“But like I said, over the past eight years we’ve had a president who is black, who gets his funding mainly from Hollywood - the elite liberals - so it’s odd to me that this has now become such an issue. “The good news is that there’s attention brought to it now,” Dash concluded. “How can that be? And why is that just now being addressed?” Dash asked after observing that President Obama gets “most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood.”ĭash advocated for “more diverse people” in the Academy, and ultimately seemed to side with the backlash she called “ludicrous” just minutes earlier.Īlso Read: #OscarsSoWhite Creator Doesn't Buy Academy President's New Diversity Push The “Clueless” actress did, however, point out there are not “very many roles for people of color” in Hollywood.Īlso Read: #OscarsSoWhite: What Are the Academy's Membership Requirements, Anyway? “Are you saying there shouldn’t be a Black History Month because there isn’t a White History Month?” 20, 2018, Vanity Fair 's Gabriel Sherman first broke the news that The Five co-host Kimberly Guilfoyle would be leaving the network.
Steve Doocey, the Fox News host interviewing her, asked her to clarify her position. We’re Americans, period.”Īlso Read: #OscarsSoWhite Again: Idris Elba, 'Straight Outta Compton' Snubs Spotlight Lack of Diversity There shouldn’t be a black history month.
“If it were the other way around, we’d be up in arms. Either we want to have segregation or integration, and if we don’t want segregation, then we have 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 continued. “I think it’s ludicrous,” Dash said on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” when asked about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy. Fox News contributor Stacey Dash has dismissed outrage over Oscars diversity following the exclusion of any nominees of color in this year’s acting categories, and suggested that true integration of blacks in American society should mean the end of Black History Month.
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