Taye Diggs Goes to the Mountain

Generally as a rule and it's not a hard and fast rule, I tend to ignore the entertainment industry. I'm just not interested in who married who, who got divorced or who cheated on who. It's a little too much drama for me. This is one of those times that I'm going to make an exception. And That exception would center around Taye Diggs.

Now this story broke back in October and it's still on my mind from time to time. Some of you kneegroes, I know, have already forgotten. Some of you went, "aha! I knew it". I bet more that a few of you black women called him everything but a child of God. Then there were those of you who probably said or thought, "his business is his business". I fell into the latter group when I first read the article. His business is his business.

But like I said, why did it keep nagging at me? I don't know Taye Diggs from the pimples on J.Lo's ass. The only thing I know about Taye Diggs is that he's a sometime actor with minimum talent and modest good looks. Well, that's not entirely true. I now know that he has had this longing, this goal, this desire or craving if you will, to make the hook up with a white woman. I know that he has felt that his life would not be complete until he achieved this goal.

I know that in his quest for the only woman who could provide him succor and peace on this earth was white. I know that in his pursuit for perfection, he must have dated (sic) a lot of black women or dare I said played a lot of black women, because they never stood a chance with him.

I only bring this up because I haven't heard this sentiment from a black men in quite some time. Ok. His mother said it. But he confirmed it and I take it she was speaking his thoughts and feelings at the time. There's an old saying that describes black men like Taye Diggs: The only thing a black woman can do for me is, show me the way to a white woman.

I guess a lot of you think that his life is his life and I'm making too big a deal of this. Maybe I am, but when you put yourself out there, you should be aware of how you're presenting yourself. You should be aware that certain things are meant to be private, certain doors are supposed to remain closed. We all have private desires that we keep in the deepest recesses of our hearts, not to be shared or probed by the pubic at large. When we do happen to disclose one of our desires to the public eye, it's usually an emotional moment and means a great deal to us. Taking this into consideration, I have made the above extrapolations. Of course, like everything else, I'm probably wrong. But I do think that maybe this has gone through the heads of most of you and if it did, you now know a little bit more about Taye Diggs than you want to and that he intended you to.

I have also been made aware of Tyler Perry and his ongoing feud with Black women. What is wrong with you people? All of you are willing players in this Cosmic Comedy of the Circus From Hell. You argue and fight amongst yourselves while our children are literally dying and getting the shit beat out of them by none other than their own parents. Where the hell is this vaunted community you're always hollering about? Where is this village that's supposed to be raising our children? I suspect it's just part of the shit you say to make yourselves seem oh so knowledgeable and wise. One thing is for certain, Taye Diggs won't have to worry about his child being bullied. Maybe, just maybe, Taye Diggs knows something that the rest of us don't, because he sure got the hell out of Dodge and away from you Kneegroes as fast as his little skinny legs could carry him.

I'm glad I got that out of the way. But you know what? I'm getting really, really scared. I'm getting scared that there's no hope for us as a people. I'm getting scared that we're becoming as twisted as those that twisted us. No wonder I moved to the hill. And so it goes.

The music of an unhappy people, of the children of disappointment; they tell of death and suffering and unvoiced longing toward a truer world, of misty wanderings and hidden ways. W.E.B. Du Bois

Dead Children

1. Jasmine McClain - 10 years old. Hung herself
2. Ashlynn Conner - 10 years old. Hung herself
3. Carl Joseph Walker Hoover - 11 years old Hung himself

These were just in the last few months!