Raven Symoné Doubles Down on The Oprah Winfrey Interview About Being Labeled African American

[IsThatBrothaMouzone?]

This feels like a lite skint issue.

Didn't Smokey Robinson and Yvette Carnell say similar shyt?

Black, African American, American, ADOS, FBA.....I don't care...they all describe me. I'm dark and almost 90% west/central African.

Only difference between me, a random Nigerian, Pele and David Ortiz is that the Nigerian's folks didn't get captured in battle and sold (or their ancestor was a chief and sold my people).....Pele's people were owned by white Portuguese and Ortiz people were owned by white Spanish people.

My people were owned by Scottish and Irish immigrant slavers.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

she's not wrong


to my FBA/ADOS sistren






now I'm gonna sit here patiently and wait for people to cartwheel in here with the ad hominems instead of addressing what she said









Pan Africanist bozos: "nO BlAcK pEopLe ThInK lIkE tHaT iN ReAl LiFe."








basic common sense gets some of you nikkas so aggy

 

[Jean Jacket]

This feels like a lite skint issue.

Didn't Smokey Robinson and Yvette Carnell say similar shyt?

Black, African American, American, ADOS, FBA.....I don't care...they all describe me. I'm dark and almost 90% west/central African.

Only difference between me, a random Nigerian, Pele and David Ortiz is that the Nigerian's folks didn't get captured in battle and sold (or their ancestor was a chief and sold my people).....Pele's people were owned by white Portuguese and Ortiz people were owned by white Spanish people.

My people were owned by Scottish and Irish immigrant slavers.

Your culture as an American is not the same as a Nigerian.

To say that all Black people are ethnically the same is a mistake.

 

[Roland Coltrane]

Same goes for Afro-Latinidad

this changes absolutely nothing and what he said still stands




I ain't never in my life ran into somebody from Jamaica, Trinidad, or any of those other islands reder to themselves with the "Afro-" prefix

 

[In The Zone '98]

Her life. Her perspective.

 

[Jean Jacket]

In B4 the first canons of the Diaspora Wars...

 

[RamsayBolton]

NOBODY calls Caribbeans "African Caribbeans"

No ones calling UK Brehs African-British

 

[Space Cowboy]

I used to hate the term African American. I had zero ties to Africa, didn’t know a thing about my history and just felt more aligned with labeling myself Black American. These days I claim African American to tie myself with the diaspora in solidarity but I understand the mindset.

 

[Jean Jacket]

I used to hate the term African American. I had zero ties to Africa, didn’t know a thing about my history and just felt more aligned with labeling myself Black American. These days I claim African American to tie myself with the diaspora in solidarity but I understand the mindset.

Where was your maternal great great grandmother born?

 

[RickyDiBiase]

FBA/ADOS are conceptually lineages that should not bother you weirdos.

Shut the fukk up loser

 

[Pure Water]

Raven was right. Why do we call ourselves AA? All of the family we known and loved were born here, plus by the Civil War, the avg slave was at least 3 generations removed from Africa.

African American is literally just the name for ADOS. When the name was created the amount of foreign black people were minuscule. It’s literally just a name for our ethnicity.

 

[Voice of Reason]

Shut the fukk up loser

Obsessed weirdo

 

[Buddy]

she's not wrong


to my FBA/ADOS sistren






now I'm gonna sit here patiently and wait for people to cartwheel in here with the ad hominems instead of addressing what she said









Pan Africanist bozos: "nO BlAcK pEopLe ThInK lIkE tHaT iN ReAl LiFe."








basic common sense gets some of you nikkas so aggy

I coulda swore it was normal ass Black folks that gave her hell for that but of course, PAN AFRICANISTS were the cause muhfukkas are way too light on they're responsiblility for gangs and the crack epidemic

 

[RickyDiBiase]

African American is literally just the name for ADOS. When the name was created the amount of foreign black people were minuscule. It’s literally just a name for our ethnicity.

They're that dumb breh.

 

[Space Cowboy]

Where was your maternal great great grandmother born?

Here in America.

I’m descendent of slaves which is precisely my family identified as black and not African.

In my experience growing up black people called ourselves Black Americans and it was white people that used African American as a politically correct way to say black because their white guilt made them act like black was a dirty word.