BET fires back after Stacey Dash advocates getting rid of Black History Month, the BET Awards

Stacey Dash.
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Method actress Stacey Dash of Clueless fame announced on Wednesday it's "ludicrous" to protest the Academy Awards over this year's acting nominees all being white.

"We have to make up our minds," the Fox News contributor said on Fox & Friends. "Either we want to have segregation or integration, and if we don't want segregation, then we have to get rid of channels like BET and the BET Awards and the Image Awards, where you're only awarded if you're black. If it were the other way around, we would be up in arms." She also said that since there isn't a "White History Month," then there "shouldn't be a Black History Month. We're Americans, period. That's it."

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.