Raven-Symoné reflects on telling Oprah Winfrey: 'I'm not an African American'
Raven-Symoné is reflecting on her controversial comments in a 2014 interview with Oprah Winfrey, in which the "Cheetah Girls" star said she's "an American, I'm not an African American."
Raven-Symoné is clearing up controversial comments she made back in 2014.
In a new episode of “Tea Time With Raven & Miranda,” Raven-Symoné addressed her interview with Oprah Winfrey when she said that she’s “an American, I’m not an African American.”
The “Cheetah Girls” star said that she was misunderstood and people didn’t hear what she said clearly.
“I wanna talk about something that has haunted me since 2014,” she began. “When that aired, I felt like the entire internet exploded and threw my name in the garbage. There was so much backlash from my community and others that misunderstood, slash didn’t hear the exact words that I said.”
“And the exact words that I said is that ‘I’m an American, not an African American,’” she continued. “A lot of people on the internet thought I said that I wasn’t Black, and I never said that. There’s a difference between being Black and African.”
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