Raven-Symone: 'I'm not African-American'; Oprah Winfrey hardest hit

[NeverEndingMe]

you are an American or you are not. if you are not American- get the fuck out


http://www.examiner.com/article/raven-symone-i-m-not-african-american-oprah-winfrey-hardest-hit

 

[Stewart_Pidd]

you are an American or you are not. if you are not American- get the fuck out

Canadians and Mexicans are Americans bro!

Stew

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I like what she said.

In effect, I do not want to be grouped, I do not want to be identified as gay, I do not want to be identified as an African-American, I am an American who loves people.

That is very refreshing.

That's so Raven.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Canadians and Mexicans are Americans bro!

Stew

They call themselves Mexicans and Canadians.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I like what she said.

In effect, I do not want to be grouped, I do not want to be identified as gay, I do not want to be identified as an African-American, I am an American who loves people.

That is very refreshing.

That's so Raven.

Well, I'm glad you came out of the closet. have you told anyone else that you are gay?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Well, I'm glad you came out of the closet. have you told anyone else that you are gay?

I will right after you tell everyone that you are stupid.

 

[NeverEndingMe]

I will right after you tell everyone that you are stupid.

we all know that I'm: awesome.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

If by "we" you mean your various alts, then that is a true statement.


Show us some boobs, not a boob.

 

[Aquagal]

I agree with her. Whenever I've traveled to other countries I am an American, why would I announce where my lineage comes from? That's no different on my own soil.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

She said, I don't know what country in Africa I came out of, my roots are in Louisiana...

 

[Aquagal]

I saw the interview clip, which is saying a lot. Because I CANNOT STAND the self important Oprah Windbag.

 

[4glory6]

you are an American or you are not. if you are not American- get the fuck out


http://www.examiner.com/article/raven-symone-i-m-not-african-american-oprah-winfrey-hardest-hit

Did you bother to read the article you cited? She said she didn't want to be called a hyphenated American. She wanted to be called an American. Which sort of makes your post idiotic.

 

[Mello_SixtyNine]

I like what she said.

In effect, I do not want to be grouped, I do not want to be identified as gay, I do not want to be identified as an African-American, I am an American who loves people.

That is very refreshing.

That's so Raven.

It's very Libertarian.

 

[unregistered]

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I saw the interview clip, which is saying a lot. Because I CANNOT STAND the self important Oprah Windbag.

Well, to her credit, she uncovered racism in Switzerland...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

It's very Libertarian.

She's a breath of fresh air in my view, a real American.

She is melting pot.

I am melting pot.



A house divided...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

PS : Jenn



Punctuation goes inside of the quote marks...

 

[Aquagal]

Well, to her credit, she uncovered racism in Switzerland...

Are you talking about that whole Hermès debacle, or was that in Paris?

 

[FullyLoadedUK]

They call themselves Mexicans and Canadians.

Canadians also refer to themselves as North Americans. They add the north part because one country stole a whole continent for itself.

 

[FullyLoadedUK]

I agree with her. Whenever I've traveled to other countries I am an American, why would I announce where my lineage comes from? That's no different on my own soil.

I loved what she said. She is right too, until you stop using labels you'll be defined by them.

It's the first step to stopping racism.

 

[JustaSCOUNDREL]

She is a bit late to the party, but very welcome never the less. Good for her.


Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

" When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

 

[The_Trouvere]

you are an American or you are not. if you are not American- get the fuck out

You are ugly and half crazy.

 

[eyer]

She is a bit late to the party, but very welcome never the less. Good for her.


Former President Theodore Roosevelt in speaking to the largely Irish Catholic Knights of Columbus at Carnegie Hall on Columbus Day 1915, asserted that,
There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism.

" When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all … The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic … There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."

Could the reason he left out "African-Americans"...

...attest to the fact that Teddy was a white supremacist?

Meaning...

...he believed the white race was superior to all others.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Are you talking about that whole Hermès debacle, or was that in Paris?

It was the purse shopping...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Canadians also refer to themselves as North Americans. They add the north part because one country stole a whole continent for itself.

The only country that fits that description is Australia.