Video Clip: Raven Symone isn't African American

Nikolai.

1:18-the end

This is what I wonder when the PC police want everyone to call blacks "African-American" when most of them don't even know where their roots are like Raven said. Also here in Miami there are more blacks from the Caribbean countries, so it's not right to assume someone is African just cause of their skin.

RainDreamer

In a perfect world i would love to live like this and without labels but unfortunately there's other people in the world. And its kinda funny maybe am just one of those people who over thinks but isn't by saying she's an "American" she's already labelling herself or even by saying she's a "human" ? Kinda funny to think about

SneakerNerd

She said she doesn't wanted to be labeled as an African American. There's a difference.

freebitch26

i agree with her, that's the point of America.

primo.

Makes me wonder if she would have reacted the same way if someone said that they considered her Caucasian.

Kings.

Looking Trinidadian, Japanese and Indian

Just kidding but I kinda get what she's saying.

VyktorJonas

gather their ignorance queen

VyktorJonas

ugh, I hate it when they say "partner" for when gay people are dating

Harly

"I don't label myself "

"I'm an American "

Drowned_World

No offence but she seems pretty dumb.

satellites.™

"I connect with"

has nothing to do with your lineage. I connect with Unicorns, but I'm still a human being at the end of the day.

Bye, she doesn't know her roots, but she is quick to label herself an "American" just as long as "African" isn't in front of it because MAYBE her roots aren't in Africa.

Grumpy Gills

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Originally posted by satellites.™

"I connect with"

has nothing to do with your lineage. I connect with Unicorns, but I'm still a human being at the end of the day.

Bye, she doesn't know her roots, but she is quick to label herself an "American" just as long as "African" isn't in front of it because MAYBE her roots aren't in Africa.

all eyes on me

this is getting so messy on twitter

Kim Kardashian

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Originally posted by VyktorJonas

ugh, I hate it when they say "partner" for when gay people are dating

same

I hate it when people say it in general tbh, it sounds so unromantic

Bey'Knight

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Originally posted by Kim Kardashian

same

I hate it when people say it in general tbh, it sounds so unromantic

That's because it's a formal term, like "spouse". It's used for straight couples too

RihannasVeryOwn

All black people are originally from Africa so I don't get her point.
And it makes me so uncomfortable when people say 'blacks' instead of 'black PEOPLE', it's so dehumanising

frankru2010

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Originally posted by KingSebert

1:18-the end

This is what I wonder when the PC police want everyone to call blacks "African-American" when most of them don't even know where their roots are like Raven said. Also here in Miami there are more blacks from the Caribbean countries, so it's not right to assume someone is African just cause of their skin.

Is she really that unaware of her origins. The black people in the Caribbean Islands are of African descent. They are the slaves from Africa that got sold for Rum on the Caribbean Islands before they reached America. The educational system in our country has failed us.

KillLaKill

The whole I dont like labels to then label herself as American.

QueenBLadyG

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Originally posted by RihannasVeryOwn

All black people are originally from Africa so I don't get her point.
And it makes me so uncomfortable when people say 'blacks' instead of 'black PEOPLE', it's so dehumanising

ALL people are from Africa.

Eaten By Lions

I think she should feel free to label herself or refer to herself as whatever she pleases without being policed and harangued by people who don't even know her.