America's Sex And Race Failure: Why Raven-Symone And An Ohio Couple Are Struggling

America's Sex And Race Failure: Why Raven-Symone And An Ohio Couple Are Struggling
Raven Symone attends the after party celebrating her first performance in Broadway's "Sister Act" in New York, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)
Raven Symone attends the after party celebrating her first performance in Broadway's "Sister Act" in New York, Tuesday, March 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)

This week, iconic Cosby (grand)kid Raven-Symoné caught up with Oprah, telling her in an interview: “I don’t want to be labeled gay….I’m a human who loves other humans. …I’m American not African American. I don’t know what country I’m from in Africa, but I do know I have roots in Louisiana. I’m an American, and that’s a colorless person.” It would be tempting to frame these recent remarks on race and gay identity from the Cosby Show and Disney star as just more ideal and myopic millennial musings on race. But I think her comments tell us something about the operations of contemporary notions of the “human” that are worth unpacking.

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