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

[MostReal]

I get it, good she clarified it.

 

[Jean Jacket]

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.

white people hate saying "Black" for sure. If anything, I like making them say it. Man up cac.

I think beneath it all, we have to look at each other with grace instead of apathy. The west has fukked up the minds of a lot of cultures towards each other.

I'm still learning to move on from a bad mindset towards Africans and the concept of ethnicity when it comes to Black people across the globe.

I have no desire to be ethnically African. I'm ethnically Black American. That's my culture and by birthright.

 

[Space Cowboy]

white people hate saying "Black" for sure. If anything, I like making them say it. Man up cac.

I think beneath it all, we have to look at each other with grace instead of apathy. The west has fukked up the minds of a lot of cultures towards each other.

I'm still learning to move on from a bad mindset towards Africans and the concept of ethnicity when it comes to Black people across the globe.

I have no desire to be ethnically African. I'm ethnically Black American. That's my culture and by birthright.

I’ve started to call myself African American despite growing up in an “I’m black, not African” environment and it’s positively emancipating.

 

[RadaMillz]

technically Elon Musk is an African American

His not, he will never be. Stop it!

Her life. Her perspective.

This, it's a non issue
I doubt anyone is going up to her and saying 'wassup my african-american'

 

[Kool]

This sh*t ain't nothing new. A lot of Black folks... even back then were saying they don't like the African American label and that they prefer American or Black American.

 

[DaPresident]

Whatever Dr. Umar say we are, I'm with him

 

[Jean Jacket]

I’ve started to call myself African American despite growing up in an “I’m black, not African” environment and it’s positively emancipating.

Have you spent time in Africa, the continent?

 

[DrBanneker]

Ok. If that's what she meant she could have clarified by saying she is Black American. I am American too but also know the "just American" is often a prelude to trashing the idea our Black identity should be meaningful to us in an individual sense.

 

[BobbyWojak]

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.

Growing up I always thought African American meant Black people who were originally here and didn't choose to immigrate or come as refugees. It wasn't until the last 2 years I've been seeing this sentiment from tweets posted here.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

I been stopped referring to myself as an African American late last year after my grandmother told me that our family bloodline always been here in America. So now I'm calling myself Indigenous American.

 

[TEH]

Raven is the original FBA

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

After listening…



she prefers black American and doesn’t rock with AA as a label.

 

[BobbyWojak]

technically Elon Musk is an African American

Musk is a first generation South African - American, his great grandfather is English.

 

[Topps]

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.

You was obviously teased by lightskin people growing up. You have a lot of posts with major hang ups about lightskin people. It's very telling in your posts.

 

[GoAggieGo.]

No problem with it then, no problem with it now.