THE MOST AWKWARD MOMENT OF THE OSCARS WAS DEFINITELY ONE STACY
DASH WAS CAUGHT UP ON STAGE TO MAKE A BRIEF COMMENT ABOUT BLACK
HISTORY MONTH.
THIS IS RELEVANT BECAUSE SHE IS ONE OF THE ONLY BLACK
CONSERVATIVES WHO HAVE COME OUT, SPOKEN TO FOX NEWS, AND LET
THEM KNOW THAT SHE THINKS BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS A BUNCH OF
BULL.
TAKE A LOOK AT THIS VIDEO.
>> WE HAVE TO MAKE UP OUR MINDS, EITHER WE WANT TO HAVE
SEGREGATION OR IF ñ INTEGRATION.
IF WE DON'T WANT SEGREGATION THE MEDIA GET RID OF CHANNELS
LIKE PET, AND THE PET AWARDS, AND THE IMAGE AWARDS, WHERE
YOU ARE ONLY AWARDED IF YOU ARE BLACK.
IF IT WERE THE OTHER WAY AROUND, WE WOULD BE UP IN ARMS.
IT IS A DOUBLE STANDARD.
>> YOU ARE SAYING THERE SHOULD NOT BE A PEG CHANNEL?
>> I DON'T THINK SO, NO.
JUST LIKE THERE SHOULD NOT BE A BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
WE ARE AMERICANS, PERIOD.
>> YOU ARE SAYING THIS IS NOT THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH
BECAUSE THERE IS NO WHITE HISTORY MONTH?
>> EXACTLY.
>> IS SO WONDERFULLY APPROPRIATE THAT SHE STARRED IN A MOVIE
CALLED CLUELESS.
EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE SHE IS DESCRIBED AS A CLUELESS STAR.
BINGO, THAT IS IT.
STACY, HERE'S WHAT YOU APPARENTLY CANNOT UNDERSTAND.
THERE IS A POWER DYNAMIC IN PLAY.
WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN CHARGE IN THIS COUNTRY FOR A LONG
TIME, SO WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT WHITE POWER, THAT IS A
HISTORY, IT IS NOT A GOOD HISTORY.
WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT BLACK POWER, THAT IS THE LITTLE GUY
TRYING TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE AND EQUAL RIGHTS.
IT DOES NOT MEAN ñ BLACK POWER DOES NOT MEAN, NOW BLACKS
WILL GET TO DOMINATE WHITES.
IT MEANS, CAN YOU STOP SHOOTING US?
BACK IN THE DAY IT MEANT, CAN YOU STOP LYNCHING US?
THESE ARE FAIR REQUESTS.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH EXISTS BECAUSE BLACKS ARE A
MINORITY IN THIS COUNTRY.
IF THEY HELD POWER, AND THEY DID BLACK HISTORY MONTH, THAT
WOULD BE DEEPLY PROBLEMATIC.
THAT TAKES A TINY BIT OF SOPHISTICATION TO
UNDERSTAND THAT.
>> IS BOTH RACES WERE ON AN EQUAL PLAYING FIELD RIGHT NOW,
AND THEY HAD COMPLETE EQUALITY, AND WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO
WHEN IT COMES TO THAT, THEN MAYBE HER STATEMENT ABOUT HAVING
AWARDS THAT ARE SEGREGATED BASED ON WORDS DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, BUT
WE'RE NOT THERE.
OF COURSE SHE GOT A LOT OF BACKLASH FOR THAT STATEMENT, SO
IT WAS WEIRD WHEN CHRIS ROCK ALL OF A SUDDEN ANNOUNCES THAT
STACEY
DASH IS GOING TO COME OUT AND MAKE A STATEMENT.
WE CAN'T SHOW YOU THE VIDEO, BUT THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS.
SHE COMES OUT AND SAYS IT AWKWARDLY, "I CAN'T WAIT TO
HELP MY PEOPLE OUT, HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH."
AND THEN SHE LEAVES, AND IT SOUNDS SARCASTIC, AND YOU
DON'T KNOW HOW SINCERE IT IS.
ANIMATOR ON CHRIS ROCK REFERS TO HER AS THE LEADER OF THE
SOCIAL OUTREACH PROGRAM.
WHAT WAS THE POINT OF THAT?
I HAVE NO IDEA, BUT IT WAS A STRANGE.
>> AS A JOKE THAT IS IN THE OLD
WORDS OF HERMAN CAIN, TWO LAYERS
DEEP.
IT GETS LOST.
AN OLD FRIEND, BEN MANKIEWICZ, TALK ME, KEEP JOKES ONE
LAYER DEEP.
