'I'm not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea': Raven-Symoné shocks on The View

The Daily Mail ^ | October 9, 2015 | Anneta Konstantinides

[Cincinatus' Wife]

The View has become the center of controversy once again, this time after Raven-Symoné admitted that she would not hire someone with a 'black' name.

'I'm not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea,' the former child star said to her shocked co-hosts during Thursday's episode of the ABC show.

'It's just not going to happen,' she continued. 'I'm not going to hire you.'

Raven's comment came while the women discussed a recent UCLA study published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, which found that Americans make racist assumptions based on people's names.

Whoopi Goldberg introduced the topic and then played a popular YouTube video, titled '60 most ghetto names', for the audience.

The countdown video featured names like 'Grapedrankisha' and 'Fri'Chickenisha'.

'Just to bring it back, can we take back "racist" and say "discriminatory", because I think that's a better word,' Raven asked after the clip ended.

Whoopi nodded, saying 'It's a much better word,' but her agreement was short-lived as Raven continued to speak.

'And I am very discriminatory against words like the ones they were saying in those names,' she said, referencing the video before admitting she would never hire a 'Watermelondrea'.

Whoopi's hands flew to her chest following the comment and she gave the audience a horrified look, but Raven pointed at her reaction and laughed.....

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Liberal celebrities name their kids “Apple,” etc.