“If you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream awards, you tend to create your own,” explains Union. Related: Stacey Dash Responds to BET Backlash by Slamming the Network for “Lying to Black People’ “Was she on Roc-A-Fella ?… I heard of a crazy lady last week, but I don’t know what her name is.” Īs Union added, she believes the BET Awards, the ALMA Awards and the Country Music Awards remain important because “mainstream” awards such as the Oscars continue to demonstrate a lack of diversity. “Who’s that? Who’s Stacey Dash? Is she like related to Dame Dash?” quipped Union. At the Sundance Film Festival premiere of The Birth of a Nation' on Monday, Union was asked by an Associated Press reporter to give her thoughts on Dash's controversial comments about the existence of Black History Month and BET on an episode of Fox & Friends last week. When asked about Dash’s statements at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of her new film The Birth of a Nation, Union threw some serious shade. Gabrielle Union is just like the rest of us: she can't even deal with Stacey Dash. Related: BET Has The Best Response To Stacey Dash: “Can We Get Our Check Back?’ WhoIsStaceyDash That's the question that has been jokingly thrown around on social media since Gabrielle Union shaded the Clueless star and Fox correspondent for her comments on OscarsSoWhite. “If we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards,” declared the former Clueless star, “where you’re only rewarded if you’re black.” Īs the star of a BET series, Being Mary Jane, actress Gabrielle Union definitively does not agree with former Clueless star Dash’s controversial argument. published JanuIndisputable Best Reaction winner Gabrielle Union has slid into the multi-car pileup that is the fallout from Stacey Dash's troll-y sound bite about abolishing Black. As a Fox News commentator, Stacey Dash has made a name for herself by making inflammatory, outrageous comments, and took it to a whole new level last week tackled the#OscarsSoWhite controversy by calling for the elimination of the BET Awards, and, for good measure, the entire BET network itself.

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