Raven-Symone Apology, After award herself in hot baptize over comments abounding activate to be racially insensitive, The View co-host Raven-Symone took to Facebook to abode the altercation surrounding her remarks.
"My comments about bigotry accept spun out of control," Raven wrote in a Facebook bulletin on Sunday. "I'd like to activate by adage that I was not advancing a specific race, but repeating a name that was said in a viral video which has accustomed over two actor likes."
The 29-year-old extra is apropos to a articulation on The View in which the console discussed a abstraction that said Americans discriminate adjoin humans based on their names.
The co-hosts watched and commented on a viral video of the a lot of "ghetto"-sounding names, afterwards which Raven said, "I am absolute abominable adjoin words like the ones that they were adage in the video. I’m not about to appoint you if your name is Watermelondrea. It’s just not traveling to happen. I’m not traveling to appoint you."
Commenters on Twitter were quick to jump on Raven's comments, which abounding alleged racist and ignorant.
Even Raven's father, Christopher B. Pearman wrote an accessible letter on Facebook about his daughter's ability for authoritative arguable quips. "Children abound up and become afflicted by abounding things, situations and people," he wrote. "I absolutely don't accede with what she said....but she is abuse abreast 30 years old. She's a developed a** woman authoritative developed a** mistakes. We all accept been accusable of this."
"Raven is a absolutely Beautiful, Sweethearted, Human Being. I should know. Her Mother and I Love her Absolute abundant and will consistently abutment her and accept her back," Pearman continued. "Even if sometimes..........she says some impaired *#%T!"
In her own bulletin arresting herself and her comments, Raven fatigued that she understands why humans were agitated at her remarks, but that some acceptable can appear from the altercation it initiated.
"I accept been denied abounding jobs because of my derma color, physique admeasurement and age. Each time I was rejected, my cocky admire was abnormally effected, so I empathize with those who feel victimized by what I said," Raven shared. "We would achievement that if it comes to hiring, our names, concrete appearance, animal acclimatization and age would never outweigh our qualifications, but generally times, they do. That's the accuracy and it sucks. But I should not be allotment of the problem, I should be allotment of the solution."
She apologized for the remarks, and aswell swore that the comments were fabricated in banter and did not reflect her absolute opinions on hiring practices.
"As an according befalling employer, I accept never discriminated adjoin a name....even admitting I said I would, it's not true. My animadversion was in poor taste. My abridgement of affinity appear name bigotry was uncalled for."
In March, Raven activate herself at the centermost of addition altercation if she dedicated above Univision host Rodner Figueroa, who said that First Lady Michelle Obama "looks like she's from the casting of Planet of the Apes."
"Michelle, don't blaze me for this appropriate now, but some humans do attending like animals," Raven said during an adventure of The View. "Is that rude? I attending like a bird. So can I be mad at somebody that calls me Toucan Sam?"
Here's Raven aperture up to Oprah Winfrey about the pressures of getting a adolescent celebrity in Hollywood, and how she tries to accumulate her name out of the tabloids.
"My comments about bigotry accept spun out of control," Raven wrote in a Facebook bulletin on Sunday. "I'd like to activate by adage that I was not advancing a specific race, but repeating a name that was said in a viral video which has accustomed over two actor likes."The 29-year-old extra is apropos to a articulation on The View in which the console discussed a abstraction that said Americans discriminate adjoin humans based on their names.
The co-hosts watched and commented on a viral video of the a lot of "ghetto"-sounding names, afterwards which Raven said, "I am absolute abominable adjoin words like the ones that they were adage in the video. I’m not about to appoint you if your name is Watermelondrea. It’s just not traveling to happen. I’m not traveling to appoint you."
Commenters on Twitter were quick to jump on Raven's comments, which abounding alleged racist and ignorant.
Even Raven's father, Christopher B. Pearman wrote an accessible letter on Facebook about his daughter's ability for authoritative arguable quips. "Children abound up and become afflicted by abounding things, situations and people," he wrote. "I absolutely don't accede with what she said....but she is abuse abreast 30 years old. She's a developed a** woman authoritative developed a** mistakes. We all accept been accusable of this."
"Raven is a absolutely Beautiful, Sweethearted, Human Being. I should know. Her Mother and I Love her Absolute abundant and will consistently abutment her and accept her back," Pearman continued. "Even if sometimes..........she says some impaired *#%T!"
In her own bulletin arresting herself and her comments, Raven fatigued that she understands why humans were agitated at her remarks, but that some acceptable can appear from the altercation it initiated.
"I accept been denied abounding jobs because of my derma color, physique admeasurement and age. Each time I was rejected, my cocky admire was abnormally effected, so I empathize with those who feel victimized by what I said," Raven shared. "We would achievement that if it comes to hiring, our names, concrete appearance, animal acclimatization and age would never outweigh our qualifications, but generally times, they do. That's the accuracy and it sucks. But I should not be allotment of the problem, I should be allotment of the solution."
She apologized for the remarks, and aswell swore that the comments were fabricated in banter and did not reflect her absolute opinions on hiring practices.
"As an according befalling employer, I accept never discriminated adjoin a name....even admitting I said I would, it's not true. My animadversion was in poor taste. My abridgement of affinity appear name bigotry was uncalled for."
In March, Raven activate herself at the centermost of addition altercation if she dedicated above Univision host Rodner Figueroa, who said that First Lady Michelle Obama "looks like she's from the casting of Planet of the Apes."
"Michelle, don't blaze me for this appropriate now, but some humans do attending like animals," Raven said during an adventure of The View. "Is that rude? I attending like a bird. So can I be mad at somebody that calls me Toucan Sam?"
Here's Raven aperture up to Oprah Winfrey about the pressures of getting a adolescent celebrity in Hollywood, and how she tries to accumulate her name out of the tabloids.
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