You know i was wondering the same Vanessa Williams won a long time ago but have you noticed that no african american girls ever win Miss America I wonder why they hardily ever win.. I was reading A Glamour Magazine with that as a topic what is your thoughts
2007-01-01 16:24:35 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Excuse me before you start judging me i am not racist i said I READ IT IN A MAGAZINE read my question before judging me
2007-01-01 16:36:16 · update #1
girl...they do choose black girls
more often than they should in my opinion
i'm by far NO racist what so ever
i have a black niece for heavens sake
but did u know they have a pagaent for
only blacks that whites aren't allowed
but if white ppl did that....yeah right
2007-01-01 17:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by miss@merica 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
While there have been others since Williams, American still has a lot of hidden and suppressed racial issues to deal with. I don't believe it's entirely, or even mostly a conscious discernment, but America still equates white with fair, beauty, purity and black with less than white when it comes to aesthetics. This is true despite the fact that even proportions of truly beautiful women in the world have been non-white. The cultural influence, pushed by advertising, is so strong that many young non-white girls pick white dolls over darker skinned dolls to play with saying they are prettier (even though they are often made from the same molds with different colored plastics).
2007-01-01 16:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by SDTerp 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ya your right..... vanessa williams is amazing and is a really great actress but besides her nothing really comes from being a miss america winner. i personally hate beauty pagents. usually the ugglier or planner looking ones have better personalites. i think beauty pagents give white girls (like myself) a bad name. im not raciest and dont want anyone to get that idea, but the truth is that usually white girls win.
2007-01-01 16:32:12 · answer #3 · answered by HANNAH S 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
2004 Miss America was Ericka Dunlap, one of the African-American 'Miss America'
2007-01-01 16:40:56 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Who cares? There would be a Miss Black America Pagent, but nobody would want to be Miss Idaho.
2007-01-01 16:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by RoninShonen 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
There has been a couple since Vanessa Williams, but she is the most memorable.
2007-01-01 16:26:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
You know Vanessa Williams had the crown taken away from her...There has been a few others...
2007-01-01 18:53:04 · answer #7 · answered by ABBYsMom 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There have been 5
1984 - Vanessa Williams
1984 - Suzette Charles (who took over after Vanessa lost her crown)
1990 - Debbye Turner
1991 - Marjorie Vincent
1994 - Kimberly Cockerham
(oh and apparently there is one just recently)
2007-01-01 16:27:35 · answer #8 · answered by Ashley P 6 · 10⤊ 1⤋
duno. But african american girls and african ones are very stylish at the pagents and as you say it mite be a bit of racism or sum underlying thing stopping them going ahead
2007-01-01 16:34:57 · answer #9 · answered by anth08_88 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Personally I think it's not racism but that the "ideal" representative
of America should (not in my opinion) be white (to the judges.)
2007-01-01 16:28:32 · answer #10 · answered by whatever_5089 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