“Essence, I am extremely disappointed with your Reggie Bush cover,” Melinda wrote. “Why continue to build the stigma in our community that to really have ‘made it,’ you have to get a ACBB (Any Color But Black) woman on your arm. Especially, focusing on Reggie Bush, who chose an ACBB woman, whose claim to America’s mainstream fame was a sex tape with Ray-J . . . This is not a portrayal of black love and relationships.”
On another Web site, Tania wrote, “I finally convinced my mother to cancel her subscription over this crap. Essence is supposed to be a BLACK WOMEN’S magazine devoted to LIFTING UP the Black woman. Men who do not spend their resources, intimacies, and time lifting up the black woman should not have a spot in her specific magazine.” (more…)
“This is not a portrayal of black love and relationships”
But this is…
Dated "Black" and now is dating a White man. She even had her first child with him.
Serena has tried "something new". Iman has been doing it for years and is married and has a family.
Alfre Woodard and her husband
Garcelle Beauvais and children. "Black love" or a woman who loves her man and their children?
Essence magazine when as far as to call Robin Thicke “White Chocolate” (and how many sistahs do we know REALLY dig Thicke?)
But see, in this game of “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the Blackest of them all?”, there are never any true winners. The Black women who routinely make this an issue (Black men dating White women), will almost always hold up the examples I pointed out above as true Black divas. Black man does it? “How can you let US down?”
