Actor #TayeDiggs recently did an interview with #VanLathan for “The Red Pill” where he explained that he is no longer attracted to white women. Diggs tells tell a story about when he was a teen and told his mother he was going to marry a black woman, but then she told him that he’d marry a white woman instead. This experience led him to date white women and even marry actress #IdinaMenzel. Eventually, Diggs would be labeled as “that black man who only dates white women.”
“When I was 13, I was reading a magazine and there was a picture of a Black woman and I said, ‘Oh she’s pretty, I want to marry her.’ And my mom said, ‘Oh honey, you’re going to marry a White woman. It hurt my feelings but she was right,” Diggs confessed to Van Lathan. “To this day, whether I’m out at the club or whatever I still get, ‘I thought you only liked white girls?’”
These days, the actor says that being judged comes with the business he’s in and that he decided not to be offended by other people’s assumptions! Interestingly, Diggs says the resentment he felt from black women who felt some type of way about him dating white women has made him less attracted to them altogether! In fact, he’s currently dating a woman who is mixed with black and white.
VL: Why do you feel like you can’t mess with a White girl anymore?
TD: Because I’ve had to deal with that for so long…it has changed what I think I like or what I’m attracted to.
VL: So, no more White girls?
TD: I don’t know but it’s not where my eyes gravitate to naturally and a lot of people would say I should feel relieved but I don’t…I wasn’t raised to look at someone’s race or be attracted to one race more than another. I think any psychiatrist or therapist would say it’s probably textbook.
You guys can listen to the full podcast here. What are your thoughts, Roommates?
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Source: https://soundcloud.com/redpillpodcast/001-hollywoodsoracist-w-taye-diggs
