actress raven simone's race comments lighting up the internet. from t"the cosy show" and more recently the disney channel. she set off a debate over this comment on race. >> i'm tired of being labelled. i'm an american. i'm not an african american. i'm an american. >> oh, girl, twitter is on fire. >> what! i'm sorry. >> what did you just say? stop, stop, stop the tape right now! >> i will say this. >> what? >> i mean, i don't know where my roots go to. i don't know how far back they go. i don't know how far back andru don't know what country in africa i'm from. but i do know my roots are in louisiana, i'm american, and that's a colorless people. we're all american. i have lots of things running through my veins. >> you're going to get a lot of flack for saying you're not african americans. >> i don't label myself. >> i want you to say what you really mean by that. >> what i really mean by that, i'm an american. i have darker !k%91ñ a nice interesting grade of hair. i connect with caucasian, i connect with asian, i connect with black, i connect w

i'm an american. >> how about that, raven simon does not want to be label but did she go too far, someay yes. >>> how this former child star is lighting up twitter right now, she's so raven. >> and it is only october but football season is over. at a new jersey high school. down ride disturbing allegation that is school officials tackling a bitter problem this morning. >> yes. >> plus, first it was a bend gate and now apple is under fire again, how your new iphone six and iphone six plus, could be hurting your hairline. >>> and later from the office, this is a must have, the fabulous work out gear keeping you fashionable on the go when you don't have a in minute to change out of those sweaty clothes. >> so just stink on the way to work and then at work. >> that is the solution. >> apparently some kind of fashion you can wear at the gym and then go right to the office. >> that is where all of those people they don't want to work out and have to go back and change your clothes. >> yes, we are doing weather now at 8:01. >> obviously none of us, worked out. >> no. seven out of ten. we have

now to raven simone hitting back against her critics. heat from this comment she made to oprah about labels and race. >> i'm tired of being labeled. i'm an american. not an african-american. i'm an american. >> oh, girl. you're going to set twitter on fire. >> what? oh, lord. what did you just say? stop, stop, stop the tape right now. >> i will say this. i mean -- i don't know where my roots go to. i don't know how far back they go. i can't go on, i don't know how far back and i don't know what country in africa i'm from. i know my roots are in louisiana. i'm an american. that's a colorless person. we are all people. i have lots of things running through my veins. >> you're going to get a lot of flak for saying you're not african-american, you know that, right? >> i don't label myself. >> she was called rich and entitled on twitter. and criticized for, quote, dising her roots. today she says, i never said i wasn't black. i want to make that very clear. i said i am not an african-american. i never expected my personal beliefs and comments

. >> is raven simone having an identity crisis? the crisis not getting better. now teachers could be forced to pay for their own health care. >> they're trying to help us and make sure we get an education. >> what this sacrifice could mean for students. >>> and caught on camera, the video that's taking one local top cop off. grab your smart phone, your tablet or laptop. this is fox 29 weekend. >>> from our home right here at 4th and market on old city on a rainy morning, welcome to fox 29 weekend. thank you for joining us on this saturday. maybe some of your plans will be changing because of the weather. >> karen hepp, lauren johnson, we've got so much news to get to this morning. >> there's something that happened in this very studio yesterday, we will explain and tell you how you can get involved in this one. first we want to get you caught up on the weather. take a live look outside our studios. it is a soggy start. someone on twitter said i love the rain. the i do too, my hair hates it. >> i've got the kinks to show it it doesn't take much when you're out in

it is not a raven's simone saying african-american but that is a hot button issue and explain the context. >> figure for coming. as any part of healthy relationship in terms of if you think about great sex as respect for yourself and your partner so why would we want to teach that to your daughter's? so if we don't teach our daughters about respecting themselves they will never have a healthy relationship at this time my daughter is only eight years old but if i imagine having a conversation with her know. i can say that because the imam is not in the room at the moment but i do think about every day i am raising a future woman. so i do think the day that she should never be ashamed of what she wants to do try with her partner or never feels pressured to do things with her partner and then she would want to explore. and should not feel ashamed or embarrassed that is part of being a healthy adults woman to have a healthy partnership of quality and if you think about enjoying sex, it should be a mind and body and soul. period. >> host: that is a great icebreaker. [laughter] >> there is a co

a child actor of the late '80s, raven simone, the girl we came to love on "the cosby show" said thisbe labeled gay. i'm not american. not african-american, an american. >> and gray lady. this tweet, i can finally get married. yea government, so proud of you. now you're questioning her whole post racial identity in tweets like this. being black in america is a supremely balance of self-awareness. many sided with the star saying, i personally agree with raven. we are allowed to love regardless of gender. >>> alfonso ribeiro doing his carlton dance on "dancing with the stars." ♪ it's not unusual ♪ it's not unusual to be sad with anyone ♪ >> see, that little treat for you children of the '90s and everyone else who loves "the fresh prince of bel air," including my kids. >>> coming up, is the fair housing act next on the supreme court's hit list? we'll talk to the plaintiff in the case that could rip the heart out of the fair housing protections. before earning enough cash back from bank of america to help entertain some friends at the beach. before earning 1% cash back everywhere, every t

larry bird, russell crowe, raven simone.ne of these people have been born yet, but trust me." she's not wrong. she was not wrong. next, in honor of columbus day we have christopher columbus who said, "riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier." let's check out the first draft. "riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier, and when i told the natives that they actually believed me and that's how i got all their stuff." you're a bad guy. you're a bad guy, christopher columbus. real bad guy. next we have marilyn monroe who said, "if you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything." her first draft is a little different. let's see it. "if you can make a girl laugh, you can make her do anything, except for butt stuff. it's going to take diamonds for butt stuff." [ laughter and applause ] unless it's a diamond ring. then you don't get any stuff. next we've got buddha, our chubby little friend, who said, "health is the greatest gift. contentment, the greatest wealth. faithfulness, the best relation

. >>> raven simone says she's not african-american. in an interview on oprah's o.w.n., the former "cosby show" star says she traces her roots to louisiana, not africa, adding she's an american, which she called a colorless person. she also says she doesn't want to be labeled gay, but rather a human who likes other humans. >>> they're probably not following you on twitter, but soon could be analyzing your tweets. m.i.t. will scrutinize every tweet ever made. twitter has awarded the school $10 million to do that. it's a study about online communication patterns. one of the major goals is to look at how social media generates negative energy better than it generates positive energy. >>> starting friday, you can shop for more than groceries at walmart. the world's largest retailer is launching a new website now to help customers compare insurance plans. walmart's teaming up with help.com. the website allows people to compare health care options and enroll in a plan. walmart customers can enroll online or in store. insurance agents from direct help will be there at stores t

media erupted over raven simone's comments during an interview with oprah. >> tired of being labeled.n-american, i'm an american. >> earlier pharrell williams addressed the concept of being black or new black. the new black, he said, doesn't blame other races for our issues. the nut black dreams and realizes it's not pigmentation it's eight mentality and it's either going to work for you or against you. and during a 2013 b.e.t. interview, zoe saldana had the following to say about ethnicity. >> i literally run away from people that use words like ethnic. it's -- it's preposterous, you know? to me, there's no such thing as people of color. >> so want to know if she literally runs away from people. but comments like those have sparked sustained dialogue about what it means to be black. yet the parallel discussion about what it means to identify as white less frequently occurs. but one filmmaker, whitney dow, set out to initiate that conversation with his new interactive documentary called "the whiteness project'. inside the white/caucasian box. first installment released october 6th and