Gabrielle Union is fed up with the way she's been portrayed on many of the Black, non-news blogs. The 35-year-old actress was once a fan of many of the online blogs, but once
"October [2007] was a really bad month for our blogs," the actress began. "It was also the month that I was literally crisscrossing the globe. It was the month that I had where I was not working on a set, where I was lobbying different state legislatures to get more funding for centers and I'm going to all these different breast cancer events all around the country."
The Omaha, Nebraska-bred talent said that she was chastised by the blogs for jet-setting across the country for her charitable causes. Instead of reporting why
"Anytime you try to negate my voice and my character and what I stand for, you're squashing all of the good work that I'm trying to do for our community. I'm talking about African-American assault victims, African-American breast cancer statistics. I'm not talking about any other community, I'm talking about us and anytime that you try and attack me and attack my character, you're attacking my voice. If no one else is speaking up about these things then we're shooting ourselves in the foot," she vented.
"I almost get to a point where you can say whatever you want to say about me, but print some facts about our community that can help somebody," she explained.
"I don't care because I combat lies. I really used to think that if you read it and you see it and it's in a magazine, a newspaper or you see it on TV, then it has to be true. And it's just not true! I don't even know how to combat that except for do more good things for the people that I care about which is my own community."
Last fall the Neutrogena spokesmodel was the subject of the blogs, a New York gossip column and one of the tabloids, which had her romantically linked to Michael Jordan, actor Hill Harper, and both rapper Ludacris and his manager, Chaka Zulu 
all in the same week.
"It's sad that people who have that forum where you have all this traffic... If I really did get arrested or stole someone's flipping husband and the wife was calling me, sure. So if I do it, talk about it. I own that, I screwed up. It's never happened! Don't create crap that is negating one of the few voices in our community that
In May 2001,
actually likes Black people, loves Black men and is actually trying to do something for our community and make changes. Don't try to kill that voice along with your stories so that you can get a couple of more subscribers. It's just bulls--t and its unfortunate," she concluded.
1. Gabrielle, nothing that is negatively and untruthfully written about you can dismiss all the positive works that you have done. People with whom you have come in contact with during these admirable missions can certainly vouch for that. Unfortunately, the internet has become the number one method of relaying information in America and it's also made it possible to spread numerous rumors without an ounce of truth or resource to back it up...there's even been a couple of celebrities who, according to info on-line had died! That is, until it was later said that it was all just a hoax. At least you haven't become one of the deceased! We live in an era where celebrity-bashing has become one of our greatest pastimes. I'm afraid the business you're in requires you to have really thick skin though it's sort of refreshing to know that even after having been in the spotlight for some time now, you're still very "civilian" sensitive. Keep your head up, girlie. You know who you are...when you rest your head on your pillow at night, that's all that really matters.
DarkNLuvly at 5:17PM on Jan 15th 2008