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Ten years ago, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, put a young man by the name of Taye Diggs, on the map to movie success. Then he starred in The Best Man. Then...it was leaked that he was married to a white woman...and Poof he dissappeared.
The last thing roles he played in were on television. ABC cancelled the show Day Break. His show Kevin Hill was cancelled on the now defunct UPN network in 2006.
What happened?
I can't call it...but I do remember there was a lot of ire over the ABC series in which his love interest was a non black woman and sh hit the fan on BV.
He's not a bad actor, but I just can't forget that beatdown he received from Morris Chestnut in Best Man.
Damn!!!
The Brutha got his a$$ WHOOPED!
The white woman defense:
Taye probably lost some of his fan base when he said this to Rolling Out Magazine: 2006
“What [black women] were happy about was that [Mendes’ character in Hitch] wasn’t white; she was Latina,” Diggs explains when asked why Will Smith’s role in the film didn’t draw as much cultural ire as some of the choices he’s made on- and off-screen. “That’s what they were happy about, if we’re gonna be real. That’s how the scale goes. First off, if it’s a dark brother and the dark brother isn’t with a dark sister that causes issues. … After that, if you’re going to date outside the race, then they go down the list of how poorly other minorities have been treated after blacks. [So] after that, you have Latino. … Like, I’ve had people say that about my wife: ‘At least she looks Spanish.’ Like that makes it a little bit better. So that’s why people accepted it. If Will Smith had been with a lily-white woman, it would’ve been a completely different situation in the black community as far as females are concerned. I guarantee you that.”
Then the interveiwer proceeded to ask him about his wife and thats when Taye got a little irritated.
"I'm too far along in my life and in my career to really give a question like that any type of dignified answer, says Diggs, who was raised in black, middle-class Rochester, N.Y., intones. When I was in high school, maybe. College, maybe. But Im a grown-[censored] man and if people have a difficult time dealing with that, then I welcome them to see a movie with Omar Epps or Denzel Washington or some of those other brothers that have chosen to spend the rest of their lives with sisters, as you say. I just don't have time for it. You can't make everybody happy. And for the fans that are out there that are into me; they don't really give a f- what's going on with my personal life."
He never did anything for me. 
Morris Chestnut 
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