'Clueless’ Stacey Dash Oscars Boycott Solution: Eliminate BET & Black History Month
Actress Stacey Dash, best known for her role as Dionne in Clueless, has a solution to the Oscars boycott: she thinks that BET and Black History Month should both be eliminated.
Dash appeared on Fox and Friends where she shared her thoughts on the Oscars and their lack of diversity in nominees this year. The actress told host Steve Doocy, "We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration." She went on to prove her point by stating, "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. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms. It's a double standard."
Later during the interview she decided to not only defend her stance on the BET channel but included her thoughts on Black History Month. When asked to repeat her opinion about the channel, she did and took her stance one step further by saying "Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know? We're Americans. Period. That's it."
Host Doocy was quick to ask her to clarify her stance by saying, "Because there is no White History Month?" She simply replied "Exactly, exactly."
Stacey Dash is the latest celebrity to speak out on the Oscar drama. Her stance is quite different from other celebrities like Snoop Dogg, Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee, who all plan on boycotting the show this year. Although she did remark that boycott threats were "ludicrous," she does believe that the Academy should be "more integrated" and "that there needs to be more diverse people in the process of electing nominees."
The Fox News contributor, who is currently suspended from the show due to remarks about President Barack Obama and terrorism, is not shy about speaking her mind and the Oscar controversy is proving to be no different.