Stacey Dash’s awkward appearance at the Oscar’s was one that a day later, still leaves us scratching our heads. When Chris Rock introduced Dash as the Academy’s new Director of the Minority Outreach Program, and she trotted on the stage with a huge smile to greet an audience of white attendees with “Happy Black History Month,” a month she doesn’t believe we should have, the entire crowd was literally shocked to the point of silence. Not a snicker or an applause. Chrissy Teigen’s reaction, in fact, was the most accurate to say the least.
So what does Stacey have to say about her appearance? Was she in on “the joke?” Did she even realize that she WAS the joke? The actress turned conservative took to her personal blog to discuss.
“You might be watching the Oscars and wondering why someone named Stacey Dash just walked across the stage. (Why was that funny anyway?),” Dash’s blog post begins. “Which brings me to the joke. When they added ME to increase the diversity, I’m sure many black people rolled their eyes. I’m not “black enough,” they say. But guess what? I’ve heard that all my life. I would rather be a free thinking, black than a cookie cutter black who thinks – and votes – just like all my friends.
Yes, I’m the actress from the South Bronx who has always dreamed of winning an Oscar. But God has a great sense of humor and this is my first encounter with one of my dreams of destiny. Bringing diversity to Hollywood… not merely because of color, but politics as well. (After all, different colors of skin is an easy kind of diversity. Ideological diversity is much harder, because it forces everyone to come face to face with actual beliefs. Hollywood needs BOTH.)
Anyway, this is a first. A beginning.
So that’s who I am. Nice to meet you.”
Stacey has proven, once again, that “Clueless” is much more than a movie. I don’t think she realizes that this was not her breaking moment and that she was simply the butt of a failed joke about being, for lack of a better word, an Uncle Tom. The saddest part is that not one white person in that room knew who she was and the handful of black people who did, cringed at the sight of her being there. She wasn’t there to increase the “diversity”. She was there because Raven Symone was probably busy.
Stacey Dash was nothing more than a victim of being trolled. A wise woman once said, “Good luck booking those stages you speak of.”
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