Gabrielle Union -- I"m No Ronda Rousey, I"d Whoop Stacey Dash"s Ass
Gabrielle Union threw major shade at Stacey Dash during an interview at the Sundance Film Festival.
Whos that? Whos Stacey Dash? Is she, like, related to Dame Dash? Was she on Roc-a-Fella [Records]? Union joked.
Union went on to speak about the importance of networks likeBET, as well as the importance of the NAACP Image Awards and the American Latino Media Arts, or ALMA, Awards because mainstream award shows have always lacked diversity.
The more that we focus on inclusion and a true representation of this country, I think that crazy lady will have less to say, Union said.
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In case you"ve been living under a rock, there"s been a lot of talk about the 2016 Academy Awardsand the lack of diversity among this year"s acting nominees.
Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee have both said they"ll boycott the Oscars this year.But actress and Fox News contributorStacey Dash,best known for her role in 1995"s Clueless,has different ideas about diversity, including doing away withBlack History Monthand black-focused television networks like BET.
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"It"s ludicrous," Dash said Wednesday on Fox & Friends nduring a discussion about the Oscars controversy, according toUS Magazine."If we don"t want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the [NAACP] Image Awards, where you"re only awarded if you"re black." She said Americans need to get rid of Black History Month so people can celebrate being American instead of a category.
Whoopi Goldberg,who has been talking about the Oscars on The View this week, and co-host Paula Faris responded to Dash"s comments Thursday and stressed the importance of Black History Month, according toEUR.
"It"s not taught, as it pertains to America," Goldberg said. "American history holds all of us, but we"re not all treated like Americans. One of the reasons there is a BET is because networks wouldn"t take a lot of the shows that have an all-black cast."
"White history month is every other month, so Black History Month is there to spotlight the history," co-host Joy Behar said.
Instagram, Twitter and Facebook blew up following Dash"s comments; even BET chimed in via Instagram Memes.
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Donald Trump weighed in on the #OscarsSoWhite situation Wednesday by pointing out what some are calling a double standard: Why do black people get to criticize the Oscars for being nearly all white, when white people dont get nominated at the BET Awards?
In a remote interview with Fox and Friends, Trump said he was impressed with Clueless actress and Fox News correspondent Stacey Dash, who suggested that there shouldnt be a Black History Month, and that the BET Awards and the NAACP Image Awards shouldnt exist.
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Black awards shows are a problem, she said, because youre only awarded if youre black. In his interview, Donald Trump agreed, and went a bit further saying that the whites dont get any nominations at the BET awards.
Actually, neither of those statements is true.
Last year, Sam Smith who is white was not only nominated at the BET Awards, but won the Best New Artist award, beating out the likes of Fetty Wap and Rae Sremmurd. Iggy Azalea, a white rapper from Australia, was nominated for Best Female Hip-Hop Artist.
Sam Smith also won an NAACP Image Award in the "Outstanding Duo, Group or Collaboration" category that year. In fact, 4 of the 10 nominees in that category were white. Steven Spielberg won a Vanguard Award at the ceremony in 2000, and "Star Wars" director George Lucas received one in 2012.
Returning to the BET Awards, Robin Thicke has been nominated four times, most recently in 2014 for Best Collaboration in Blurred Lines. Daft Punk, a pair of white men from France, were nominated that same year for Best Group.
Other white artists spotlighted at past BET awards include Eminem (nominated five times, including once during the inaugural year of the awards) and Justin Bieber (nominated in 2010 for Best New Artist).
Non-black artists of color have also been represented among nominees, in particular at the NAACP Image Awards. In recent years, stars of South Asian heritage such as "The Mindy Project" star Mindy Kaling, and Erik Valdez, a Latino actor who appears in "General Hospital," have been nominated.
Both the BET Awards and the NAACP Image Awards were founded, and still exist because, as the official NAACP site says, "the lack of racial diversity in the entertainment industry still exists."
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