Friday, November 6, 2015

That's So Raven....so please just let her be!




The controversy just doesn't stop for Raven Symone. Now the former Cosby kid, and current The View co-host finds herself in hot water yet again. This time it stems from a petition to have her fired from her plush gig at The View.

Symone is just a few weeks removed from making comments regarding the Spring Valley High School incident in South Carolina, which saw a school resource officer manhandle an African American female student after she wouldn't put her cell phone away.

Here are Raven's Comments on the matter via U.S. Weekly

"The girl was told multiple times to get off the phone," Symone said. "There's no right or reason for him to be doing this type of harm — that's ridiculous — but at the same time, you gotta follow the rules in school. First of all, why are there cellphones in school? This shouldn't even be a problem to begin with, and he shouldn't have been acting like that on top of it."

Now people are up in arms. Seriously up in arms. Social media did not react well and the call to oust the former Disney star keeps growing louder.  Now I've been following Raven since the whole Watermelondrea scandal and I predicted a couple of blogs ago, that this was coming.

ABC, the network that airs The View has come out with a statement in support of the co-host, and I agree.

These are Symone's opinions, regardless if we like them or not. We should not want to end someone's livelihood just because they have an opinion that differs from our own. If it's hate speech, which in this case it is clearly not, then by all means let her go. But if you don't like her opinion... why not change the channel. Simply don't click on the link, or don't view the stream. Just my thoughts!