According to US Magazine, the actress stated during a segment of the daytime talk show, which addressed the issue of discrimination against someone due to their name, how she herself is very discriminatory in that manner. When you have a nontraditional name, people struggle to pronounce it. I went from defending the pronunciation of my name to hating it altogether. “It’s just not gonna happen, I’m not gonna hire you”. They’re going to need to meet you halfway.

Well, as it turns out, there’s a real Watermelondrea, and she’s an internet personality and rapper with an album out. But the anger from viewers at Symone’s statement is more over how quick she appears to dismiss anyone’s job prospects because of it and not just the irony and the racist stereotype.

Come Monday, expect a Sorry-I’m-Not-Sorry-I-Was-Misunderstood “apology” from Raven Symone, because that’s how The View handles these types of scandals.

Unfortunately, Raven-Symone isn’t the only black person who feels this way.

It would appear that under Raven-Symone’s rules of identity, no one should be confined or labeled even if that “confinement” is of their own making.

I have a friend in her 20s who recently named her daughter a more common, “white” sounding name. We choose not to associate ourselves with those who look like us yet have names that state their ” blackness” well before they are seen.

After receiving opposing responses from her fellow co-hosts, Raven asked, “Is that mean?”

“It is ironic because Raven-Symoné is quite possibly the single, blackest name in pop culture today”, wrote Damon Young at The Root.

On twitter many criticised Symoné for her views.

Specifically, she said such biases manifest when considering the qualifications of potential employees.