Gabrielle Union has another message for black gossip blogs
Posted by Media Outrage on December 13th, 2007
In an interview with VIBE Gabrielle Union had this to say about black blogs tearing our own celebrities down….
In your recent Essence interview, you touched on the media, mainly black-run blogs that spread rumors without checking facts. What can these outlets do differently if they don’t have you or any entertainer per se to reach out to correctly?
It’s like if you wrote for a major newspaper or a major magazine. If you can’t substantiate your claims, you don’t write them. We don’t have enough black voices, [and] we certainly don’t have enough people in entertainment who are trying to do good things for our community, so anytime you try to attack someone’s character, you negate their voice for all the things that they’re trying to do.
I come out and speak about African American sexual assault survivors and what we can do to provide support and help to those survivors. I talk about African Americans and breast cancer. But people aren’t going to listen to those things if you are spreading lies and rumors, you know what I mean? It kinda negates all the good things that you do. It makes me want to just work harder and do more good, but it’s frustrating and it makes a lot of people in my industry say, “Screw it! If I can’t even get my own people to listen and not talk ill of me, what hope do I have for mainstream media?”
If you look at what Perez [Hilton] does – and I don’t advocate for Perez, you know, he can write hurtful things about a lot of people – but what he does as a man of color, as a Latino, is he never dogs Latinos, ever. He actually breaks artists on his website. They can go from “Who the hell is that?” to Number One on iTunes in a day, just from what he says. So he’s trying to uplift his own people. I mean, he dogs everybody else, but as a man of color, I applaud you. I can’t dog you for not dogging your own people. He never says anything negative about Latinos, ever, and I just wish that we had more of that kind of “raise up” mentality and pulled each other up instead of dragging each other down. Especially like… If I got arrested, say whatever you want to say. If I had kids and left them in the car while I partied, or I got out of cabs showing all my private parts, you have every right to dog me. If I came out and dogged my own people, kill me in your blogs. But don’t make things up! I do enough, and if you really got spies everywhere you’d know what I was doing, you wouldn’t have to make things up. And if you don’t know your facts, then just don’t print them.
For more of that interview click here.
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May 27th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
o…kay…so as long as u’re not bringing down you’re own..you’re good…
but she’s partly right…the worst critics of black people aren’t whites, they’re blacks…
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:17 am
“the worst critics of black people aren’t whites, they’re blacks…” AMEN!
The majority of so called black celebrity blogs I see aren’t worth my time but, sadly, this is what our people want to read. Ask these young people about the latest news events and they’ll tell you about Beyonce and Jay-Z getting married but can’t intelligently discuss the state of our economy. Who’s to blame for that? You can’t blame it all on black bloggers although they share in the blame. They just want to get people to read their blogs.
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