"Oscars are awarded to the actors and actresses who excel.not the audience," she wrote. "It would be great if the Oscar nominees represented even closely the percentage of moviegoers who are of different ethnicities, but they don't," he said, according to the New York Daily News.ĭash doesn't think he understands the award. In the post titled " How BET Lies to Black People," she cited recent quotes from the President of Programming Stephen Hill, who weighed in on the lack of diversity at this year's upcoming Oscars. "But, I look forward to the day when people don't self-segregate based on skin color, while loudly complaining about a segregated society." "I'm thankful for all of the acting jobs I've had," she continued. The network didn't take kindly to her remarks, responding to her public call on their Instagram account and asking for their paycheck back for her recurring role on one of the network's previous original shows, The Game.įresh off the presses, Dash retorted with a lengthy-and fired up-blog post directed at the decades-old program: "Thank you for reminding me, since most people have never heard of that show." "If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. Either we want to have segregation or integration and if we don't want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards where you're only awarded if you're black," she said during a broadcast of Fox & Friends Wednesday. The 49-year-old was addressing the current Oscar backlash from celebrities like Jada Pinkett Smith and Lupita Nyong'o regarding the lack of diversity among the nominees this year. The Clueless actress and Fox News contributor recently came under fire after she called for the end of the BET network and Black History Month on live television. It's Stacey Dash's turn in this racial war of words.
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