Raven-Symone is the latest panelist on "The View" to try to take back her words, saying her comment last week that she would not hire someone with an ethnic-sounding name was in "poor taste."
The former child star and new panelist on ABC's daytime chat show was part of a discussion last Thursday about a study on people who make racial assumptions based on names. She said she discriminated against people when it came to names. Symone said "I'm not about to hire you if your name is Watermeloandrea." which she later explaining that she heard that name online in a viral video and wasn't targeting a specific race.
The panelist, in a Facebook post this weekend, said she's been rejected for jobs because of her skin color, size and age. She said she hoped names, physical appearance or sexual orientation would never outweigh job qualifications, but they often do.