IN THIS CASE, I THINK THEY ARE BEING SARCASTIC AND SAYING, HEY,
WE ARE DOING MINORITY OUTREACH NOT TO BLACKS, BUT TO THE
CONSERVATIVES, BY BRINGING STACEY DASH OUT, BECAUSE
SHE IS A BLACK PERSON WHO IS AGAINST BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
THAT SHE COMES OUT AND MAKES THAT SMALL STATEMENT, LEAVES
AND THAT IS THEIR MINORITY OUTREACH, THE CONSERVATIVES.
BUT THAT IS WAY TOO DEEP, THAT TAKE SEVERAL HOOPS TO JUMP
THROUGH, AND IT'S GETTING IT LET
THEM KNOW WHO STACEY DASH IS.
RIGHT THERE, YOU JUST LOST NINETY PERCENT OF AMERICA.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHO SHE IS.
SHE KEEPS APPEARING ON FOX NEWS BECAUSE FOXNEWS LIKES HER.
SHE IS A CONVENIENT TOOL FOR THEM.
THIS IS THE PART OF THE OSCARS I DID NOT ENJOY, NOT ONLY BECAUSE
IT WASN'T REMOTELY FUNNY, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT WENT OVER THE
HEAD OF EVERYBODY, BUT THE FUNNY THING IS, THE IRONIC EXCEPTION
IS ME, I UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY WERE GOING FOR, BECAUSE I AM
DEEPLY ENGAGED IN POLITICS, AND I'M ONE OF THE FEW PEOPLE WHO
KNOWS STACEY DASH, BUT ON TOP OF THAT, THAT IS A DIG TOO FAR.
A LOT OF MOMENTS IN CHRIS ROCK STANDUP WHERE HE WENT AFTER
BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE CRITICIZING THE ACTORS, DID
A LOT OF MOMENTS WHERE HE WENT AFTER WHITE PEOPLE, I
SUPPORT HIM ON ALL OF THAT.
BUT THERE IS NO NEED TO BRING STACEY DASH IN HERE AND SAY,
THERE SHOULD NOT BE BLACK HISTORY MONTH, BUT WE'RE KIND OF
KIDDING.
DON'T EMPOWER THIS TOOL.
>> IT IS INTERESTING BECAUSE SHE FELT LIKE SHE WAS BEING
EMPOWERED.
DOES NOT SEEM THAT SHE REALIZED THE JOKE WAS ON HER.
WHEN SHE CAME OUT, YOU SHOULD HAVE HEARD THE AUDIENCE.
THERE WERE A FEW PEOPLE SLOWLY CLAPPING, IS SHE HERE?
IT SOUNDED LIKE THERE MIGHT HAVE EVEN BEEN A FEW BOOS.
IT WAS A
WEIRD AUDIENCE REACTION, AND AFTER SHE MADE HER STATEMENT
PEOPLE WERE QUIET FOR AT LEAST A
SECOND, AND THEN THEY WERE LIKE ñ
>> THEY DID NOT GET IT.
>> THEY HAD NO IDEA.
>> THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO GOT IT WERE THE ONES WHO WERE OUTRAGED.
>> AFTERWARDS SHE TWEETED ABOUT IT, SAYING THAT WE NEED TO STOP
COMPLAINING ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE DISCRIMINATING AGAINST US.
SHE WENT BACK AND FORTH WITH CHRIS ROCK.
HERE IS A PICTURE, NEW ACADEMY DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY OUTREACH.
BECAUSE I DID NOT LIKE ANY PART OF THIS.
SAD DAY.
I WILL DO ONE LAST DIG ON CONSERVATIVES.
THEY WILL BE MAD, THEY KNOW THAT LIBERALS KEPT SAYING THINGS
THROUGHOUT THE EVENT, CLIMATE CHANGE AND RAISED, STUFF
LIKE THAT ñ
>> THEY ALL TALK LIKE THAT TOO.
>> AND THEY CALLED CONSERVATIVES A MINORITY AND DID MINORITY
OUTREACH.
WELL THEN WHY DON'T YOU GO BE ENTERTAINING AND MAKE IT TO
THE OSCARS.
THEY LOVE TO CRY ABOUT, WELL, IF YOU WERE SMARTER, MORE
INTERESTING, MORE CREATIVE, MORE
SUCCESSFUL.
YOUR TOP CELEBRITIES ARE PEOPLE LIKE TED NUGENT, WHO IS
MOSTLY FAMOUS FOR CRAPPING HIMSELF.