Taye Diggs on Black women.

So, Taye Diggs' show Day Break is ghost and he's lashing out. Apparently, Black women refused to watch and support his show since his love interest was non-Black. I'm used to the television, make that the entire entertainment, industry turning it's back on Black women, so it was no biggie to me, but I can certainly understand why Black women would be upset about the casting.

Well, in last month's issue of Rolling Out magazine he talked about why black woman are more accepting of Will Smith and Denzel Washington:

“What [black women] were happy about was that [Eva 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.”

It sounds to me like he's hatin' on Will and Denzel. Are you sad your career hasn't blown up like them, huh Taye-Taye? And he cops a major attitude when the writer pointedly asks about his wife, a non-Black woman:

“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.”

Sounds to me like Taye Diggs' career is done, at least in the eyes of Black women. I can't see Black women (yes, myself included) supporting him in another movie or television show. I knew there was a reason I wasn't such a big fan of his - he always seemed a bit disingenuous - but I had been willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Well, not anymore. He seems waaay to defensive for a man who would like to give the appearance that he's secure in his "blackness" and personal choice to marry a non-Black woman. He's forgetting his fan base, the women who went out in droves to support him in How Stella Got Her Groove Back, The Best Man and Brown Sugar. For the complete article, go here.