Taye Diggs and wife Idina Menzel back in April
Well I actually watched “Day Break” and it wasn’t all that to tell you the truth. Just like one of the people said in the interview, Taye Diggs is corny as hell and I could care less who he is married to. Maybe the show sucked, and deserved to be cancelled. I’ve seen better shows get the boot.
Anyway….
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-ass 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]
I’m sure this will spark debate, but yall better settle down with this one.
Taye Diggs is an idiot. How dare he blame black women for his shows failure.
I am a black woman married to a white male. I would never put brothers or the black community down in an effort to justify my interracial marriage. I’ve dated men of several races and my husband just happened to be the one I fell in love with. Men like Taye usually marry outside their race to try to prove something. I see it all the time. My husband and I can be out in the mall with the kids, all of a sudden I get the dirty looks, the rolling of the eyes, etc… Guess what, it’s usually from black men who are hugging up on some white woman… LOL go figure! There are 2 types of people in interracial relationships. The first type are those that don’t see color as an issue or an asset; they just date whomever strikes their fancy. The second kind are the Tayes and the Whoopies. The second kind feels obligated to diss the black community – especially black woman. Usually referring to black woman as mean, ghetto, or attitude prone. How stupid. These are the self hating asses who blame “blacks” for everything wrong in their lives. Hey Taye, your show sucked…get over it. Don’t blame me for it being cancelled. And for the record, your not such a hot actor to begin with…
On another note…
I was honestly a bit pissed off that his love interest in the show was white. Why? Because every show that stars at least one black male always pairs him up with a non black female. Yet, how often do you see a black female on prime time television, being paired up with a white male? When Ross on friends dated Gabtrielle Union, that was axed quicker than you can snap two fingers.
Lets face it. Society puts white women on some stupid pedistal. They are taught when they were young, that they are the most beautiful creatures in the world and that all men should and will desire them. That is why so many white woman put the evil eye on me when they see me with my husband. I’m a brown skin, 6ft tall black chick, with a big boodie, big boobs, and thick lips. They look at my tall, blond blue eyed hubby like he is crazy. I guess it blows their minds that he didn’t choose one of them.
Some black men feel in order to get back at black women and to get back at white men…marry or date white women. How Silly.
A good spouse is a good spouse, no matter what color their package happens to be. Turn out the lights and we are all black.
Did Taye Diggs actually say “My show got canceled because black women weren’t watching it because they hate me because I’m married to a white woman?” Is this what he said or what the media spun?
It’s just too bad that we can’t treat each other with the respect we’re forever wanting from white people.
First of all can we stop saying the word different race, we are all one fucking human race….different ethnic groups yes, different race no. Second of all, if black folks would stop worrying about what other black folks are doing and took care of themselves this topic would not even exist. The fact that a black man/woman dates or marries someone from a different ethnicity has nothing with rejection of his/her people. It has to do with where you at. If I live in a neighborhood that is mixed there is a possibilty that I might get invovled with someone who happens to not be well of my ethnicity. Same goes for anything else. Now as far as proffessional educated folks are concerned. As a black educated man of 28, who went to college has a degree in engineering and am somewhat financial secure, refuse to hook up with anything less. AT my current place of employment, I am the only brother in my dept and youngest. And to boot there are no sistas. I have a lot of white girsl my age, but no sistas. Now if I became involved with one of them it has nothing to do with rejecting sistas but it has to do with a my future as far as agina stability is concerned, mental growth, happiness and ultimately love(not exactly in that order. This very issue is tyhe same for successful sistas who struggle to make it to the top only to find dead weight brothers who want to occupy their space. It’s not haapeing whihc is why there are many succesful single black women out there. Racism is racism people let’s get over it. The reality of it is we can’t blame white folks of today for shit that white folks did to blacks eions ago. Most of the white folks that blacks hook up with aren’t even descendants of former black owners. Now with that said, I am a fan of Taye DIggs, I think he makes good movies and regardless of what, just like Will Smith on Will Smith, the characters that Taye portrayed were an honor to blacks because they did not showcase the negative views that society usually have and give blacks. When you look at Kevin Hill, he portrayed a successful black lawyer who was taking care of his cousin’s kid. who gives a rat’s ass if the women he was with in “The Show” were not black. So what….the reality of it is that is on eof the reasons why the show was cancelled. Even the network producers said so. They did not recieve the amonut of viewers that they were expecting. And the funny thing is that I strongly believe that white folks are more tolerant to inter ethnic relations than blacks….get over it…If you dont like that shit than dont do it dont fault someone else who fell in love and did not allow the hate of society come between that….As far as Day break was concerned the first two episodes were cool. But how much of the same scene can one stomach for a month…..The reason for the cancellation of that show can be argued….All and all let’s all love and be loved and move beyond who is doing who and what color they are doing. It’s 2007 soon to be 2008. Love and peace from James, professional black man.
And one last thing, did any of you read the article? If you read the article, you will notice tha the first thing that the author does is apologies because he questioned Taye two minutes within their interview about the ethnicity of his wife…..If oyu continue to read the article you will notice that within quotation marks Taye asking the author/interviewer what made him an expert on the opinion of black women….People before you start to accuse people learn to learn the whole facts and not excerpts of it. Taye himself admits to disliking the show Kevin Hill because it used false advertising to lure people in as far as the show being a “black show”. GET YOUR ACTS RIGTH PEOPLE SO THAT WE CAN MOVE ON
And as for number 348 you are really ignorant…you show nothing but ignorance, discrimating mentally and somewhat racial contempt for your own people by stating that you dont like Taye because he is TOO Black and ugly. Not the ugly part but the TOO BLACK….Why is it that we always have to discern one another via our shade of blackness….oh he too black or he too light or he/she too nappy headed…If you could make statements like that than on the real people like Don Imus has ever fucking right to say nappy headed ho….If you don’t like, if you don’t wanna hear then don’t fucking say it. Because as long as you say that shit then all you are saying is that you embrace and accept it. If you show little or no respect fro yourself dont expect people to do so either…..