{"id":22454,"date":"2013-07-11T17:01:09","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22454"},"modified":"2013-07-11T17:01:09","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:01:09","slug":"essence-criticized-for-putting-the-rock-on-the-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=22454","title":{"rendered":"Essence Criticized For Putting \u201cThe Rock\u201d On The Cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many women are criticizing <em>Essence Magazine\u2019s<\/em> decision to put <strong>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson <\/strong>on the cover of the August 2013 issue.<\/p>\n<p>The cover article calls him one of the sexiest brothers in the world, but many are angry that he is being profiled by a Black women\u2019s magazine, but yet \u201che doesn\u2019t date Black women\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Some are saying that if you google \u201c<strong>Dwayne Johnson<\/strong> girlfriend,\u201d you will never find a picture of him with a Black woman. Nearly all of the images are of white women, and some are asking: \u201cIs he on the cover of Essence to celebrate Black women or to exploit them for their money?\u201d Others are saying: \u201cSo what!! If he doesn\u2019t date Black women, who cares?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Inside the issue, <strong>\u201cThe Rock\u201d<\/strong>, who is 41-years old, talks about what it means to take care of a woman.<\/p>\n<p>He comments: \u201c\u2026When I say I\u2019m going to take care of a woman, I don\u2019t just mean physically or sexually or romantically. I\u2019m going to take care of her emotionally and spiritually. I\u2019m going to take care of her in all ways. I take a lot of pride in that today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many women are criticizing Essence Magazine\u2019s decision to put Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson on the cover of the August 2013 issue. The cover article calls him one of the sexiest brothers in the world, but many are angry that he is being profiled by a Black women\u2019s magazine, but yet \u201che doesn\u2019t date Black women\u201d. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}