Raven-Symone OWN Interview

The "Cosby Show" star set the record straight on how she'd like to be categorized during an interview with Oprah Winfrey for the TV special "Where Are They Now?"

The openly gay actress started by discussing her sexuality...and then subsequently refusing to be called gay.

Oprah brought up a tweet from August 2013 that Raven clearly wrote in response to the legalization of same sex marriage in California. 

"I can finally get married! Yay government! So proud of you," the tweet read. 

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However, when Oprah asked the child star about the meaning behind the post, Raven alleged that it wasn't personal and more so about her love for the nation because, as she later explained, she will not be labeled as a gay woman.

"Was that your way of coming out?" Oprah asked. 

"That was my way of saying I'm proud of the country," Raven responded. "I don't want to be labeled gay. I want to be labeled a human who loves humans."

OK. As pleasant as "humans who love humans" sounds, what's wrong with just owning your sexuality? If you are a gay woman and you are allegedly proud of that, it should not be wrong or offensive for someone to identify you as such. 

Then to add insult to injury, the former Disney star went on to diassociate with her race.

"I'm an American, I'm not an African American," Raven told the former talk show host. "I have darker skin, I have a nice, interesting grain of hair. I connect with Caucasian, I connect with Asian, I connect with black, I connect with Indian. I connect with each culture."

Um, what? As Oprah visibly cringes, so should everyone else watching. While Raven believes she is eloquently presenting herself as a worldly woman, what she is actually doing is completely ignoring the one culture that she is inherently a part of. 

Raven says that she is not "African American" because she cannot trace her roots back to Africa? Well sorry to break it to you but the politically correct term for being black in the United States just happens to be "African American." However, if you don't like it, you can use the term "black." But that isn't what the actress does either. 

While she describes herself as a black woman, "I have darker skin" and an "interesting grain of hair," she quickly refuses to be identified as such by mentioning the entire black race as a separate entity from herself. 

Being black becomes something that she simply connects with as opposed to a category that she can be placed in. According to Raven, she's just as much black as she is Asian, which is absolutely absurd.You cannot pick and choose the physical and psychological traits that you inherently possess.

Sure, labels can be restricting if they're negative or extremely narrow but if they serve to generally describe you as a person, just own them. If you're a black woman, just own it. If you're a gay woman, own that too. 

I thought the whole message behind her show "That's So Raven" was to love yourself in spite of your differences? Well it seems like this teen psychic has ultimately lost sight of herself. 

Watch the interview clip below: 

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