Gabrielle Union calls Stacey Dash a 'crazy lady' for her Oscars comments

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Actress Gabrielle Union has become the latest critic of Stacey Dash. In a recent interview, Union called her "a crazy lady."

"Who's that? Who's Stacey Dash?" Union said at first, when the Associated Press asked the actress, who was at the Sundance Film Festival Monday, about Dash's recent controversial remarks regarding the Oscars. "Is she like, related to Dame Dash? Was she on Roc-A-Fella?"

Dash, an actress and Fox News contributor who is the cousin of Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder Damon "Dame" Dash, recently called a proposed boycott of the Academy Awards "ludicrous," and has also said BET and Black History Month should not exist.

Union, 43, went on to say she "heard of a crazy lady, once, maybe last week. I don't know what her name is." 

On Jan. 20, Dash, known for her role in the 1995 movie "Clueless," made an appearance on "Fox & Friends" to talk about a call for a boycott of the 2016 Oscars because of a lack of diversity in the nominations. But she went beyond the Oscars in her remarks. 

"I think it's ludicrous, because we have to make up our minds," said Dash, 49, an alumna of Paramus High School. "Either we want to have segregation or integration. And if we don't want segregation then we need 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. It's a double standard."

Dash also said she believed there should not be a Black History Month. "We're Americans, period," she said. "That's it." 

Union plays a slave in "The Birth of a Nation," a film that just made Sundance history for a $17.5 million deal with Fox Searchlight. The movie follows Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in 1831. She mentioned the film when firing back at Dash's comments. 

"It's like why there's a need for 'Birth of a Nation' and why there's a need for the Country Music Awards and the ALMA Awards," she said. "If you don't see yourself reflected in mainstream awards, you tend to create your own. And until there's no longer a need for that, I celebrate the ALMAs the same way I celebrate the Country Music Awards and the same way I celebrate the BET Awards and the Image Awards." 

Union continued: 

"The more that we focus on inclusion and a true representation of this country, I think that crazy lady will have less to say." 

Whoopi Goldberg previously addressed Dash's comments on "The View."

"We are all Americans, but we are not all treated like Americans and one of the reasons that there is a BET is because networks wouldn't take a lot of the shows that have an all-black cast," she said. 

Damon Dash recently said that he believes his cousin is being paid to make sensationalist comments on Fox.

But on her blog, Stacey Dash addressed the same claim. 

"This I will tell you is not true," she wrote. "Trust me, Fox does not always like what I have to say." Dash also wrote that she was expressing a viewpoint shared by Morgan Freeman, and maintained she deserves an apology from those who have been critical of her comments. 

"What's that you say?" Dash said. "You didn't realize that Morgan Freeman agrees with me that having a Black History Month is actually racist and a part of the problem in healing race relations in America?" She included video of an appearance Freeman made on "60 Minutes." 

"You're going to relegate my history to a month?" Freeman tells journalist Mike Wallace in the clip.

On Twitter, Union trended for her "Who's Stacey Dash?" comments. Some tweets used the hashtag #WhoIsStaceyDash.

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