RECENTLY ON THE VIEW, RAVEN SIMONE MADE SOME QUESTIONABLE
SOUNDING STATEMENTS ABOUT BLACK SOUNDING NAMES, AND WHETHER
OR NOT SHE WOULD HIRE SOMEONE WITH A BLACK SOUNDING NAME.
A NEW STUDY IN THE JOURNAL EVOLUTION AND HUMAN BEHAVIOR
SAYS THAT HUMANS MAKE RACIST ASSUMPTIONS BASED ON PEOPLE'S
NAMES.
THIS MADE US THINK ABOUT
THE VIRAL VIDEO OF THE SIXTY MOST GHETTO NAMES.
HERE
ARE THE TOP 10.
CAN WE TAKE BACK RACIST AND SAY
DISCRIMINATORY?
I THINK THAT IS
A BETTER WORD, AND I AM VERY DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST WORDS
LIKE THEY WERE SAYING.
I AM NOT GOING TO HIRE YOU IF YOUR NAME
IS WATERMELANDRIA.
THAT'S NOT THEIR FAULT.
PEOPLE WERE NOT TOO PLEASED WITH WHAT SHE HAD TO SAY THERE.
I FIND HER STATEMENT IS SO INTERESTING, BECAUSE IF SHE WERE
NOT FAMOUS AND SHE WAS OUT THERE LOOKING FOR A JOB, SHE MIGHT NOT
BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BECAUSE OF HER NAME, BUT SHE WOULD
CERTAINLY BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST FOR HER SKIN COLOR, THE
WAY HER HAIR WAS ñ ñ SHE GETS AWAY WITH A LOT BECAUSE SHE IS
FAMOUS.
THINK ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FAMOUS BUT ARE JUST LIKE
YOU, AND WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO GET A JOB.
IF YOU DID NOT WORK IN MEDIA AND YOU WALKED INTO AN INTERVIEW
LOOKING THE WAY YOU DO, THEY WOULD DISCRIMINATE AGAINST YOU,
AND THEY WOULD BE WRONG.
LOOK, I GET IT, SOME OF THE NAMES
SOUND RIDICULOUS.
IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T GET THAT THEY SOUND
RIDICULOUS, BUT REMEMBER, PEOPLE DID NOT PICK THEIR NAMES.
YOU CAN GET MAD AT THEIR PARENTS.
FOR EXAMPLE, SOME PEOPLE SAY MY
SON'S NAME IS RIDICULOUS.
PROMETHEUS MAXIMUS UYGUR.
DON'T
GET MAD AT HIM, HE DIDN'T PICK THE NAME.
IF YOU WANT TO MAKE
SURE I DON'T GET A JOB, FAIR
ENOUGH.
ALSO, KEEP IN MIND THAT PEOPLE AREN'T OVERTLY RACIST IN
THE COUNTRY.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE RACISTS DON'T REALIZE
THEY ARE RACIST.
THERE ARE SUBCONSCIOUS THINGS THAT ARE
HAPPENING THAT MAKE THEM DISCRIMINATE AGAINST CERTAIN
PEOPLE FOR STUPID THINGS.
IF SOMEBODY IS TELLING YOU WHAT THE
EVIDENCE AND THE DATA IS, AND THEY ARE SAYING PEOPLE ARE
SUBCONSCIOUSLY DISCRIMINATORY AGAINST PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THOSE
NAMES, AND YOU KNOW IT AND YOU ARE STILL WILLING TO
DISCRIMINATE AGAINST PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR NAMES, THEN YOU
ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON.
RAVEN SIMONE HAS SAID LOTS OF QUESTIONABLE THINGS
IN THE PAST ABOUT THE BLACK COMMUNITY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING THROUGH HER MIND.
I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WANTS TO BE THE HEEL OF THE SHOW, OR GET
ATTENTION, BUT THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT.
SOMETIMES THERE IS A, I DON'T WANT TO BE WITH THEM
MINDSET.
THE PART THAT BOTHERS ME
THE MOST, PRETENDING THAT
PEOPLE DISCRIMINATE BECAUSE AFRICAN-AMERICANS HAVE CRAZY
NAMES.
NO, THERE HAS BEEN STUDY
AFTER STUDY, WE COVERED A STUDY FOR MANY YEARS AGO, IT'S NOT
LIKE IT'S A NEW THING.
