Comments on: Essence Magazine REALLY Hates Black Women – Don’t Fight Just Walk Away!

By: Faith

Faith — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:32:47 +0000

ORLY "Jason"? Essence is a magazine for black women. What does Halle Berry have to do with this post? NOTHING. Which by the way she was apologizing profusely for actually loving a white man when she's half-white herself. Misplaced loyalties considering she was beat up so bad by a black male actor that she lost hearing in one ear. This same actor ranted in the same magazine to tout why his preference for Asian women was justified by slagging black women. But go ahead and be a whiny, pathetic excuser ~~loser~~. There's something to be said about males who troll women's blogs to slag other women. I'll simply send all your email to spam and DELETE.

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:27:23 +0000

Essence hates black men. Reggie Bush on the cover, so was Halle Berry, whats the difference?

By: Faith

Faith — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:03:43 +0000

I don't advocate supporting them financially by purchasing the rag or by going to their blog giving them ad revenue.

By: valeriesmith15

valeriesmith15 — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:20:47 +0000

I bought January's Essence and it has some good articles, I am always keen to see what black women are doing. I think that Essence should stop writing articles about what black men love about black women, that is so boring, if they want to put a black man on the cover with his non-wife. Good luck to them. Black women need to realise, there are millions of men who find us beautiful, desirable and attractive and what us for their wives. There is far too much of poor black women no-body wants them, when black women travel to other parts of the world like Australia, Italy, Northern Europe, they all seem to be married very fast indeed. Many of us have beautiful exteriors, we need to work on our personalities, we will attract the right men into our lives. We should not feel upset or angry about the man in question. There are better men waiting out there for us, we just have to know and say to ourselves every day.

By: Faith

Faith — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:02:57 +0000

Hey Nia: MESSence needs to be shredded and used for fuel so that it at least has more value than what it's like now.

By: Faith

Faith — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:01:50 +0000

Hey Pamela – congrats by the way!! Yup it's time to identify the enemies and strike their death blow!

By: Nia

Nia — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:34:55 +0000

When I first saw this last week – the first thing I thought was: "They had to have done this on purpose – to get a rise out of black women." The comments on the Essence forum is EXACTLY what they knew they would receive. It was exactly the type of sensationalism they were hoping they were looking for. Essence must be quite desperate.

The only thing I regret is that the outrage shown by black women on the Essence forum about this cover will be used against us as a whole. People will try to use it as another opportunity to paint us as miserable black women, jealous because he has a non-black woman. The best thing those ladies on the Essence forum could do is not say a word about it, and just stop buying the magazine or going on its website.

By: Pamela

Pamela — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 08:20:06 +0000

I do not remember the year that the ownership of Messance changed. HOWEVER I do remember not too long before this happened I read an anrticle (cover story) about how mansharing was an option for black women that wanted a black man. That was my last attempt to read that magazine. Looks like it has gotten even worse since it changed hands. Let it die quickly.

By: Faith

Faith — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:21:52 +0000

Hey Cheyenne:

I don’t feel they have our best interests are heart — Ding Ding Ding!!

By: Faith

Faith — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:20:41 +0000

Well a lot of women are pissed off over putting Bush on the cover. I think they need to not care about Bush and realize they're being used and cut off the financial support to the magazine instead.