Fox News contributor Stacey Dash appeared Sunday at the 88th Academy Awards as the director of “minority outreach,” part of a bizarre joke about the Oscars’ lack of diversity.
After comedian Chris Rock named Dash the “new director” of the Academy’s “minority outreach program,” Dash, a regular “Outnumbered” guest, made a brief cameo on stage.
“I cannot wait to help my people out,” Dash told a confused audience at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles. “Happy Black History Month!”
The irony of Dash’s appearance wasn’t lost. In January, she called for ending Black History Month because it promotes “segregation.” She also said Black Entertainment Television “lies to American black people.”
Dash explained her appearance in blog post on Sunday.
“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 [sic] than a cookie cutter black who thinks – and votes – just like all my friends,” Dash wrote.
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The joke was on Stacey Dash.
It wasn’t ‘bizarre’, it was stupid. That she was the butt of the joke and somehow didn’t ‘realize’ it makes it sad and Ms. Dash clueless.
She has no clue she was the joke - not even the butt of the joke, the actual joke. Was this cruel? Yes. Do I feel sorry for her? Absolutely not.
This stunt just confirmed the usual freak show of the yearly Oscar scam.