On yesterday’s edition of The View, Raven-Symoné and Whoopi Goldberg discussed Donald Trump’s latest gaffe at a rally in California on Friday.
In the clip, comedienne Whoopi Goldberg is flabbergasted that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee pointed out the lone African-American in his crowd of supporters.
His “Look at my African-American over here!” line made Goldberg cringe in disgust as she spoke about it. The comment began a discussion about Trump’s long history of racial and discriminatory incidents.
“You really want to watch it when you say there’s my African-American,” the comedienne says. “Clearly you missed the remake of ‘Roots.’ ”
Goldberg goes on to say that just because a person is ‘part this or that’ it does not mean they are not American.
That’s when Raven-Symoné chimed in. She immediately brought up her now infamous interview with Oprah Winfrey where she stated that she is just American.
“I’ve tried that,” she says. “Black Twitter is still hating on me [for my comments].”
The actress and singer took a quick swipe at Black Twitter for their relentless attacks against her and began defending Trump.
She says that Trump is just a product of his time.
“I honestly don’t think he knows what he is saying.”
Comedienne Joy Behar dispels the idea that Trump is innocent. She mentions a comment he made years ago about not liking Black men counting his money and that he prefers Jews to do it.
Raven is bubbly and articulate when the discussion centers around music artists and pop culture in general. The problem is that she seems shallow intellectually. She doesn't have a good grasp of politics; at least not in the way that Rosie Perez, or Nicole Wallace did. What does she really bring to The View?
I honestly thought Raven-Symone had been fired because I haven't heard her say anything stupid from stories about the View. Should have known better.
We got to stop giving white people the ignorance pass. ESPECIALLY when they are running for president.
White people know it's not appropriate and I pray black people will as well. I dislike the use of the word by anyone. White people created it though and they cant get mad that black people turned it into something for themselves. I really can't wrap my head around how it bothers people so much though, maybe its the double standard factor. Oh well, you guys can use the word without a clapback and we can get our 40 acres and a mule.
White people know it's not appropriate and I pray black people will as well. I dislike the use of the word by anyone. White people created it though and they cant get mad that black people turned it into something for themselves. I really can't wrap my head around how it bothers people so much though, maybe its the double standard factor. Oh well, you guys can use the word without a clapback and we can get our 40 acres and a mule.
Why can black folks say "Hey muh niggah" as a greating and other races can't?The older generation doesn't get a yearly memo on what is or is not appropriate so try to be aware of that and perhaps stop using words and phrases you dont like when said by a different race as they will pick up on it and use them to try to fit in.
She is the airhhead on stage that respresens the carefree American view. If it doesn't affect her personally she draws inference on her life experience. Its a deflecting mechanism much like Donald Trump uses whe he makes crazy racial remarks, Clearly unrehersed.
Jonathan Adkins, I got a call one day from my best friend, she was frustrated because her sister who never uses racist remarks let her son bring a friend home from school, after his friend left he came waltzing into the kitchen, looked up at his mother and said "What's up my nigger?". He got in trouble for that as you can imagine but you know where he got that from? The friend he brought home from school who just happened to be black. Now how do you explain to a little boy in understandable terms how wrong a phrase like that is when the other kid does it freely at home along with his family and his other black friends who don't get in trouble for it? My point is that not every white person knows better and its not any easier for the older generation who grew up in a time where these words were used openly without consequense. The anger over this word is on both sides, whites for the most part stopped using it yet blacks use it openly which only makes it more frustrating when you're trying to squash it altogether. I hope you understand where I'm coming from on this and how a remark as the one Trump used can misconstrued in epic ways. (Trump should've just referred to him as "my homie".) 😛
Why do you?
Reread what I said. Idiot.
She tries so hard to come across as this young hip intellectual woman who marches to her own beat. Problem is, that is a "role" she is playing and unlike the TV shows she acted in, she does not have "writers" to provide her with the right lines. So the crap she spouts only shows her world education is severly lacking.
Not every black person uses this word to say "hello" or "goodbye" to other black people. This has been every single non-black persons rebuttal to this issue for decades. Please stop using this generalization of a small sample size as if it applies to every black person on earth-it does not. Maybe meet some black people and have regular discussions with them instead of whatever place you currently get your black news and statistics from and you can be educated before you try this next time.