ABC Laughs at the Petition To Get Raven Symone Fired From The View. This is Exactly What The Producers Wanted!

The public has spoken and they want Raven Symone fired ASAP. A petition on Change.org was set up to have her fired from the show. In just three days the petition received 120,000 signatures and counting.

Even Ravens own father, who spoke up in her defense said that his daughter is liable to say some silly things but that doesn’t make her the horrible person everyone is making her out to be. Here is what the petition actually looks like.

Raven Symone 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 rolemodels in prominent positions on television an Raven Symone cannot provide that. That is why I ask that we petition to remove her from The View.

The last straw for many fans of The View was Raven’s comments regarding Officer Ben Fields and the viral video of him removing a female student from the classroom.  Many thought that Raven’s comments were insensitive and out of touch with the realities of what is going on today with law enforcement and their abuse of power.  Here is the clip that finally sparked the petition.

Granted, out of the 120,000 signatures I would bet only a small percentage are loyal watchers of The View. People are most likely signing the petition based on clips of the show, some taken out of context that go viral on social media.  I personally have to admit some of the things that Raven says leave me like,

However, as I said before, this is exactly the reason that ABC brought Raven Symone on the show. She is controversial and this gets  #TheView trending on social media. All of this is free. The petition itself has brought so much attention to the show. It’s a huge story and now the defense of Raven by ABC is another huge story. ABC has Raven’s back 100%. They released the following statement,

We love Raven.  She is confident, genuine and opinionated, all qualities that make her a great addition to the panel.

Basically they are saying don’t waste your time and energy and a petition will not get her fired.

Now by no means does that mean that Raven’s job is secure. Similar to celebrity divorces we don’t know what is really going on behind the curtains at The View. They have shocked us several times in the past, most recently by firing Nicole Wallace, their most knowledgeable political mind, just weeks before the first republican primary debate.  Before she got let go, it was all love between her and the producers. Then BAM!

Raven represents not only the youthful, social media driven segment of our culture but also black people and the LGBT community as well. That’s hard to do, not to mention she has fans from Disney and her music career.  These fans have aged with her and are now proudly watching her come into her own on The View. At the end of the day, this is a business and if ratings are going up and advertising dollars are coming in then Raven Symone ain’t going nowhere. Black Activists will just have to be pissed.  They will have two choices..deal with it or stop watching.