Posted on 12/10/2019 3:54:22 PM PST by Drew68
For the first time, top beauty pageants — Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America and now, Miss Universe — have crowned black women as their winners at the same time.
And that's a big deal if you know pageant history.
Beauty pageants early in their histories, some dating back to the 1920s, barred women of color from participating. Even after organizations began changing their rules to accept women of all races, there was still a lingering frustration and opposition to join.
Only in the last 50 years have black women become more prevalent in these competitions. Janelle Commissiong was the first black Miss Universe in 1977, Vanessa Williams was the first black Miss America in 1983, and Carole Anne-Marie Gist, the first black Miss USA contestant, was crowned in 1990. The following year Janel Bishop became the first black Miss Teen USA. When Zozibini Tunzi of South Africa was named Miss Universe on Sunday, she joined a historic group of black women, along with 2019 Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, 2019 Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris and 2019 Miss America Nia Franklin.
Here's what you should know about these four women:
Miss Universe fights against gender-based violence
Tunzi hails from the town of Tsolo in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. Along with English, the 26-year-old speaks Xhosa and has launched a social media campaign against gender-based violence.
In a recent Instagram post, she called on her fellow South Africans to write love letters pledging support for women in her country.
"It is my hope that these pledges will start, and continue a conversation around gender-based violence," Tunzi wrote. "We have to start the narration where right-thinking people act as role models for those who think it's okay to mistreat women."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
Are they hot, or not?
Beautiful women come in all colors of the spectrum.
Not this year.
Well....President Trump did say that more African-Americans are employed than ever before, so.....
Miss S Africa was a real looker in any color,.
No comment... I don’t want to be banned.
That’s because they replaced the bikini contest with a vertical leap test.
Racism! Clearly none of the judges are black men!
First blacks take over our commercials and now they are taking over our pagents.
Yeah. This thread is useless without pics!! d;^p
I thought we were supposed to be color blind. Content of a person’s character, not his/her color. Keep fanning the flames of division, foolish liberals.
The Miss World pageant is this weekend, so if a black lady wins, they will achieve maximum world beauty dominance.
All the contestants are beautiful anyway.
I think Miss USA, Chelsie Kyrst, is beautiful. She also seems quite accomplished. Didn’t really look at the others. As is true in her case, I find it interesting that children resulting from a marriage between a couple where one parent is white, and the other is black, are black by default.
Lots of casual racism in this thread.
“Miss USA, Miss America, Miss Teen USA and now Miss Universe are all black women”
Of course they are; it’s mandatory now.”
It also seems, based on the never ending, obnoxious TV commercials, that every black family in America is getting a new car for Christmas.
Ian Fleming’s 007 is now a black woman.
Miss Teaneck? No problem. Miss Universe? Not so much.
> Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, Miss America and now, Miss Universe — have crowned black women as their winners at the same time.
Any other outcome would be racist.
Mr. ‘roll the eyes’ is black too !!
And every black person is smarter than any white person is.
Today? 100%
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