{"id":71617,"date":"2016-02-29T02:29:46","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=71617"},"modified":"2016-02-29T02:29:46","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:29:46","slug":"stacey-dash-explains-her-odd-oscars-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/02\/29\/stacey-dash-explains-her-odd-oscars-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Dash explains her odd Oscars moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71618\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-71618\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71618\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey Dash confuses audience at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy of The Oscars)\" width=\"2058\" height=\"3092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS.jpg 2058w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS-768x1154.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/STACEY-DASH-OSCARS-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2058px) 100vw, 2058px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacey Dash confuses audience at the 88th Annual Academy Awards. (Photo courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/oscar.go.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Oscars<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Actress and Fox News personality Stacey Dash says she wants to bring a different kind of diversity to Hollywood\u2014and that&#8217;s why she participated in one of the oddest Oscar moments.<\/p>\n<p>The former &#8220;Clueless&#8221; actress has attracted attention lately for her conservative viewpoints, including suggesting on Fox that there should not be a Black History Month. Dash, who is black, also spoke out against people complaining that the Oscars didn&#8217;t reflect diversity.<\/p>\n<p>She was jokingly introduced by host Chris Rock as director of the Oscar&#8217;s minority outreach program. Dash strode onstage to say &#8220;I cannot wait to help my people out. Happy Black History Month!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The joke fell flat, perhaps because many people in the audience didn&#8217;t understand the reference.<\/p>\n<p>Dash explained online why she did it, saying ideological diversity is much harder to achieve in Hollywood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and Fox News personality Stacey Dash says she wants to bring a different kind of diversity to Hollywood\u2014and that&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":71618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-71617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-original","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}