Nina Parker On That Oscar Moment: ‘Stacey Dash Would Do Anything For A Check’

On Monday’s Access Hollywood
Live, commentator Nina Parker discussed the memorable moment
when Oscars host Chris Rock brought Stacey Dash onto the stage for a cameo.

According to Parker, the lackluster
response that followed was because many simply didn’t get the joke.

“It was a little too insider, because it was very much
a Twitter thing,” she told Billy Bush and Kit
Hoover. 

“Stacey Dash went [on Fox News and
said] that she felt there should be no Black History
Month,” she explained, referencing the
“Clueless” actress and Fox News contributor’s appearance on
“Fox & Friends” in January, during
which she called the #OscarsSoWhite controversy “ludicrous” and
suggested that Black History Month be eliminated.

 The Access Hollywood Live panel said
that Dash’s appearance in
the Oscars bit may have come across as
awkward because many in the audience that night (along
with TV viewers) recognized Dash only from “Clueless”
and not from Fox News.

 When asked for the personal opinions regarding Dash, Parker
didn’t hold back.

 “I do not like her, I don’t like her policies. I
think she’s ridiculous,” she said.

 Noting that Morgan Freeman also made
references in a past interview to eliminate Black History Month, Parker said the actor was looking to make a point that black
history should be considered part of all American
history with no distinction between the two.

Dash’s agenda, Parker added, is
different.

 Parker went on to point out
during the discussion that Dash was once paid by BET for projects in the past,
which makes her stance on eliminating Black History Month so
controversial. Parker also offered her own strong opinion of why Dash may
be courting both sides of the diversity issue.

“Stacey Dash will do anything for a check, so she
does not have a moral ground for any standing,” she said. “If BET
gave her enough money, she would leave Fox News and go there [to BET], and be
the first one on Black History Month tap dancing from the first to the 28th.”