ABC responds to petition to kick Raven-Symone off ‘The View’

It has not been an easy journey for Raven-Symone since she joined ABC’s The View.

After a petition to kick the former Disney Channel star off of The View reached over 120,000 signatures, ABC is defending their choice to keep her on the talk show.

“We love Raven,” the network said in a statement, according to Us Weekly. “She is confident, genuine and opinionated, all qualities that make her a great addition to the panel.

The petition is on Change.org and opposes Raven-Symone being on the show because of “ignorant and self hating spiel.”

It continues to say that the black community wants someone else to represent them on the show.

“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,” the petition read. “We need strong black role models in prominent positions on televisions and Raven-Symone cannot provide that.”

Raven-Symone recently made headlines for saying she would not hire someone with a “ghetto name” on the ABC show.