Raven-Symoné has long had a penchant for saying what’s on her mind – and while speaking on a recent podcast episode, she continued along said trajectory.
Sitting alongside her wife Miranda Maday, the media maven was quizzed on a myriad of topics at random – one of which was hair.
When the discussion was broached, Raven seized the moment to unpack her stance on a particular corner of hair talk: race.
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Immediately launching into her perspective, the 38-year-old said:
“I think that no matter what color you are, you should be able to wear braids or whatever styles in anybody else’s hair. Just keeping it 100. I don’t think it’s fair that we are blocking people from choosing designs that they want on their hair.”
When quizzed about how the politics around hair is used to further racist ideology in the workplace, she aged and deemed that “unacceptable.”
Later, though, she stressed:
“I’m going to back and forth with you (on the overall topic) because Vikings, Chinese, Mongolian…they were doing cornrows. I agree with you, though, that companies should not prevent a certain hairstyle .”
Watch the clip, which also saw Miranda muse on the matter:
Raven Symoné on hair discrimination: “No matter what color you are, you should be able to wear braids. pic.twitter.com/r8xqnJeEtW
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When black women make their white men dress and get haircuts like their brothers and exes it’s called the black wife effect. So let her enjoy her braids
This is like some dogs p e e or s h I t everywhere just to mark their territories.
Ms Harris’s speech included calls for unity and a pathway beyond the “bitterness, cynicism and divisive battles” of modern American politics.
She said that the US had a “precious, fleeting” opportunity to “chart a new path forward”. But that chart had few details.
Vague calls for unity and a path beyond partisanship are rhetoric many presidential hopefuls have used in the past.
When Ms Harris did turn to policy details, she spoke in generalities.
She said she will be focused on lowering the costs of “everyday needs” – including healthcare, housing and groceries. She specifically called out abortion rights – and framed it as a means of preserving freedom, which has been a recurring theme at this Democratic convention.
“America cannot truly be prosperous unless Americans are fully able to make their own decisions about their own lives, especially about matters of heart and home,” she said.
Her character on Blackish was married to a Black woman and got divorced.
A woman who has shown her self-hate with saying she is from every “continent” in Africa and wouldn’t hire someone with a Black sounding name…saying this isn’t surprising.
Different types of braids exist. She knows what kinds work with Black hair. Vikings didn’t go to Jamaica to get the “Bo Derek” braids.
If other women do it, it’s edgy. Black women?? Ghetto and ratchet. THAT is the issue.
We see young Black children forced to cut their braids or locs or afros or be dress coded.
There is a specific style Black women are punished for in workplace that is also seen in school and work rules.
I saw a mariner job that said no hair that is “big”, no tightly coiled hair, must be flat. Even on the dang sea, Black people can’t do their hair as they please!
The same ones bashing Black women for weaves and “appropriating” are being willfully ignorant.
If a Black woman goes into a job with microbraids or an afro, will she not be seen as unprofessional?
We know there is discrimination based on Black hair.
Raven is a more subtle Candace Owens
I don’t want a Cheetah Girls reboot. Her personal life and odd battles she picks are too distracting. She is never promoting anything. Just controversial anti-Blackness.
Rest in peace to her brother.
Nobody is going to see a black woman as unprofessional solely bc of their hair. You have been programmed to think that though. You must be really insecure. Its crazy that you went on this whole rant without realizing that people who think like you are the reason why this issue you are so pissed off about is happening. There must be something in the tap water bc yalls brains are not functioning correctly
We ❤️ Kamala
Raven is always saying some stupid s***.
🤣 the irony of a self-identified Whoopi Goldberg stan calling another woman stupid
I know that’s right! Black people need to stop being racist to other races 💅🏼
Don’t understand what you said. Why do you think it’s black people that doesn’t like other races. You need to be educated.
Far as I know it’s not illegal to be a cultural appropriator. BUT, that don’t mean you’re exempt from being called out on it and being ridiculed for such behavior.
Its actually crazy how you don’t see how its racist to believe in cultural appropriation of something like hair. Everybody has to stick to their racial hairstyles huh? Youre weird asf
stfu before you get tossed back over that wall 😄
Raven needs to build a bridge and get over it. Black people have the right to be possessive of our culture, because whites are always trying to erase it.
Facts!
Some things are not for everyone. Yes, I agree that anyone can wear braids, but when you start going into extensions, wigs, and mocking hairstyles meant for a different culture, stay with your own, because you are married to a black woman, what she does with her hair, you cannot. That’s like Caucasians wearing across, c’mon now.