The 'View' ladies don't agree with Dash who thinks that channels like BET and the BET Awards are practice of racial segregation.
- Jan 22, 2016
AceShowbiz - "The View" hosts once again tackled racial issue on Thursday, January 21, but this time they switched the attention to Stacey Dash's comment. The ladies couldn't agree with the actress who thinks there should be no BET and Black History Month.
"I think it's the height of hypocrisy that Stacey Dash would say that there should be no BET when she had a recurring role on the BET show, 'The Game'," guest host Sunny Hostin said. She added, "I just think it's incredible that she would give up whatever values she had in the first place to pander to an audience that is sort of angry and scared of people that don't look like them. She is giving them reasons to continue to be angry and scared and she's doing it for the dollar."
While co-host Paula Faris didn't disagree with Hostin, she questioned if channels like BET and the celebration of Black History Month were "subconsciously" dividing Americans. Whoopi Goldberg asked Faris how much she knew about black history before she gave her opinion on the matter, "The thing is, it's not taught. Asian history is not taught in school. As it pertains to America - American history holds all of us, and she's right in that. Yes, we are all Americans, but we are not all treated like Americans."
Co-host Sarah Haines, meanwhile, summed up the sentiments of black actors, "If I turned on the TV and didn't see any character or person that I resonate with - if I were just a white person sitting at home and everything was black, if the roles were reversed, I would look for people I could relate to."
Dash caused a debate after saying in an interview on "Fox & Friends", "We have to make up our minds. Either we want to have segregation or integration. 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 are only awarded if you are black. If it were the other way around we would be up in arms. It's a double standard. Just like there shouldn't be a Black History Month. You know, we're Americans, period. That's it."
