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History was made at the Miss America pageant

 

For the first time since Vanessa Williams and Suzette Charles were the last two finalists standing (2 African Americans) Nina Davuluri and Crystal Lee were the last two finalists standing as well-this time, 2 Asian Americans. All the white women were rejected.  Like how when President Obama was elected and then re-elected, the racist white folks were not having it.

 

News agencies cited tweets which misidentified her as Muslim or Arab and associated her with terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda, the say way they accuse the President of being a muslim terrorist.

 

 

She's of Indian descent. Born and raised in the United States.

 

She was my choice from the beginning. This woman is no dummy-she attended the University of Michigan  and has won several scholastic honors including the Dean's List, Michigan Merit Award, and National Honor Society Award. 

 She graduated with a degree in Brain Behavior and Cognitive Science.

 

Something else she has in common with Vanessa Williams- she was the second Miss Syracuse to win the competition after Vanessa Williams in 1983

 

 

On today,

 in 1984,

Vanessa Williams, the very first Black woman to be crowned Miss America, had to  relinquish her crown because of questionable ( read s & m ) photographs to Suzette Charles, who was the runner up.

Earlier that year,the two judged the  most beautiful, most qualified candidates for the crown, were black women. Both were light-skinned, but black women, nevertheless. Never before has this ever occurred in the history of the pageant.

And it hasn't happened since. And will probably never happen again.

We all know that Vanessa Williams didn't shrivel up and die, fading into oblivion. She went on to record, star in movies, Broadway and television, and is very well respected in Hollywood circles. ABC is even working on a televison project following the series finale of Desperate Housewives.

  By the way, whatever happened to Suzette Charles?