Black Hollywood....

Two of my favorite actresses, Nia Long and Sanaa Lathan cover Essence...oh and Gabrielle Union is on there too. All three women are beautiful but only two (Nia and Sanaa) are actually good at their craft and deserve to get paid to do what they do. Gabby, is the worst actress....she makes the same faces in every scene, she never commits, and she is the same person in every film. I mean even her Neutrogena commercial is difficult to watch. Watch Something The Lord Made (Mos Def plays the hell out of his part and she gives him nothing to act off of and he still kills it. The scene that gives it all away is when an old friend knocks on the door and Mos goes to answer it, Gabrielle runs out the kitchen only to stop and look at the door and smile -- never once addressing the man at the door (and words wouldn't even be needed) -- and then points to the daughter like "looks whose at the door"....its hard to explain but even the most non acting-est bitch would have done that scene and so many others so differently.) The point is, I am thrilled they are on the cover of this month's Essence (looking fab, I might add) because I actually care about what's going on with Sanaa and Nia (especially since Nia is doing the damn thing on her show Big Shots)....Gabrielle talks about how the black community makes up lies about her "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." The only thing I'm going to say is that you don't hear about Nia or Sanaa fuckin different men each week and homewrecking.....most times these stories may be exaggerated or plain ol' lies but I think they start from somewhere. Gabby, maybe you should invest as much time as you do to being out and about (cuz you know I'm not mad at you for being out and about) to learning and studying your art (altho I don't think it will help much)....you might get talked about for your work and not who you are fuckin this week. Just a thought.