Donald Trump says he values Kanye West’s passion for prison reform, but he sure sounded like the real reason for his lunch with Ye is because the rapper is a magnet for male African-American voters. Trump was on “Fox & Friends” Thursday AM and…
Showing posts with label AfricanAmerican. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 11, 2018
Friday, May 4, 2018
Donald Trump Thanks Kanye West for Doubling His African-American Poll Numbers
Donald Trump just shouted out Kanye West during his speech at the NRA Convention … for giving him a boost in the polls with black people. The Prez thanked Kanye in front of the huge audience in Dallas, telling them the rapper must have some power…
Monday, January 22, 2018
CNN, TBS Sued for Discrimination Against African-American Employees
TBS and CNN make their African-American employees work way harder to get a promotion … according to an ex-employee who’s now suing both networks, and their parent company. Wanda Byrd, who is black, says she’s worked for TBS for 13 years,…
Friday, January 8, 2016
Whoopi Goldberg: "I"m an American. I"m Not an African-American."
Whoopi Goldberg has renounced the label of “African American.” Instead, she prefers simply “American.”
The star made the proclamation on The View this week, after co-host Joy Behar predicted many Americans would leave the country if Donald Trump became president.
“You know what, uh-uh! This is my country,” said Goldberg. “My mother, my grandmother, my great-grand folks, we busted ass to be here. I’m sorry. I’m an American. I’m not an African-American, I’m not a chick American, I’m an American!”
Raven-Symone quickly chimed in with, “I’m an American. I’ve been here too long to not just hold American.”
In fact, Goldberg may have gotten the idea from her young co-host. In 2014, Raven-Symone expressed nearly the exact same sentiment as Goldberg’s during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, saying, “I’m tired of being labeled. I’m an American. I’m not an African American; I’m an American.”
Naturally, the Twittersphere had something to say. While some agreed whole-heartedly with the, um, American co-hosts, others accused the two of abandoning their heritage.
Goldberg may need to do a little PR cleanup after her comments, but she can’t be surprised at the backlash.
Raven-Symone had also come under fire from the black community after she made her statements two years ago. She explained that her words were taken the wrong way, and that she wasn’t trying to deny her ethnicity, just a term she didn’t care for.
“I never said I wasn’t black. I said I wasn’t African American and to me, that’s a difference.”
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