Posted on 08/20/2019 11:10:18 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
ST. CROIX — Six of the ten contestants who participated in Sunday evening’s Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands were women from outside the USVI, most with no known ties to the territory and some of whom had participated in other pageants just months prior. The competition, held in a banquet room at the Divi Carina Bay Casino, was the qualifying event whose winner will represent the U.S. Virgin Islands on the world’s biggest and most prominent pageantry stage: Miss Universe.
But what was a relatively engaged audience turned somewhat raucous when not one of the four local young women who represented their home, the USVI, was chosen by the judges — non of whom were local — as part of the top five finalists. The mood in the room went from cheerful to cheerless, and when the last of the top 5 was called, dismay gripped the crowd and things started to get unruly.
As the host was preparing to announce the winner, calling the would-be victor your Miss Universe U.S. Virgin Islands, a voice yelled out from the audience, "the judges’ Miss Universe [U.S. Virgin Islands]."
The displeasure among Virgin Islanders was rife. Inside and outside the banquet room, they spoke of the pageant’s results as a disgrace to the territory, with some calling the event fraudulent. One particular scene cut deep among some locals: as the top five finalists were called forward, the local girls remained at the back. A local individual told the Consortium that the scene brought her back to a grisly moment of her youth when she was raped.
Later, a commotion broke out between the event’s official photographer and some attendees.
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LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not PR-realted, but close to PR.
FYI - more outrageous beauty pageant news.
What??!
Why did this even get into the story? How is it related?
The contestants should have to be virgins from the Virgin Island.
The obvious question is, were any of them actually Virgins?
Outrageous, no? I couldn’t believe it when I read this.
at a beauty contest?
There are rules people!
Oh please honey child.
Not that this is right but that is an overstatement in the extreme.
If this was so important to the locals - and I really don’t blame them for wanting a local woman to win - why wasn’t there a requirement that the contestants must be residents of the Virgin Islands?
Partly also a race thing - The actual Virgin Islander contestants were black-mulato, as is the actual population.
The finalists weren’t black.
I sympathize with the complaints of the VI people. They should have had one of their own there.
I think we need photos of the contestants to judge for our selves...
Apparently a six-month residency, if only on paper, suffices. An apartment lease.
Worked with a pair of sisters from the Virgin Islands many years ago. One was a striking beauty. Both had knock-out accents.
That moment when a rape survivor equates being raped with getting beat in a beauty contest by a person who didn’t even live in the territory.
Imagine if one of the girls in Connecticut compared being beaten in women’s track by a guy claiming to be a girl, with being raped by a guy?
The blonde is the winner
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