THEY GIVE PEOPLE BLACK SOUNDING
NAMES, TYRONE, AS OPPOSED TO AUSTIN, AND THE WHITE SOUNDING
NAMES HAVE A FIFTY PERCENT CHANCE, FIFTY PERCENT HIGHER
CHANCE OF GETTING A CALLBACK FOR
AN INTERVIEW.
THAT IS A COLOSSAL NUMBER.
THEY HAVE A
SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER CHANCE OF GETTING A JOB.
THIS IS A REAL
ISSUE FOR BLACK PEOPLE IN THE
COUNTRY, AND WHEN YOU TURN IT INTO A JOKE, IT'S FINE, BUT YOU
HAVE TO MAKE IT SERIOUS AND SAY IT'S A REAL ISSUE.
THEY DID NOT
DO THAT.
THEY JUST TREATED IT LIKE, OH BLACK PEOPLE, IF YOU
IF YOU NAME YOUR KID LAQUISHA, OF COURSE SHE IS
NOT GETTING A JOB.
RAVEN'S FATHER SPOKE OUT ABOUT THIS, AND HE DID NOT TAKE
HER SIDE.
HE SAYS, "RAVEN IS A REALLY BEAUTIFUL, SWEET HEARTED
HUMAN BEING.
I SHOULD KNOW.
HER MOTHER AND I LOVE HER VERY
MUCH AND WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT HER AND HAVE HER BACK, EVEN IF
SOMETIMES SHE SAYS SOME DUMB SH*T." "THERE HAS BEEN MUCH TALK
TODAY ABOUT MY DAUGHTER'S COMMENTS ON HER SHOW, THE VIEW.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HITTING ME UP ALL NIGHT, QUESTIONING ME ABOUT
HER REMARKS.
THIS WOMAN IS GROWN, HAS HER OWN MANAGEMENT
TEAM, HAS HER OWN OPINIONS, RIGHT OR WRONG, AND IS
RESPONSIBLE FOR HER OWN WORDS
AND ACTIONS."
RAVEN SIMONE ISSUED A NON-APOLOGY.
SHE SAYS,
"I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY SAYING THAT I WAS NOT ATTACKING A
SPECIFIC RACE, BUT REPEATING A NAME THAT WAS SAID IN A VIRAL
VIDEO WHICH HAS RECEIVED OVER 2
MILLION HITS.
I HAVE BEEN DENIED MANY JOBS BECAUSE OF MY
SKIN COLOR, BODY SIZE AND AGE.
EACH TIME I WAS REJECTED, MY
SELF-ESTEEM WAS NEGATIVELY AFFECTED, SO I EMPATHIZE WITH
THOSE WHO FEEL VICTIMIZED BY WHAT I SAID.
AS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, I HAVE NEVER
DISSEMINATED AGAINST A NAME, EVEN THOUGH I SAID I WOULD,
IT'S NOT TRUE.
MY COMMENT WAS IN POOR TASTE, MY LACK OF EMPATHY TOWARDS
NAME DISCRIMINATION WAS UNCALLED FOR."
I THINK SHE'S VERY RICH, SHE MIGHT HAVE HER OWN COMPANY,
I DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT IT, BUT, YOU KNOW, IT'S FINE.
SO SHE BACKPEDALS OUT OF IT, I DON'T KNOW HOW GENUINE IT
IS, BUT IT IS GOOD ENOUGH.
AT LEAST SHE REALIZES SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID IT, AND THERE IS A
LITTLE BIT OF EDUCATION.
THE PC POLICE WILL FLIP OUT, IT'S A
TERRIBLE THING, RIGHT?
BUT FOR MOST PEOPLE THEY THINK, YEAH,
THAT DOES SUCK, I GUESS SHE SHOULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT
BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE CANNOT GET JOBS BECAUSE OF IT.
THAT IS MUCH MORE IMPORTANT THAN MAKING FUN OF A FUNNY NAME.
I WANT TO REITERATE, IT'S OKAY TO MAKE FUN OF A PERSON'S
NAME.
I MAKE FUN OF OWN MY NAME, CENK MAKES ONE OF
HIS NAME, IT IS WHAT IT IS.
IT IS ONE THING TO MAKE FUN OF A
NAME, AND IT IS ANOTHER THING TO
ADVOCATE DISCRIMINATING SOMEONE BECAUSE OF THEIR NAME.