BET doesn’t sound happy
with Stacey Dash.
The network has responded
to remarks the “Clueless” actress and Fox
News Contributor made during an appearance on Wednesday’s “Fox
& Friends,” during which she called the #OscarsSoWhite controversy
“ludicrous” and suggested that African-American celebrations like
Black History Month should be eliminated.
“We have to make up
our minds. 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 on the cable news show. “If
it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It’s a double
standard.”
In a message shared on its
Twitter and Instagram accounts, BET acknowledged Stacey’s comments with a
reminder that she had co-starred on one of its shows.
“Soooooo @realstaceyldash, can we get our check back… or nah?” the post read, captioning a screenshot of Stacey on BET’s former comedy-drama series “The Game.”
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Adding, “#Remember#YouWereOnTheGame #AndWeDontMeanTheRapper.”
The
network’s social media reaction also included a link to a photo gallery on its
website, titled “Every Time Stacey Dash Proved She Was Clueless.”
Every Time Stacey Dash Proved She Was Clueless: https://t.co/mto8DSxVhe pic.twitter.com/NBDorO6Jna
— BET (@BET) January 20, 2016
“She
thinks there needs to be a white history month too, since, you know, our
ancestors apparently fought for nothing,” the most recent caption read.
“Clueless indeed.”
Stacey
clarified her position further when “Fox & Friends” host Steve
Doocy asked if she
thinks there “shouldn’t be a BET channel.”
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“No, I don’t think so.
No,” she said. “Just like there shouldn’t be a Black History Month.
You know? We’re Americans. Period. That’s it.”
After her comments went
viral, the TV personality backed up her stance in a personal blog entry.
“I’ve
written about this before, but apparently people are going nuts over what I
said on Outnumbered today,”
Stacey wrote.
“I’m not alone,”
she added, linking to a 2005 “60 Minutes” interview with Morgan
Freeman in which he appears to share her sentiment.
“I don’t want a Black
History Month,” the Oscar winner says in the clip, calling the tradition
“ridiculous.” “Black history is American history.”
As previously reported on
AccessHollywood.com, stars like Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee recently
declared their intentions to boycott this year’s Oscars after the Academy
nominated only white actors for the second consecutive year.
“Is
it time that people of color recognize how much power, influence, that we have
amassed, that we no longer need to ask to be invited anywhere?” Jada said
in a video posted to her Facebook page on Monday. “Maybe it’s time
that we recognize that if we love and respect and acknowledge ourselves in the
way in which we are asking others to do, that that is the place of true
power.”
— Erin Biglow
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