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I don't quite understand your reply.

6 lines into the initial post I posted the exact same article in its entirity. Where the version that you posted ended, and where the full article continues..the very next lines of the article are literally a clarification.
I'm assuming that a (female) journalist for Ebony would have not let Snipes slide for something that she deemed offensive. She asked and he gave his reply.


If you find that offensive...I can't tell you what offends or doesn't offend you, now would I try.


In the pre internet era when these interviews took place, the posted ebony, the posted jet and the alleged essence interviews have never been seen personally by as many people who were repeating the story.

What I've actually read is nothing like or close to some of the stories or versions of what he said.

I actually grouped the story as a myth when I heard it...just like other "stories" of that era......like toni braxton "coming out" on Oprah............and Tommy Hilfiger appearing on oprah saying that he doesn't make his clothes for black people.

I just didn't think any celeb would be fool enough to SAY....in a BLACK PUBLICATION, no less, that he didn't want Black women or a Black woman.

I felt people were insulting my intelligence by saying some of the variants of this story to me.. Not only did it not fit with the persona that Wes had crafted for himself....mr. ankh symbol wearing too real for hollywood, but also only fools bite the hands that feed them.......and Black women surely had a big hand in the box office success that Snipes projects had.


Now I'll find and post the Interview magazine article that is alluded to in my earlier posts when they become available. Now JET, god bless Jet magazine for what they do and what they've done. ...but...that jet magazine "article" is typical 1990s "entertainment piece" an article about another article about snipes from a different magazine.
I think the jet magazine piece is the one that most people read....(probably just as they were about to checkout their groceries)...and the incomplete way they wrote about the interview is what did the most damage to Snipes' reputation.


I figure..because of the size, price, and easily digestible writing style......that JET may have had the widest circulation of any of the Black magazines.



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I just wanted to know all these years later, what the story was......what Snipes actually said and how closely people's perceptions of what he said matched his actual words.


I'll form my opinion once I read that magazine Q and A..so it's based on everything in context.

I've read and heard Black women say stuff about "sorry Black men" and other generalizations..........I know the clowns they are referring to DO exist........so I can take everything in context.