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African American mother submits possible name for her son to the "google test"

(CNN) -- Actress Raven-Symone knows exactly who she is, and that person can't be defined with the usual labels. That's what the former "Cosby Show" star told Oprah Winfrey on OWN on Sunday night, as she explained why she doesn't like to be labeled as gay or African-American.

The Ebola epidemic hit a particular nerve with the artist. "People in the African continent are more regarded as an abstract statistic than a patient in the U.S. or Europe," he said. "How many individual stories do we know about any African patients? None. They are treated as an indistinguishable crowd."

Blog post about a facebook response to the ny times article Emily posted

Editor's note: Bryant Terry is an Oakland, California-based healthy eating advocate and author of "Afro-Vegan: Farm Fresh African, Caribbean, and Southern Flavors Remixed." Follow him on Twitter @bryantterry. The opinions expressed are solely those of the author.