Nia Long, Sanaa Lathan, and Gabrielle Union are on the cover of the new issue of Essence Magazine. The actresses spoke candidly about gossip blogs and I give a response. Check for that after the cut.

Essence: How do you deal with the 24-hours-a-day gossip that comes out on the Internet?

Gabrielle: Just 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.

Sanaa: She’s talking about the gossip sites.

Essence: The blogs.

Sanaa: That are run by Black women.

Gabrielle: 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.

Nia: We are some of the few Black actresses whose passions are rooted in our community.

Gabrielle: 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.

Editors Note: I know she (Sanaa) is referring to people like me, and Concreteloop, YBF, and my other fellow black-owned blogs…but we don’t make up these rumors, they actually come from sources owned by white people (US magazine, People Magazine, Page Six, Access Hollywood, etc.). No OFFENSE….We always try to quote where we got our information from…so I don’t agree that we are trying to talk in a negative fashion about our beautiful black actresses. It’s Entertainment News! DON’T HATE!
source Essence