With an open letter shared through a blog on Christian website Patheos.com, Hollywood conservative Stacey Dash laid out a reactionary critique of Jesse Williams' speech at Sunday's BET Awards, on Wednesday [June 29]. In it, Dash breaks the full transcript into sections, and intercedes between each as she spins Jesse's address to Black America into "an attack on white people." She would also target Williams personally all the while continuing her long standing crusade to defame the BET network.


"Sorry, Mr Williams. But the fact that you were standing on that stage at THOSE awards tells people you really don’t know what [you're] talking about. Just spewing hate and anger. Because you my man are just like everyone else hustling to get money," Dash wrote. "But your cognitive dissidents has you getting it from THAT BYSTANDER whom YOU DONT NEED. Yes. BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION is WHITE OWNED. GET over yourself and get on with it!"

Dash began the letter by charging BET with perpetuating racism and slavery and ended it with reiterating that notion, bunching the network and Williams himself together with a media which she blasts for minimizing Black people to stereotypes. At one point in her rebuke Dash actually seemed to mirror Williams' thoughts on striving for money and brand status, presenting the fact that the Grey's Anatomy actor/activist was evoking slavery before a room full of high-end brand clad entertainers. But rather than validate it as a point of agreement she utilized his words as a spring board to characterize Williams as a prime example of what she deemed a "HOLLYWOOD plantation slave!"

While Dash deals in large part with the actual speech and the dynamics in the room and among Black viewers, she also reaches outside of the ceremony and into the world of social media to highlight Justin Timberlake as an ironic victim of Williams naming cultural appropriation. Her reference was to the backlash Timberlake would receive over his exchange with commenters on Twitter, after giving praise to Williams' platform. She raised Justin's point of contention while accusing Williams of stirring a disharmony she phrased as "straight out of the Black Lives Matter playbook," after connoting that in addressing police brutality Williams suggested that police "prefer" killing innocent Black children over white people.

With the recent release of her memoir "There Goes My Social Life: From Clueless to Conservative," Dash has stepped up her rhetoric against the left. The Fox News contributor was last associated with awards shows back in February, when she mocked her assertion that the nation ban Black History Month with a cameo appearance during one of Chris Rock's #OscarsSoWhite Academy Awards show sketches. Considering her track record, her Patheos.com letter flies in the face of Jesse Williams' position stating, "If you have a critique for the resistance, for our resistance, then you better have an established record of critique of our oppression."

Source: patheos.com