Raven-Symone Says She'd Discriminate Against "Ghetto" Names, Gets Slammed on Twitter
- 9 years ago
Um, say what? Raven-Symone caused a minor uproar on Twitter after she claimed that she’d readily discriminate against any job applicant with a “ghetto” name on an episode of The View on Thursday, Oct. 8.
During a conversation addressing a new study released in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior, the outspoken talk show co-host admitted that she would definitely not consider any names that sounded too ethnic if she were an employer looking to hire.
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“Just to bring it back, can we take back ‘racist’ and say ‘discriminatory,’ because I think that’s a better word,” she said during the show. “And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones that they were saying in the video. I’m not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. It’s just not going to happen. I’m not going to hire you.”
The former child star, 29, looked defiant when her co-hosts pointed out that a child’s name is probably determined before he or she is able to have a say.
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“Is that mean?” she asked at one point, unsure why her statement caused such a hubbub at the table.
During a conversation addressing a new study released in the Journal of Evolution and Human Behavior, the outspoken talk show co-host admitted that she would definitely not consider any names that sounded too ethnic if she were an employer looking to hire.
PHOTOS: Child stars then and now
“Just to bring it back, can we take back ‘racist’ and say ‘discriminatory,’ because I think that’s a better word,” she said during the show. “And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones that they were saying in the video. I’m not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. It’s just not going to happen. I’m not going to hire you.”
The former child star, 29, looked defiant when her co-hosts pointed out that a child’s name is probably determined before he or she is able to have a say.
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“Is that mean?” she asked at one point, unsure why her statement caused such a hubbub at the table.