Stacey Dash Responds to Twitter Backlash for Supporting Mitt Romney on “Piers Morgan Tonight”
On Tuesday evening, actress Stacey Dash appeared on “Piers Morgan Tonight” for a live interview which proved to be very interesting and revealing.
Dash has been on many headlines since she took to social media, using Twitter to support and endorse Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Dash is best known for playing the role of Dionne in the 1995 sitcom, “Clueless”. More recently, Dash played the role of Valerie “Val” Stokes on VH1′s “Single Ladies”.
While on “Piers Morgan Tonight”, the actress talked about why she was endorsing Mitt Romney:
“I would say because of the state of the country, and I want the next four years to be different. I believe him…I watched him, the Governor and his wife, on ‘Meet The Press.’…They spoke to me, they seemed authentic and genuine.”
After endorsing Romney on Twitter, the 46 year old actress received a lot of negative feedback with a lot of the negative feedback focusing on her race and gender.
She told Piers Morgan,
“The fury, I really don’t understand the fury. I don’t understand it. I don’t get it…I was shocked, saddened. Not angry. Saddened and really shocked. But you know what, you can’t expect everyone to agree with you.”
A lot of the negative feedback that Dash got was based on her being African American as well as being a female. Considering that she is African American, many of her followers on Twitter accused her of being a “sell out” for not supporting President Obama. Also, because President Obama has taken a stand for women in this election, some of Dash’s women followers were also critical of her supporting Romney and not Obama.
Stacey, I’m voting Obama-Biden because:
• Lowered taxes for 20 million African Americans through the payroll tax cut, putting $800 back in the pocket of the typical African-American working family.
• Invested $3.4 billion in African American-owned businesses.
• Passed the Affordable Care Act, ending insurance company abuses and expanding access to preventive care, which will reduce health disparities for 41 million African Americans.
• Supported the early learning programs Head Start and Early Head Start, to reach an additional 64,000 children and their families.
• Doubled funding for Pell Grants, increasing the number of recipients and putting a college education within reach for an additional 200,000 African-American students over the next decade.
• Invested $2.55 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and other minority-serving institutions.
I support Stacey Dash’s First Amendment Right of Free Speech. I’m glad to know her position and preference in politics. Now I understand that the character she played in the movie “Clueless” was actually Stacey Dash and not a “Character.” She really is Clueless. Maybe President Obama forgot to invite her to the party like Cornell West, so she’s mad at him now. She did say that she thought that the governor and his wife were “genuine. Now if that is true, then she obviously has not been paying any attention, because even Stevie Wonder can see that isn’t the case.
Stacey Dash, Mitt Romney is anything but Genuine.
Reggie Wade, your points are well stated!
Stacy Dash has her opinions just like everyone else: Now wait, that doesn’t mean I am saying she’s wrong, and I am not saying everyone that’s angry with her is right; It is what it is,so just leave the woman alone.
Just vote for who you want,and she will vote for who she wants.
She isn’t just a black woman she is also half Mexican.
But who are we to say who’s wrong or right ?
Did anyone b*m rush you about supporting OBAMA?
Personally I vote for GOD, so I guess someone will attack me, BRING IT ON !l:My point: Opinion is an opinion, AMERICA freedom of beliefs/speech.
Everyone’s F**** up in the head, We go toooo far with nonsense.
I believe in voting for a person who is best for our all around affairs, and I don’t have any respect for a person that does not respect the Commander in Chief regardless to whether he or she is black or white, blue yellow green or polka dot, it just isn’t good training, and if he doesn’t have that kind of ediquette/respect for the Commander and Chief, I know that he doesn’t have any for the elderly like me. How can we follow the leader if the leader doesn’t know how to lead. Everyon have their own reasons for doing what they do and I don’t think it is anyones business as to why or what I decide to do and I am the one that’s doing it. and paying for it. You know, people have a tendency to think that just because you don’t think or react like they think that you should react, then you are being different. Well, you are. Who want to be like everybody else and we are all unique individuals. Be unique. whether I like it or not, it’s your right to be who you are too. Be that way, it’s all right.