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Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates recently shared his thoughts on the controversy actress Stacey Dash sparked by calling for an end to pro-Black networks like BET.
In Gates’ opinion, realness and fakeness weighs heavier than race.
“I agree with her because it’s only two types of people. Real people and fake people. It’s no such thing as color in my realm. It’s no such thing. Cause I know some people of other ethnicities that’s solid…I thought that God said you supposed to love all people…Everybody came a long way. Go overseas. They don’t have welfare overseas. If you poor, you poor. So, I don’t be trying to hear all that ‘everybody came a long way’ talk…I had my a** kicked by the police. Beat the f*ck up. It was the way I was conducting myself.” (Money Stacks Matt)
Approached recently for her thoughts on Dash’s remarks, actress Gabrielle Union appeared to throw some shade at the 49-year-old diva.
Who’s Stacey Dash? Is she like related to Dame Dash? Was she on Roc A Fella?” I heard of a crazy lady once, maybe last week. But I don’t know what her name is. It’s like why is there a need for Birth of a Nation and why is there a Country Music Awards – if you don’t see yourself reflected in mainstream awards, you tend to create your own.” (AP)
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Recently, hip-hop star Waka Flocka Flame reacted to Stacey’s now-infamous comments.
“I could say Stacey Dash wrong and she right for how she said it, she couldn’t break down fully what she was trying to explain. But honestly, I always felt like that. Like, why the f*ck we got BET? BET’s for black people and MTV’s for white people? Think about it. Why the f*ck we got Black History Month only in February? How can the people that took our history give us our history for one month? Just think about it. That’s the sh*t I’d be saying though. It is what it is.” (WSHH)
Stacey’s celebrity cousin Damon “Dame” Dash gave his thoughts on her issues with BET a few days ago.
“I think she was saying, you can’t be, ‘Yo BET we have our own Black stuff that we don’t invite White people to and then get mad when White people don’t invite us to their stuff.’ That’s how I looked at it. But then I was just like, ‘She didn’t have to say it like that or there or get paid to say it.’ I would have way preferred her, if she has that opinion, to say it on BET or have a conversation with someone Black when she was saying that and let someone Black have a conversation back with her as opposed to some White man nodding his head.” (Dr. Boyce Watkins)
