So Miss New York won the Miss America pageant, which apparently still exists and is even on TV. Yay, rejoice, pictures with crown, etc. Unfortunately, Miss New York is a darkie, and we can’t have that (link to lots of people tweeting about how a brown person can’t be American, or something).
As noted in the thread title, these tweets bother me for two reasons. Three, actually, but the last one isn’t important.* The first, obviously, is that bitches be racists.
The second is that most of these people apparently believe everyone who is not black, white, East Asian, an Eskimo, or Spanish-speaking must be an Arab. Look, when I was a child racists did things right. They had a strong grasp of geography because you needed one to argue that we didn’t all come from Africa. They pigeonholed us lesser races correctly. Today’s kids don’t know enough to hate properly. It’s just sad.
Apparently, most of them don’t even know where New York is, because “she can’t be Miss America because 9/11”. Tsk.
*The third reason is that I should have known better than to click on that Buzzfeed link in the first place.
So, those yoyos on Twitter are saying they miss America?
Anyway, in case anyone brings it up, Miss Davuluri is as American as anyone, and more so than most:
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Nina was born in Syracuse, New York, but moved to Oklahoma at age four and later to Michigan, where she would go on to attend college. Along with her family, she moved back to the Syracuse suburb of Fayetteville, NY in the mid-2000s, where her father is an obstetrician/gynecologist affiliated with St. Joseph’s Hospital.
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Dude, the people who’s tweets were in that linked article wouldn’t even understand the question you asked; it has too many hard words like “cogent” and “ire” and “supportable”.
I don’t see what the problem is. Miss America is supposed to be white, blonde, and lantern-jawed, and must belt out a country song and send at least one shout-out to the one true Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All the other contestants are basically extras in a police lineup.
I suspect I am really only upset at my own ignorance of what Miss America is supposed to be. I bet Nalluri won’t even hold with the time-honored tradition of having her crown taken away after posing for Playboy.
I thought one interesting thing about this was that so many of these redneck types were rooting for the tattooed contestant from Kansas. Then i looked more closely and saw that the tattoo itself was the Serenity Prayer, and it made sense.
You just know that if it had been a more typical tattoo—a butterfly or a tribal insignia or a peace sign or something—then all these same people would have been yelling “tramp” and “whore,” and expressing incredulity that a tattooed woman could be a Miss America contestant.
