“Until there is no longer a need for that, I celebrate the ALMAs, the same way I celebrate the Country Music Awards, and the same way I celebrate the BET Awards and the Image Awards. If you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream awards, you tend to create your own,” she said. “It’s like why there’s a need for ‘Birth of a Nation,’ and why there’s a need for the Country Music Awards and the ALMA Awards. Union, who also stars in the BET series “Being Mary Jane,” clearly didn’t agree with Dash’s comments and stressed the need for diversity and inclusion.Īlso Read: BET Rips Stacey Dash for Being a Hypocrite: 'Can We Get Our Check Back?' (Photos) Gabrielle Union hit the red carpet at Sundance, while promoting her role in the record-breaking film Birth Of A Nation, and shared her opinion on the OscarsSoWhite controversy and Stacey Dash. 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 said. Her comments quickly sparked the hashtag #WhoIsStaceyDash, which was soon trending on both Facebook and Twitter.Īlso Read: Inside Historic Sundance Bidding War for 'Birth of a Nation': Why Netflix Offered More But Still Lostĭash caused controversy last week when, during a discussion about diversity and the Oscars, she said there shouldn’t be a Black History Month and networks like BET should be shut down. So while at the Sundance Film Festival, she was asked. “Who is that? Who’s Stacey Dash ? Is she related to Dame Dash? Was she on Roc-A-Fella ? I heard of a crazy lady once, maybe last week, but I don’t know what her name is,” Union joked on the red carpet at the Sundance premiere of the Nate Parker slave rebellion film on Monday night. Video:gabrielle Union Shades Stacey Dash Into Nonexistence by BigData(f): 3:46pm On Jan 27, 2016. When “Birth of a Nation” actress Gabrielle Union was asked about Fox News commentator Stacey Dash‘s recent comments on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, she didn’t hold back. JanuSALT LAKE CITY Actress Gabrielle Union is taking aim at Stacey Dash after the Fox News contributor last week questioned the BET channel’s existence during the Sundance Film.
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