Raven-Symoné Clears Up Viral 'African American' Comments From Oprah Interview
Raven-Symoné Clears Up Viral 'African American' Comments From Oprah Interview
Raven-Symoné looks back at her viral comments from 2014, including ‘I’m not African American,’ on her ‘Tea Time’ podcast. The actress reflects on her ‘Oprah: Where Are They Now?’ interview, after clips resurfaced following an episode of ‘Real Time With Bill Maher.’
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OPRAH IS A TYPICAL VICTIM, AS FAR A RAVEN, I APPRECIATE HER TRUTHFULNESS~
She’s telling the freaking truth ‼️‼️
Raven is right. I'm not indigenous, I'm a native American. Color is no matter.
Raven was right !!!
Don't feel attack, Oprah likes to push racism… can't do nothing with those type of people…
There will always be ‘racism’ in America because they specifically choose to distinguish themselves as ‘*** American’. I.e. ‘Irish American’, ‘African American’, ‘Italian American’, ‘Mexican American’.
Oprah's an idiot! How can anybody misconstrue what Raven said?! If people choose to remain ignorant then so be it. Raven doesn't need to explain herself to these fools! Oprah was not born in Africa! By her logic she should call herself Mississippian-American! 🤣🤣🤣
GIRL WE ALREADY KNOW WHY YOU ARE A LIGHT SKIN WOMAN YOU ALL HAVE A PRIVILEGED COMPLEX OVER DARK SKIN PEOPLE AND ARE VERY AWARE YOUR SKIN TONE IS MORE DESIRED IN THE INDUSTRY… DONT GASLIGHT US.
Oprah the fooking woke
oh i would’ve pretended that controversy never happened 😭
We are African Americans whether we were born kn African or have our lineage traces back to Africa..so LOVE it. Until we are all treated equally we are not one. Idk who you have intercourse with and marry thays not gonna change a thing.
Be happy as an African American.
We don’t care this was so many years ago. The celebrities always want to stay relevant after no one cares from years ago like pipe down
To me, African-American is specific to post-reconstruction/20th century African immigrants. I've always distinguished myself as a black American because I've been fortunate enough to trace my ancestry pretty far back and know that it's pretty mixed- like many black Americans are and like Raven is. I never thought anything of her comment, personally, but like she said- we love to compartmentalize and label as humans. We should try to be intentional and clear with said labels, IMO.
Oprah sets up all her interviewees. Look what she did with Harry and Meghan, encouraged them to hate on their families. She plays people.
At the end of the day we have been lied to about our history so she is not really wrong
I love raven yes we all r American.. I stand with u who reads more into that as negative is on that individual. thank u raven thank u ..
How are the black Africans called???
Raven we agree with you, we're Americans!!!
All humans come from the same distant ancestor. Race is a moot point.
Oprah attacking Raven was like “attack of the giant booties” 😂
Well Oprah's reaction to her statement didn’t help 🤨🙄
The last thing the Black American community needs is a black person who wants to be black ONLY when it benefits them. Unfortunately you asked for that backlash.
Am sure the hate came from the black community…how dare she make sense or be reasonable by stating a different opinion by allegedly denouncing her race aka "sellout"😂😂😂😂😂😂
I’m just disappointed that she didn’t understand being an American is a nationality even when you break down the word nationality you get the first word nation the nation is America. Your parents come from African descent 😂😂😂😂😂 ethic group then nationality please stop being duds
I have no sympathy for Raven-Symoné. Instead of getting mad at people for criticizing her she should do some introspection about why she has a problem with being labeled African.
As long as labels keep getting shoved in faces nobody is going to acknowledge, admit and understand there is only one race, the human race. And that race might just be run.
We are separated by whatever is between your legs and blood type. Physical features don't count, you are a human being and nothing more.
Defining OURSELVES any other way plays right into the rich people's plan, keep us fighting amongst ourselves while they rape you, me and OUR COUNTRY FOR ANOTHER DOLLAR . . .
FROM OUR POCKETS!!!!!!!!
I never called myself a White American or a European American or a Hungarian American so why do people call themselves a African American all these years? I always wondered that. Too many labels in this world.
She's right She's American
👏I completely 100% understand what she meant. Life is so much more than race and it gets annoying to keep hearing it.
Oprah played her. Is this a bad time to say I can never watch The Color Purple the same way again?
Nobody cares about Raven anymore.
People got children to feed places
To go.😂
There is no difference between African and black and we call you black Americans is kind enough from all of us. We do not call you blacks, (African Americans.) Yawn!
Girl, shut the hell up. You said what you said. Oprah is not to be blamed. Oprah clearly responded to the pending backlash
I grew up abroad. Someone like her would have been referred to as mixed where I grew up. Never as one race.
Plus race was almost never even talked about! The obsession with race is a particularly American thing!
Whoopi Goldberg said the same thing in her book, "Book", from 1997 (in the chapter, "Race").
As a black woman, I think some black ppl are tired of dealing with America’s racial construct. We are Americans! If folks want to talk about race, then yes, we are Black Americans but we are Americans.
Does anybody care about Oprah any more?
She thinks she's white 😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😆😁
We heard it and didn't like it. Bye