Stacey Dash, the official archnemesis of the BET network, took to her blog on Wednesday night to castigate them for âkeeping racism and segregation aliveâ during the channelâs Sunday broadcast of their awards show. Dear God, we have reached the freshest hell, havenât we.
In her post, the Fox News contributor focused most of her criticism on Greyâs Anatomy star Jesse Williams and his acceptance speech for the 2016 BET Humanitarian Award, in which he more or less cited the Black Lives Matter movement. Dash zeroed in on Williamsâ moment to criticize both the actor and the network at large, accusing Williams of using âhis black activismâ and his words as âan attack on white people.â
Dashâs spewfest began after Williams mentioned the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy fatally shot by two white officers last year, which subsequently invoked the mass epidemic of police brutality and its intrinsic relation to profliling people of color.
âWhat he said was straight out of the Black Lives Matter playbook, reminding the audience that police do ânot kill white peopleâ and in fact, prefer pulling âa drive by on a 12-year-old kid [Tamir Rice] and then going home to make a sandwich.ââ she fumed.
The former Clueless star next chastised Williams for his âcriticisms for whites who have committed so-called cultural appropriation of black culture and entertainment,â which she considered his âworst.â Dash also mentioned the backlash Justin Timberlake received on social media after tweeting that he found Williamsâ speech âinspiring,â which unto itself opens a whole can of intricate and awkward identity politics.
These notions came to life shortly after Williams walked off the stage and came crashing down on Justin Timberlake, who had responded to the speech on Twitter, saying he felt inspired by it. However, black Twitter let him know that he is the worst when it comes to culturally appropriating black music and profiting from it.
âSo does this mean youâre going to stop appropriating our music and culture?â one angry Twitter user asked.
After other responses much the same, Timberlake quickly apologized, saying he was âmisunderstoodâ and then did something even worse by saying, âwe are all one⌠A human race.â Justin, my dear, there is no âonenessâ when it comes to Black Lives Matter. Theyâve planted the seed of segregation and no longer want to live in âperfect harmony,â like the old song wished. And if Michael Jackson once sang, âIt donât matter if youâre black or white,â well, it does now, at least from their perspective.
Dash ended her rant by calling Williams the âperfect example of a Hollywood plantation slave,â because yes, this is the freshest of hells, this is the Febreeziest hell youâve ever seen.
Youâve just seen the perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave! Sorry, Mr Williams. But the fact that you were standing on that stage at THOSE awards tells people you really donât know what your [sic] talking about. Just spewing hate and anger.
Because you my man are just like everyone else hustling to get money. But your cognitive dissidents [sic] has you getting it from THAT BYSTANDER whom YOU DONT NEED. Yes. BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION is WHITE OWNED [sic].
GET over yourself and get on with it!
I canât quote from Clueless right now. Iâm sorry guys, I canât.
[A/N: Black Entertainment Television was first founded by Robert L. Johnson in 1980. Johnson, who sold BET to Viacom in 2001 for $3 billion, became the first black American billionaire after the sale.]
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