Posted on 09/28/2013 7:02:07 PM PDT by markomalley
The winner of the Little Miss Hispanic Delaware contest has been stripped of her crown over concerns that she is not Hispanic.
The News Journal of Wilmington (http://delonline.us/15AmTA6) reported Saturday that 7-year-old Jakiya McKoy lost the title two weeks ago.
Some critics of the decision say the move was made because McKoy is black and not Latina enough, though organizers say it had nothing to do with race.
"There is just like a baseline of disrespect to black women," Daniel Jose Older, who started a Change.org petition, told the newspaper. "As Latinos, it's really important that we understand what's going on with us and that we reclaim this girl as our sister.
Pageant organizers require contestants to be at least 25 percent Hispanic.
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Maybe she should run for Little Miss Hispanic. According to Wiki, her name is, wait for it:
Maria Teresa Thierstein Simões-Ferreira Heinz Kerry.
Al Sharpton doesn’t care about “hispanics”.
I hesitate to think what sort of race based hoopla will come to the fore in the next... several years.....until we recover froim the slag that obamunism has wrought.
*shakes head* this country just gets sillier by the day..
Shouldn’t they determine who is eligible BEFORE the event, and then they should live with their own decision.
I’m glad I’m a conservative and don’t have to weigh the “facts” in this case: grammy is an illegal, that’s a plus, but “Jakiya” would be worth a full twenty points in Scrabble, that’s a minus, then there’s a self-described Latino talking about “disrespect”, so I don’t know which little all-defining race box to put that guy in.
So let’s just go to the default: Pageant organizers are racists, there we go, done.
I want to see the definition of Hispanic that contestants have to be at least 25% of.
Would a Native Mexican (indigenous) qualify? If she didn’t speak Spanish? Would a Peruvian named Hiro Matsuko? An Argentinian named Greta Hoffner? A Castilian named Catalina Gutierrez? A Spaniard named Maryam Abouzaid?
She could be Mulatto, Mestizo, White or Black or the mixture of Black and Mexican Indian, (Zambo), and still me Hispanic.
When we lived in San Antonio I would occasionally run into a guy who was as White Robert the Bruce, but who spoke only Spanish.
I have seen Cubans in Florida who were the same. They could be Black, White of Zimmerman.
I loved this line:
"Tiffany Ayala, whose daughter, Meriana Ayala, ended up replacing McKoy as the title holder, said McKoy often told them she was black, not Dominican...If youre not Hispanic, you cant join it, Ayala said. Just like Im not going to put my daughter in the Little Miss Ebony Queen."
Bwahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20130927/NEWS/309270069/Little-Miss-Hispanic-Delaware-stripped-crown-after-racial-complaints
Loose screws all around.
Isn’t that special!!!!
If we had a Miss WHITE _______(fill in the blank) we could have fun saying a Blonde was ‘whiter’ than a redhead, would a ‘Ruddy complexion of Irish descent’ be WHITE enough?
Could we judge Whiteness on how they looked after an hour or three in the tanning booth?
Would an Albino be ‘overly WHITE’?
Then we could designate White White, Black White, Hispanic White, Asian White....
This is all so confusing......
Charlize is for looking at only.
Arrested Development was a great show. (per pic)
Great show, although, you had to ignore about 10% of it for the idiot politics. About standard quota.
Well, usually ...
10% isn’t bad for Hollywood.
No Monster pics. :)
The girl on the right looks a little too white to me.
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