When asked about Dash’s comments at the Sundance Film Festival premiere of “The Birth of a Nation” on Monday, Union first replied, “Who’s that? Who’s Stacey Dash? Is she like related to Dame Dash? Was she on Roc-A-Fella (Records)?“ Union said the BET Awards remain necessary because of the lack of diversity in mainstream awards. “The more that we focus on inclusion and a true representation of this country, I think that crazy lady will have less to say,” Union said of Dash.
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Union has a TV series on BET called “Being Mary Jane.”ĭash’s comments stemmed from a “Fox & Friends” interview last week when she was asked about the lack of black nominees for Academy Awards. The former “Clueless” star said people need to make up their minds between segregation and integration, “and if we don’t want segregation, then we need to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the (NAACP) Image Awards, where you’re only rewarded if you’re black.”ĭash then wrote on her website that BET lies to American blacks by telling them the rest of America is racist. The video of Dash's remarks soon went viral, causing people like Whoopi Goldberg, Marlon Wayans, Roland Martin and even her own family member, Dame Dash, to weigh in on the topic. “And they’re absolutely mortified that someone like me - an independent-thinking black woman - dares call their bluff.”īANGKOK: A Myanmar beauty queen who spoke out against the military coup in her homeland appealed Friday for help after being refused entry to Thailand by immigration officials.
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Thaw Nandar Aung, better known by her professional moniker Han Lay, has been held at Bangkok’s main international airport since Thursday after arriving on a flight from Vietnam. Gabrielle Union is a baaad woman - she just fired back at Stacey Dash and took down Ronda Rousey as collateral damage in her feud with Dash. GABRIELLE UNION ON STACEY DASH PROFESSIONAL She made headlines in March 2021 when she urged the world to “save” the people of Myanmar from the military, which had seized power a month earlier. Thai immigration officials said she was denied entry to the kingdom because of a problem with her passport. In a post on her verified Facebook page on Friday, Han Lay said she feared the Myanmar police would come and get her at the airport. “I request to Thai authority from here please help for me,” she wrote in English, adding that she had contacted the UN refugee agency.Ī Thai official told AFP that Myanmar police had not spoken to her and said it was up to her to decide where to fly to from Bangkok.
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