jarrett’s response to Roseanne Barr’s racist tweets took a bit of a left turn when she opted to buoy the gun control efforts of the Parkland survivors on MSNBC Tuesday night.
ABC canceled Barr’s “Roseanne” reboot Tuesday after she tweeted that if the “muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes had a baby,” it would be Jarrett.
NBC News’ Chris Hayes first asked the former President Barack Obama adviser during a pre-taped town hall on racism if she believed President Trump’s “tone” had “empowered” some of his followers to make such statements publicly.
“Tone does start at the top,” she responded. “We like to look up to our president and feel as though he represents the values of our country, but I think every individual citizen has a responsibility, too.”
Jarrett claimed that, “it’s up to all of us to push back. Our government is only going to be as good as we make it.”
“People on the inside have to push hard and people on the outside have to listen,” she continued before turning the conversation toward gun control, specifically.
“I’m heartened by so much of what I’ve seen over the last several months,” she told Hayes. “All those young people from Parkland who were able to force Florida to change a law that they had no intention of changing before the tragedy shows what happens when ordinary Americans lift up and they have their voices heard.”
