@@MH-en9qc Not too smart thing to say. Have you forgot to use logic? You can't just claim a completely different culture, where you grew up defines you. I assume you are an american this is why you don't know this well known thing.
My respect for you has risen 1000%! How can others respect you if you don't respect yourself? Raven has stated so simply what is wrong with this country today. Thank you for being a role model.
It's an accurate descriptor, not a situationally meaningless tag that people use for special snowflake points when by definition it doesn't even apply to them. That's what she meant, and you know it. But I guess it's easier for you to attack surface level semantics and not what she actually meant, because you would have no argument.
Tell it Raven. You're doing good!!! Hallelujah!! It's not for you to say ,Oprah!!! She gonna get alotta flack or that's what America is supposed to be? Which way is it? She's speaking for herself just fine! Money doesn't buy perspective!!
I'm glad someone finally came out and said it the way it should have been said all along!! Go Raven! Heck, even our own president can't get it right. That was the same way I was raised too. Americans are Americans, not all these hyphenated names they have been calling themselves for years. One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all! Oorahhh
Oprah... nothing new...you're disgusting. Raven... you got a new fan. Respect to anyone that doesn't hyphenate their status as an "American," because if you have to do that, you're not.
People say they want equality, yet are obsessed with labels. Don't you see what a striking contradiction that is? The only way to achieve true equality is to drop all the labels and allow yourself to be judged on character alone. That probably terrifies some people, but Raven's attitude is the correct one.
Amen, Raven. I know that I have Cherokee blood, Caucasian blood, and Scottish blood flowing through my veins. My roots may also include Jewish ancestors as it does Protestant and Roman Catholic ancestors. But I am an American UN-hyphenated. True bigotry and racism lays within the hearts of those who define themselves and others with hyphens, and thereby, help to weaken the American culture of freedom and the individual's pursuit of happiness. Way to go Raven! Don't let others define you FOR you which is what liberals do in order to create division for the sake of empowering themselves on the backs of those whom they consider to be beneath them.
Ive worked with many Americans and this the major thing that gets me about you guys....you label yourselves Irish/american....German/American...Italian/American..African/American....no....you are American....the sooner all the ppl in the USA get over this obsession and move on the sooner you will get along together.
Notice how uncomfortable Oprah is on how many times she adjusted herself on that chair? Race baiting does not get you anywhere Oprah....learn from this!
You have shown such courage, I am so thankful for you being who you are. Respect, I will stand with you, I am a mixture of 5 ethnicities, that I know of, probably more, but I am an American.
Oprah needs to take several seats-literally. I was born in Germany, but don’t call myself German American. Most these people, including Oprah were born in America, not Africa. Stop trying to divide everyone up, good for Raven, we are American.
No where else in the western hemisphere do people who would be classified in the USA as "black" refer to themselves as African-whatever...not African-Jamaican or African-Cuban, or African-Dominican, or African-Canadian, or African-Mexican, etc. The only "African-Americans are people like Obama - whose mother (purportedly) was American and father (purportedly) was African. My response to that label is exactly as hers. It has nothing to do with shame or pride. Just fact! If I had any evidence at all of any ancestry from Africa, I'd proudly proclaim it. But I have no evidence of lineage from anywhere but on this land mass called N. America. I am neither ashamed or proud of that. It is what it is, plain & simple.
Thank you Raven. I wasn't born in America, but I am a proud American citizen, just American. If people really want to hold divided loyalties, then why don't they label themselves with American first, i.e. American African, like American Indians! Surely that would be far more acceptable to all?
I am in love with Raven. And I have less love for Oprah than before (which wasn't much). How do you end racism? "Stop talking about it," said Morgan Freeman. Problem is, for Oprah, Jackson, Sharpton et al., they HAVE to. It's their paycheck.
What's up with Ophra? She sounds robotic while Raven sounds real Fun fact: Maybe the African is African-Malasian, and the Malasian is Malasian-whatever, so the link back never ends
"I know that I am mostly of "HAWAIIAN" ancestry..I identify myself as native Hawaiian. American by default..they stole our land (islands) too! But I do understand America's protection of our islands is paramount..without it we're dead in the water..aloha to all!
Afro-American is the correct term: an American of African origin. African-American is somebody who is both African by birth and American through immigration.
1828 Webster's Dictionary American - n. A native of America; originally applied to the ABORIGINALS, or COPPER-COLORED RACES, found here by the Europeans; but NOW applied to the descendants of Europeans born in America. Blacks, Hispanics(of Taino Indian descendant), and Native/Seminole Indians are the true Americans/indigenous people of the land known today as America. The white man changed the definition/connotation to fit himself but the Lord will expose him very soon #QamYasharahla
The name America was coined by Martin Waldseemüller from Americus Vespucius, the Latinized version of the name of Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), the Italian explorer who mapped South America's east coast and the Caribbean Sea in the early 16th century.
Nope, you are misunderstanding, until you can be an American first, you are lost in hate and division. In all honesty is anything good coming from this labeling?
If you're going to break it down like that, her skin tone is brown. She has ancestry from Africa and Europe and possibly other places. All we know is she's human and she's American. These old bitter black women need to move over.
