The Wendy Williams Show: Taye Diggs Talks Growing Up Black in a White Environment

Taye Diggs talked about meeting his wife on the set of Rent. Diggs also discussed his attitude toward blacks who disapprove of his marriage to a white woman. Further, Diggs recalled being made fun of by both blacks and whites for not fitting in either racial world. Diggs mentions his children’s book Chocolate Like Me, which he hopes will foster racial self-esteem among black children.

Video courtesy of BET.

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  • Diego

    why is this man still talking???

  • Hopeisgood

    Is this the same man whom acknowledge he does not like black women? Also, blames black women for not watching his show on ABC. Crawl back under the rock you came from.
    “Chocolate Like Me” from him,# Hypocrite.

  • JoJo’93

    You can tell this lame inferior complex bald negro is suffering mentally, how sad. I bet he probably covers all of the mirrors in his home. Dude need to get some therapy and need to STFU asap.

  • huh

    This dude is a joke! I grew up in an privilleged in a nice home and 4 new cars in the drivway at any given time, new clothes to go to birthday parties. Family vacations a foriegn car for my 16th birthday.. How is this being raised white? Do us all a favor and go on down the road with all this b.s. you trying to sell,being raised in a white area doent make you white. You sound stupid! Whatever is really buggin you go to counseling…

  • stranger

    omg u guys are such haters….that is very sad! 

  • Oh Please

    He’s just as confused as Tiger Woods. 

  • Jet-lee

    look at the BITTER PATHTIC BLACKWOMEN posting

    • Forreals

      Bitter my arse! I have more of an acting career than this self hating loser does and I have never acted a day in my life! If anything it’s him who is bitter cuz he screwed up with his movie base – the black woman – and obviously he’s not loved enough by whites to be a crossover actor and it has culminated into his career being done! Love who u want, marry who u want but these black actors need to respect that when u isolate your base supporters it affects your career! A sista ain’t got to pay her money to see his movies just as he ain’t got to want a sista on his arm!

      • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWZ4NXJ6IDDMD5YRZVTXFHI4J4 Ha Ha

         Just wondering how many black women didn’t go see Hutsle and Flow?  How many didn’t go see Red Tails?  I understand your sentiments but I think his career sinking has nothing to do with him marrying a white woman.  It has more to do with the fact that he likely thought he would be better accepted if he married a white woman.

        • veo99

           Hmmm!! Where’s his acceptance now??? Ooops!!! People should not misunderstand black women – They are not particularly angry that he married a white woman, but more at the fact that he would degrade his black women, while doing what he or any other black man is within their rights to do. Black women do date and marry outside their ethnicity, but will always back up their black brothers and support them, so this is where the difference lies. I for one am married to an Indian man, but I would never throw rocks at a black man just to please the masses. My father is a proud black man and admire and respect as well as identify with anyone that looks like him.

  • Cairo5

    You know Taye is looking at Wendy thinking ‘u black woman are ugly’.LOL. He has an inferiority complex, its obvious. SHAME

  • Rah Truth

     I couldn’t care less who he’s married to. I LOVE Black men, but wouldn’t turn down a good White man solely b/c he’s White. I’m much more concerned with the fact that Taye’s legs are crossed tighter than Wendy’s. What’s that all about?!

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWZ4NXJ6IDDMD5YRZVTXFHI4J4 Ha Ha

       I would guess he doesn’t like black women because he was either molested by one or molested one when he was younger.  Likely has some homosexual tendency and you know white girls like it in the arse.

  • Loves_crown

    He is a clown and fool. Obviously he had never traveled and experienced other cultures. Sad!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_AQ7LDCFUWJWMKDXGINBOXDP6BU johnnie

    this sellout clown!!!!! How he gonna write a story about growng up black, and suffering, then marrying a becky….

  • Anonymous

    Only Bitter women without men care about what another man does! I am a black women, married to a strong black man so I could really care less if another man dates black white or indian hey that’s on them. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWZ4NXJ6IDDMD5YRZVTXFHI4J4 Ha Ha

    As a black woman that experienced similar circumstances growing up I have to say…”to each their own”.  But if it ends up like Terence Howard he can’t be mad. 

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWZ4NXJ6IDDMD5YRZVTXFHI4J4 Ha Ha

    No wonder the black community is in the condition its in.  Black people can’t get past talking about other people’s issues rather than attempting to resolve their own.  I’m just sayin…

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/NWZ4NXJ6IDDMD5YRZVTXFHI4J4 Ha Ha

    Also…just wondering if you all have the same opinion of Nick Cannon.  Is he a sell out too for marrying Mariah? 

    • Whatev

      No. Mariah is half-Black.

    • Whatev

      Also, folks label Taye as a sell out because he speaks ill of Black women. I have never heard Nick talk bad about Black women, or women more Black than Mariah.

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  • Whatev

    I was the ONLY Black child in my class, in a mostly-white, “multi-cultural” elementary school. I then went on the an extremely exclusive college prep school, all girls, and the parties we went to had NO Black boys at them. The boys there were not interested/could not show interest in me. Now they approach me en masse but I am not interested… Point being  I am used to whites all through life but better believe my husband will be what I like best and find most beautiful… and have most in common with… my own. 

    “Love who you want”, but don’t use growing up with whites as an excuse. YOU are still Black, Taye. 

    Ugh @ when he said “I think it upsets THEM-” and pushed his hand out. Sellout, boo! 

  • CONCERNED

    This is bull….He is with a white woman because this is who he wants to be with and Taye be man enough to say it…..If you wanted a black woman you would be with one….there are so many black, beautiful and educated woman out here….Growing up in a white neighborhood is bull, because I did and I still married a BLACK man…You married what you desired….You can act like a black man in movies but in real life you are as white as this background!

  • Shelia

    WHY DOES THIS MAN THINK THAT BW WERE UPSET WITH HIM BECAUSE HE MARRIED A WM.  WHO CARES.  I AM SO SICK AND TIRED OF THESE GAY BM TRYING TO MAKE IT SEEM LIKE WE ARE JEALOUS OF THEM.  I ALSO NOTICED THAT HE DID NOT HAVE MUCH TO SAY ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE WHO WERE CALLING HIM NAMES ONLY BLACKS.  THIS MAN HAS SOME SERIOUS SELF ESTEEM ISSUES AND HE NEEDS COUNSELING

  • Shelia

    THIS MAN IS FULL OF IT.  I WENT TO A SCHOOL THAT WAS LEST THAT 1 PERCENT BLACK AND I DON’T HAVE ANY ISSUES.  I HAD WHITE AND BLACK FRIENDS. THIS MAN HAS LOW SELF ESTEEM.  I AM MARRIED TO A WHITE MEN AND I DID NOT MARRY HIM BECAUSE I HAD PROBLEMS WITH BM.  GET A LIFE.