Stacey Dash Calls Jesse Williams a ‘Hollywood Plantation Slave,’ Says His Powerful BET Speech Was an ‘Attack on White People’
Stacey Dash is
definitely not impressed with Jesse Williams’ headline-making speech on racism
and inequality at the BET Awards on Sunday.
In a blog post on
Wednesday, the 49-year-old always outspoken actress bashed Williams’ speech,
calling the entire BET network racist.
“I’ve said it before
and I’ll say it again: BET is keeping racism and segregation alive and this
past Sunday’s awards show proves it,” Dash writes. “Particularly the speech
given by Grey’s Anatomy star Jesse Williams, whose tirade after receiving the
2016 BET Humanitarian Award for his black activism was nothing short of an
attack on white people.”
“You’ve just seen the
perfect example of a HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!” Dash continues. “Sorry, Mr.
Williams. But the fact that you were standing on that stage at THOSE awards
tells people you really don’t know what your [sic] talking about. Just spewing
hate and anger.”
Dash took issue with
the 34-year-old actor’s words criticizing those speaking out against the Black
Lives Matter movement.
“The burden of the
brutalized is not to comfort the bystander. That’s not our job, all right? Stop
with all that,” Williams said on Sunday. “If you have a critique for the
resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of
critique of our oppression. If you have no interest – if you have no interest
in equal rights for black people, then do not make suggestions to those who do.
Sit down.”
“You my man are just
like everyone else hustling to get money,” Dash responds. “But your cognitive
dissidents has you getting it from THAT BYSTANDER whom YOU DON’T NEED. Yes.
BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION is WHITE OWNED.”
Dash also responded to
Williams’ words on cultural appropriation.
“We’ve been floating
this country on credit for centuries, yo, and we’re done watching and waiting
while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people
out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our
entertainment like oil, black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations,
then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes
before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit,” Williams said. “The
thing is, though, just because we’re magic doesn’t mean we’re not real.”
The Clueless actress
says it’s actually Williams who’s “ghetto-izing” black culture.
“That chip on the
shoulders of people like you will weigh you down and keep you from flying
free,” Dash writes. “But true freedom is never free. You have to know how to
fly. If anyone is making you feel this way it’s you. Living in a psychological
prison of your own making. If anyone is GHETTO-IZING anyone, it’s people like
you letting the BETs and other media outlets portray us in stereotypes.”
“GET over yourself and
get on with it!” she adds.
ET spoke to Williams
about his politically-charged speech at the BET Awards on Sunday, and the
father of two said he was delivering a message on behalf of those who need to
be heard.
“I’m here for all the
incredible protestors, activists, attorneys, organizers that are sacrificing
[an] incredibly great deal to be heard and get access to equal rights and
justice in this country,” Williams said. “[The BET Awards] recognizing me is
really recognizing them in my view, and I think that means that we’re getting
traction.”
After his speech,
actor Samuel L. Jackson commended Williams while accepting the BET Lifetime
Achievement Award.
“Jesse’s the closest
thing I’ve heard to a 1960s activist,” Jackson marveled. “That brother is
right, and he is true.”
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