People are very upset with actress and televsion host Raven-Symoné. After her comments about not wanting to hire people with ethnic names and her more recent statement about the teen assaulted by an officer at Spring Valley High School, many people are criticizing the former "Cosby Show" actress.
A woman named Che Scott-Heron started a petition on Wednesday, urging Barbara Walters to cut the host from the talk show's panel.
It already has 94,000 signers.
The full petition reads:
"Raven-Symoné has been spouting her ignorant and self-hating spiel on 'The View' for long enough, from stating that she wouldn’t hire somebody for having a ghetto name, to openly complaining about reverse racism. The final straw was her comment about the recent viral video of the school police officer assaulting the student, where Raven Symone said'Get off your phone in school then.'
African-Americans and black people around the diaspora need a voice representative of their views and not a voice representative of what white people want us to say. We need strong black role models in prominent positions on television and Raven-Symoné cannot provide that. That is why I ask that we petition to remove her from 'The View.'"
