essence magazine yet more slurs against black men

the magazine which funded something new and all its stereotypes against black men (homosexual, thuggish etc) is at it again and has attempted to slur neyo

http://www.vibe.com/blog/vc/2006/08/is_neyo_coming_out.html

then later

http://www.vibe.com/blog/vc/2006/08/ne-yo_gay_rumors_false.html

now if I was NEYO I would sue essence magazine, how much crap do black man have to put up with? this magazine is a black female magazine owned by a white man, even though it masquerades as a black magazine in reality it is nothing more than a tool of propaganda used by white men and black women to attack black men.

 

http://www.vibe.com/blog/vc/2006/08/ne-yo_gay_rumors_false.html

Although you posted the link you obviously did not read the contents which I pasted below. Vibe made the error of running that piece in the first place. And you're also helping this rumor to circulate. Like someone posted in the comments section: "you say the rumors are false... yet you put up the gayest image possible of this man lol."

 

You BOTH KNOW the rumors aren't true. Ne-yo is hot right now in the music industry, and he's only 19, right? Plus, most of his songs are full of sexual innuendo, and he's a black male, this is America, and the publication spreading rumors about him is Essence, so if you put all of that together, it's controversy GOLD.

 

your right lexington, I wont give it another thought. it just annoys me the way essence continues to attack and slur black men pointlessly.

 

Essence had nothing to do with that article the other magazine ran to hastily. Women's magazine always include discussion regarding the opposite sex and in no way are BM being slandered as you say. Cosmo and Madmoiselle may be more to your liking though.

 

did you actually read the first link?
it says the story was written by someone from essence, this is what this magazine does, it constantly slurs black men.

 

You still don't get it. I read the contents from BOTH links. Vibe is even admitting that the press release they came across is bogus. Look at it more carefully...plus I included a blurb in my first post on this thread.

 

Is it possible that the article wasn't written by someone from Essence, and that the author who wrote it just used Essence as a scapegoat because of the contents of it's magazine?

 

The second link also says in it that the PR department of Essence says that the article is 'as real as a 4 dollar bill.'

 

Seriously, does any black man take Essence seriously anymore?