Raven-Symoné: 'I'm not about to hire you if your name is 'Watermelondrea''

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Raven-Symoné just added another one-liner to her greatest hits collection.

And by “hits,” we really mean one-liners that leave you hitting your head against the table.

On Thursday, the View co-hosts were discussing a recent study out of the University of California Los Angeles which found that people tend to associate “black names” with violence and aggression at a higher rate than “white names.”

Then, for some reason, they watched a popular YouTube video of the “Top 60 Ghetto Black Names.”

Then Symoné dropped this gem:

“I’m very discriminatory against the words like the ones that they were saying in those names,” she said, referencing the video. “I’m not about to hire you if your name is Watermelondrea. That’s just not gon’ happen. I’m not gonna hire you.”

Because kids choose their names when they’re born, right?

Black Twitter wasn’t pleased:

https://twitter.com/BigEDuncan/status/652500831669985280

We need oxygen, we’ll be back soon.