THINGS THEY SAY: GABBY ON BLACK BLOGS!

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In a new inteview in the Decemeber issue of Essence magazine, actresses Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, and Gabrielle Union talk candidly about the real challenges of being a Black woman in Hollywood, dealing with negativity on the Internet, and staying true to themselves. When asked how do they deal with gossip on the internet Gabrielle decided to answer the question. Here’s what she had to say about the gossip blogs run by Black women.

“Last week somebody gave me a baby. This isn’t Perez Hilton or the White gossip people, these are women of color, specifically Black women who, for whatever reason, don’t like the company I keep. And now because everyone is clamoring for celebrity tidbits, the bigger gossip sites and even mainstream entities are picking up on it. No fact-checking, no nothing. And in one week’s time, there were like five different dudes, a baby—I’m a homewrecker. In literally seven days. I can’t point the finger at the White media. They don’t care about us. Paparazzi are not staked out in front of any of our houses. They are not going through our garbage because they don’t care about us in that way. So when you hear crap about us, it is coming from our own community, which hurts.There is this idea that there is integrity in journalism; if it’s written it has to be true. But that’s not the case. When blogs or any of the magazines get it wrong, there’s no accountability. In the next breath, they’ll complain on the blogs that we don’t have enough Black stars. Well, you rip us to shreds every two seconds from our nose to the weave to the clothes to the shoes to the ashy ankles.”

Wow. I’ll try not to be too harsh when it comes to Gabrielle since the gossip really affects her, but if she’s caught slippin’… that’s on her.

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