BLACK WOMEN......you know yall wrong
By estarga
@estarga (1188)
United States
December 22, 2006 6:36am CST
Taye Diggs blames black women for the cancellation of his show "Daybreak".
Here is a snippet of the interview from concreteloop.com:Last month he sat down with Rolling Out magazine to talk about why black woman are more accepting of the “Will Smith” & “Denzel” types:“What[black women] were happy about was that[Mendes’ character in Hitch] wasn’t white; she was Latina,” Diggs explains when asked why Will Smith’s role in the film didn’t draw as much cultural ire as some of the choices he’s made on- and off-screen. “That’s what they were happy about, if we’re gonna be real. That’s how the scale goes. First off, if it’s a dark brother and the dark brother isn’t with a dark sister that causes issues. … After that, if you’re going to date outside the race, then they go down the list of how poorly other minorities have been treated after blacks.[So] after that, you have Latino. … Like, I’ve had people say that about my wife: ‘At least she looks Spanish.’ Like that makes it a little bit better. So that’s why people accepted it. If Will Smith had been with a lily-white woman, it would’ve been a completely different situation in the black community as far as females are concerned. I guarantee you that.”[SOURCE]Here is when he got a little attitude when the interviewer asked him about his white wife:“I’m too far along in my life and in my career to really give a question like that any type of dignified answer,” says Diggs, who was raised in black, middle-class Rochester, N.Y., intones. “When I was in high school, maybe. College, maybe. But I’m a grown-!ss man and if people have a difficult time dealing with that, then I welcome them to see a movie with Omar Epps or Denzel Washington or some of those other brothers that have chosen to spend the rest of their lives with sisters, as you say. I just don’t have time for it. You can’t make everybody happy. And for the fans that are out there that are into me; they don’t really give a f— what’s going on with my personal life.”[SOURCE][Courtesy of concreteloop.com]Personally, I didn't attempt to watch the show it was on during something I liked much better, it was on during 2 things that I liked so I never got the oppurtunity to view the show. As an Black women I could care less who he is with, I just didn't get the chance to watch it. The show looked like the episode version of Denzels new movie "Deja Vu".
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@sweetcakes (3504)
• United States
22 Dec 06
i forgot all about the show, oh well
he'll get over it. his comment doesn't bother me at all that's how he feel so be it.
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@disvachic (10117)
• United States
22 Dec 06
I watched that show only a few times i wasn't into it all like dat.He has a stank attitude in dat interview.Its not our fault his darn show got cancelled!
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@missinghim (1339)
• United States
27 Dec 06
Now that was REALLY corny of him! How DARE he blame his failure on black women? Who does he think he is... if the show was in a time slot that was competing with better shows, then how's that our fault? Sounds like he's a lil crazy and insecure.
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@ScarletAlston (2693)
• United States
27 Dec 06
for one, I don't ever remember liking ANYTHING that cupcake has acted in..so I know as a black woman or not I had no desire to watch anything new he did recently...we black women treat him like we treat the rest of the black men who don't know about loyalty to their women..WE SAY SCREW THEM AND PAY THEM NO MIND!! We don't give a flying #$^! who his wife is or if he chose to hate on Will Smith on the low..Will Smith's wife Jada is a black woman and we really don't pay him much attention..so its a bunch of crap to me..when Taye gets an Oscar, or gets shot 9 times, maybe then he will get more attention, until then, I will continue to confuse him for morris chestnut
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@natuser28 (907)
• United States
27 Dec 06
Maybe its the quality of the show not black women dogging him because of his preferences.
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@Trace86 (5030)
• United States
27 Dec 06
I wonder which one came first, Daybreak or Deja Vu? I kept getting the commercials mixed up in my head. I had a favorable impression of Taye but now I am not sure what to think. Is he stable? It is very unfair to blame one sector of the population for his own failure though. Nobody has that much influence.
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@uvbnskoold (499)
• Canada
26 Dec 06
I watched Day Break and have to say the premise was sound but the execution was flawed. I think Diggs' response was a little heavy for the question, but the question was stupid [the one about his wife being white]. That was just asking for him to get a little upset.
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