There’s something very troubling about Stacey Dash. Even though most of us remember her from Clueless, her fraudulent ass has been parading around our television trying to take advantage of the African-American eyeballs that lauded her beauty despite her acting being trash.
Remember Mo’ Money? How about Paper Soldiers or Gang Of Roses or that spread you did in a magazine that celebrated sistas with melanin, KING? I wonder how you felt when you were cast as Richard Pryor’s daughter in 1988’s Moving? Spending time with someone who was as vocal about Black issues as Pryor certainly had to be jarring. But I guess she hated every moment of it. All of those opportunities to be in films with predominantly Black casts because she is Black and not because she’s an exceptional actress. But I suppose she doesn’t see the dilemma here.
Something smells fishy about all this. Her conservative card is trumped up considerably since joining FOX News as a token pundit on the network. If it weren’t for being the pretty brown skin girl with green eyes on Clueless, you’d be hard pressed to recall anything memorable Dash has ever done. But, here she is, being the token black girl who can go on FOX News and defend the Oscar’s for overlooking some exceptional Black nominees. Who else on Fox can say that Black History Month should be abolished and get away with it?
Meanwhile, a fragment of a culture that he has respectfully embraced often shuns Macklemore. He can’t control what color he was when he came out of his mother’s womb, but he has always been respectful of Hip-Hop’s origins and African-American culture without trying to be an African-American himself. However, he gets wrongfully blamed for beating Kendrick Lamar at the 2014 Grammys and treated as if he asked for white privilege to work in his favor. And for those that say he is making songs like these as a reaction, pay attention. There’s a reason why the song is called “White Privilege II.” The first “White Privilege” dropped in 2005 when nobody gave a rat’s ass about Macklemore. For anyone to suggest he’s doing this for publicity is ridiculous.
Ultimately, it’s a fair trade. Dash doesn’t deserve a seat at the table anymore. Her take on diversity at the Academy Awards is just a microcosm of what’s to come. As for Macklemore, his efforts to address inequality should be appreciated. I’d rather go to war with Macklemore than Stacey Dash any day of the week.
Any.
Day.
Of.
The.
Week.
You can’t control what you look like when you are born but you can control who you are while you’re alive.
