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'Why is Miss South Africa white?'
Channel 24 ^ | 2012-12-24 | Lesley Mofokeng

Posted on 12/31/2012 7:28:11 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Johannesburg - A white girl representing South Africa was the most jarring thing for some beauty pageant watchers to witness this week.

When the blue-eyed former Miss SA Melinda Bam took to the Miss Universe stage at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas on Wednesday night, she triggered a social media buzz.

Her appearance sparked an avalanche of tweets, mostly from American viewers during the pageant, which was streamed live online at 03:00 local time.

(Excerpt) Read more at channel24.co.za ...


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To: Oberon
I think it’s more basic than that. I think there are a lot of Americans of a generation younger than mine who grew up never knowing about the colonial history of South Africa, and have no idea that a significant minority of the population there is white.

Yep and they've probably never heard of Apartheid. Also, it's unlikely they know who Nelson Mandela is.

61 posted on 12/31/2012 10:07:48 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Her parents are white? That aside, an American couple of Scottish ancestry were stationed in South Africa when the fraternal twin children were born. Classic red haired, blue eyed Scots. At college they tried to join an African American club on campus. They were the only authentic African Americans in the room. The rest were black Americans with possible distant African ancestry. They were rejected for insufficient melanin.


62 posted on 12/31/2012 10:10:02 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Isabel C.

I’m watching “Ted” right now and could think of some funnier things but, JR would have me undercover looking out for lightning.


63 posted on 12/31/2012 10:14:25 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: MinorityRepublican

She’s a ‘Token’ South African

Diversity!


64 posted on 12/31/2012 10:15:58 PM PST by libertarian27 (Profile page has links to the 2011 & 2012 FR Cookbooks- Enjoy)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Because some things are more beautiful than others..
Simple really.. to make everything equally beautiful is to MOCK beauty..


65 posted on 12/31/2012 10:18:49 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Vendome

Does it involve a Dirty Fozzie?


66 posted on 12/31/2012 10:19:19 PM PST by EEGator
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To: MinorityRepublican

Let’s see now, because South Africa was founded by white people and their descendents still live there?


67 posted on 12/31/2012 10:33:31 PM PST by calex59
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To: GeronL

You wrote: “daddy’s little girl cuz daddy was into pedo incest.” If you didn’t refer to Melinda Bam, who are you referring to?


68 posted on 12/31/2012 10:37:35 PM PST by jonrick46 (The opium of Communists: other people's money.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Seems no one complains when the US has a non white win beauty contests. You have to be major White Guilt Liberal to whine when a white girl represents So. Africa in a beauty pageant


69 posted on 12/31/2012 10:48:13 PM PST by SeminoleCounty (Fiscal Conservatives are Neither)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I didn’t realize there was a racial requirement. Seems racist to question her race. Is she in any way unqualified? Seems more than attractive enough to have a shot at winning. Id think anyone would be happy to have her representing their country.


70 posted on 12/31/2012 11:12:52 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: EEGator

LOL

I just looked up the possibility of a sequel and it’s coming 2014.

Om my Gawd, it was HeeLarryUs!!!!!..

If explosive delitives bother you, not your thing. But, for sheer buthead, I’m. In my 20’s couldn’t careless mode, too funny.

I didn’t think I’d like The Hangover but breaking funny!


71 posted on 12/31/2012 11:16:24 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: ThunderSleeps
I didn’t realize there was a racial requirement.

I'm sure there is a racial requirement for the Miss Black USA.

I am not sure about Miss White USA.

72 posted on 12/31/2012 11:38:14 PM PST by Eaker (Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. — Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: jonrick46

I wasn’t talking about a specific person, its more of a general comment on the sick culture we have


73 posted on 01/01/2013 12:11:52 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: F15Eagle
Here's a very beautiful South African ... JAS-39

She may be wearing SA colors, but she's a Swede.

74 posted on 01/01/2013 12:47:49 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: F15Eagle
Here's a very beautiful South African ... JAS-39

She may be wearing SA colors, but she's a Swede.

75 posted on 01/01/2013 12:48:09 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: MinorityRepublican
Afrikaners (descended from Dutch Settlers in the Cape Colony) is now 10% or so.

CIA says (2001 census):

black African 79%, white 9.6%, colored 8.9%, Indian/Asian 2.5% (2001 census)

She could be "colored". They vary across a wide spectrum, as would be expected.

76 posted on 01/01/2013 1:01:26 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: aviator
One engine; two pilots....something wrong with that picture!

It's a conversion trainer. No different in concept than an F-16B or D.

77 posted on 01/01/2013 1:03:26 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: GeronL
SA is 90% black

CIA World Facto Book, based on 2001 Census, saya 79%. But 8.9% are "colored" and may look white, black, Asian, or some combination thereof.

78 posted on 01/01/2013 1:06:29 AM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Maybe cause South Africa wants to WIN rather than be PC with some Watusi.


79 posted on 01/01/2013 1:25:56 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
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To: El Gato

well, many leftists still subscribe to the “One drop rule” (to inflate their member numbers) so, I was close enough


80 posted on 01/01/2013 1:26:13 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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