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She’s From Every “Continent” In Africa
After Raven-Symone realized the firestorm she caused when she said she wasn’t African-American, she decided to try and stop the bleeding. But her interview with E! only made matters worse because of a slip of the tongue.
“I never said I wasn’t black; I said I wasn’t African American,” she said. “To me that’s a difference. Thank you to Ancestry.com actually for sending me my DNA test … I am from every continent in Africa, except for one, and I am also from every continent in Europe, except for one. And for the last 400 years, my family has been living in Virginia. How long do you have to be in one country before you’re that?”