Posted on 10/10/2015 2:07:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
The View has become the center of controversy once again, this time after Raven-Symoné admitted that she would not hire someone with a 'black' name.
'I'm not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea,' the former child star said to her shocked co-hosts during Thursday's episode of the ABC show.
'It's just not going to happen,' she continued. 'I'm not going to hire you.'
Raven's comment came while the women discussed a recent UCLA study published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, which found that Americans make racist assumptions based on people's names.
Whoopi Goldberg introduced the topic and then played a popular YouTube video, titled '60 most ghetto names', for the audience.
The countdown video featured names like 'Grapedrankisha' and 'Fri'Chickenisha'.
'Just to bring it back, can we take back "racist" and say "discriminatory", because I think that's a better word,' Raven asked after the clip ended.
Whoopi nodded, saying 'It's a much better word,' but her agreement was short-lived as Raven continued to speak.
'And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones they were saying in those names,' she said, referencing the video before admitting she would never hire a 'Watermelondrea'.
Whoopi's hands flew to her chest following the comment and she gave the audience a horrified look, but Raven pointed at her reaction and laughed.....
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...and then THEY get annoyed you guessed wrong as to their gender.
If someone came into my office burdened by their parents with a ridiculous name I wouldn't blame them - I would evaluate them.
LaShavonda is meeting Keylon at the movies at 6 o’clock. It’s 5:30, and Keylon is 7 miles away.
Question: Who is Keylon’s biological father?
Lashavonda’s father, cause Keylon’s mother was HOT.
Sy’philis has always been a favorite of mine.
Does anyone know Whoopie’s first name? surely her mother didn’t really name her Whoopi way back then.
“Whoopi Goldberg’s real name is not Whoopi Goldberg, it’s Caryn Elaine Johnson.”
Thanks! I guess Caryn Elaine Johnson was much too white for her!
Raven is a black lesbian. That's like GOLD to the Cultural Marxists and their moron followers.
But, she speaks the truth and you know what Orwell said about speaking the truth.
I have known two people (one from the Detroit area) that have said that if a resume came across their desk with a name like Lakeesha, it went in the shredder.
And she chose Goldberg?
Maybe that is her married name? Is she married?
Nah! I bet she just thought it sounded funny.
Well, she was right the two names together certainly sound funny!
Enough hypocritical outrage. Whites are judged on the basis of their ethnicity every day, so STFU, Whoopie!
Frank Zappa’s kids, Moon Unit, Dweezil, Ahmet, and Diva Muffin
Years ago I sold cell phones during the time when complex, multi-part contracts had to be filled out by hand. It didn’t take me long to figure out that rather than asking for a person’s first name, I just asked them to spell it. It was nearly a guarantee that if the person was under 30 their name was either down-right ridiculous (Watermelonesha) or it had extra letters or bizarre spellings. I’ve come to the conclusion that most parents in the USA are more concerned with being ‘cool’ than giving their kids the blessing of having a reasonable name.
“Rwanda, Tanganyika, etc.”
You mean, like First Daughter, Malia?
Common Core Socialogy!
The name Malia is a Hawaiian baby name meaning ‘she knows’.
in the words of Shirley Q. Liquor “who is al these chillrens”
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