While her appearance at the Oscars may have led to an awkward silence from the crowd, Stacey Dash has learnt that those on Twitter tend not to stay so quiet.
Fresh from her appearance at the Academy Awards on Sunday evening, Dash thought she’d see how her surprise appearance was received on social media - which may have been a mistake.
The Clueless actress was introduced on stage during the 88th Academy Awards by host Chris Rock as the apparent “new director of the minority outreach programme” for the Oscars, which drew a stunned response from the audience.
Dash is a regular contributor to Fox News and recently labelled the boycott of the Oscars over the lack of diversity in this year’s nominations as “ludicrous”. The #OscarsSoWhite controversy had engulfed this year’s awards after not a single non-black actor was nominated for the second year running.
After making her thoughts known on the boycott, Dash drew backlash for further comments where she voiced her disagreement on the need for a Black History Month, which has been celebrated this February, and the BET (Black Entertainment Television) music channel.
After the ceremony she shared in a Jimmy Kimmel inspired video where she read “mean tweets” about herself to camera on her blog.
In the video, Dash acknowledged she got “no applause, no boos, nothing” after walking out on stage and said she chose to do so because Rock, who she “loves and supports”, asked her to and she also thinks she’d “be the perfect person” to be head of diversity at the Oscars.
Memorable tweets read out by Dash include: “| was hoping there was a trap door on stage and @REALStaceyDash would fall through”, “You looked foolish and sounded dumb” and “You sucked on the Oscars like you do on Fox News”.
After reading out the tweets, Dash made her case once more, saying: “Everything I do is because I believe in it and I feel like we are all equal, ok. I do not feel inferior, nor do I feel superior. You should stop feeling that way too, that’s my suggestion. And I’m very happy about what I did and I’m proud of it.”
The Dash segment was just one of many by Rock which referred to the controversy and followed an opening monologue which was widely praised by critics and on social media.
