Posted on 08/20/2019 11:10:18 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
ST. CROIX Six of the ten contestants who participated in Sunday evenings 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 worlds 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 pageants 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 events official photographer and some attendees.
(Excerpt) Read more at viconsortium.com ...
Some people can’t escape being the eternal victim.
I once had an employee who was related to Kaye Lani Rae Rafko, Miss America, 1988.
Story was that Kaye Lani was working as a nurse in a Toledo hospital. She had tried and failed three times to win the Miss Ohio pageant.
She was 24, which is when you turn into a pumpkin in the pageant business. Staring at her last opportunity it dawned on her that the track record proved that it was impossible to win Miss Ohio unless you were a blonde.
Since Toledo borders Michigan she moved a couple miles north and entered their pageant. She won, and the rest is history.
So carpetbagging is not exactly new in this biz.
Ask them that?
Magic 8 Ball says Very Doubtful.
Not very good optics....
Kinda like when Hillary ran for senate in NYS?
See #27. Thanks for posting the photo.
Two seconds. That might be an FR “great minds” record.
Denmark - here is a deal for you. PR and USVI for Greenland. Even up trade.
"One particular scene cut deep among some locals: as the top five finalists were called forward, the local girls remained at the back."
I think the one on the far right is prettiest.
Cheating at a beauty pageant? Isnt anything sacred anymore?
The dark haired petite cutie in the front center has a serious bottom.
I personally think there should be a No Makeup contest instead of a Mo Makeup contest.
Sounds stricter than running for Congress. Hillary was a NYS Senator and she is from Chicago an Arkansas. Many Congresscritters seem to move into the district to run.
Your support of the rules is refreshing!!
It IS an industry, and girls bent on getting into the top tier, and ambitious enough, only need to learn the minimal rules in different venues and then doing what it takes enter multiple contests until they either give up the quest or win.
The pageant owners are the pageant owners, not local residents anywhere, and it is the pageant owners not “votes of local residents” that determine the entrant rules in any locale.
Now then, it is possible, in any locale, state or territory, if they don’t like a pageant’s rules because they do not protect the locals enough, they can, legally, not allow a pageant’s operations in their area.
On the other hand, should they do so, they could be hurting their own locals, as their own locals could become unable to enter a pageant they would like to enter.
I actually do sympathize with the VI locals. However, if no laws or rules were broken, they were most unfortunate in not understanding the result they saw was possible, like it or not.
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