. . .because your post and that puss are winners!!!!!!!!

and be heard on the internet, on how they hate Muslims, and anyone else. We all know you're racists. Keep this shit to yourself. Better yet, move out of the country. No one wants to hear how ignorant you really are.

When you base all your judgments and pre-conceived ideas due to the color of someone's skin, you create an extremely narrow outlook as to "us vs them."

Under the yoke of their limited perception anything not matching the superficial idea of you becomes them.

They can't identify with the world.

Their frustration is all based on fear and ignorance.

America 2013
~~~~Love it or Leave it ~~~!!!!!!

Ugh I am so embarassed that she's from my hometown.

And we know how well that turned out.

permeates all societies and cultures, we americans are well represented in that sub culture. I glad to see the new Miss America. She is pretty and smart.

When will that type of thinking ever pass?

I'm glad Miss Kansas lost.
The only Miss America I want to see is the Miss America that
has only the guns that evolution gave her.

It's because all of the gun nuts on facebook loved her.

How does a pageant encourage diversity when the goal is to weed out all but the most "ideal" appearance?

.... when they were saying who they were & where they're from, hers was something about 'sending text photos isn't allowed in this contest but it IS allowed in my home state ... I'm Miss New York!'

Who were the shills that wrote that shit? Nearly all of them were obnoxious little blurbs. I wonder if any of the girls was hesitant to say the crap?

GIRLS are minors, plain and simple.

& I was typing off the top of my head rather than weighing every single letter for political correctness so as not to offend persons like yourself, you need to find a more fulfillling hobby.

Still gorgeous. I LOVE BOLLYWOOD.

>sigh< and pure Bollywood.

"Honor killings" are still rampant in India.

... performance.

If an Irish-American wins will you be sure to point out the atrocities that have taken place in that benighted land? Our understanding of a young woman's talent portion will not be complete without it.

Hekate
(as I've mentioned before, Irish-American)

The woman in India died because she wanted more than being someone's property.

there is a certain negative aspect to that heritage?

Brutal rapes are not exactly unknown in America either, which is no stranger to having a section of its male population believing that they have the right to dominate the female of their species.

Also... one should not celebrate American culture - perhaps in a different country - because of incidents like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook around the same time as this brutal rape in India?

Besides, if you were fully informed about the events in India following this brutal rape, you would have been aware that in the democratic system that is India today, thousands of people ... especially young people... came out and demonstrated, over an extended period of time, to the extent that the government was compelled to revise the country's laws regarding rape.

We did not see any similar demonstrations in this country ... certainly not to the extent in India... for a certain level of gun control that could keep our children safe in school.

India does not need the world to pontificate to it about its treatment of women. Speaking like this smacks of a 'my culture is better than yours' attitude. Attitudes like this should have ended with the demise of the imperialist era, the time of the 'white man's burden', when European countries believed it was their 'duty' to bring their 'civilization' to the world.

A culture has to realize its flaws from within to effect change. Just as sensible gun laws will not come about in America as a result of the world telling America how to act in this regard.

Sorry, I ain't buying into this self-congratulatory celebration.

Why should a damn BEAUTY PAGEANT be a sign of progress for South Asian Americans? When they've succeeded in many other sectors in the USA for years like in science, politics, the law, etc.?

This is a damn step BACKWARD to the days when women were expected to go to college to get a "Mrs. degree", be a stay-at-home mom while the husband is the breadwinner, and suck it up with sexual harassment if they worked at all (most likely as the secretary).

I could go on and risk violating Godwin's Law about how these pageants are PICKY with the definition of beauty, but you get my drift.

I miss "Unrec".

this trivial fluff is clogging up LBN. Who cares about a dumb pageant?

After the 1960s the scholarship portion became incredibly important -- I had no idea. The woman in question is now a veterinarian.

God, when I think of what my mother would have said if I had wanted to compete in any sort of "beauty pageant"! We were as poor as could be, but for all Mom's sterling qualities I can say without qualification that she was an intellectual snob. Fairy princess dreams were not allowed and Santa did not exist. Boy did I feel subversive when I told my wee ones that Santa was going to visit!

the "miss america" pageant might be different from the others through. i know "miss america" has always tried to stay kind of more conservative and 'traditional" .

Miss U.S.A. is based totally on beauty and poise .. not so much intellect.
Miss America is scholarship pageant .. based on scholastic ability and talent .. not so much on beauty. I just think it has more integrity than the Miss U.S.A. pageant and minus Donald Trump.

I found this:
Now almost 30 years later, on January 30, 2010, another black woman, Caressa Cameron, Miss Virginia, is the latest recipient of America’s most coveted pageant crown. While Cameron’s win in January 2010 did not elicit as much shock and surprise as Williams in 1983, it did make me (and I sure a number of other people of color) proud to see, yet another Black woman win the Miss America title. Since 1983 eight African American women have won the crown: Vanessa Williams, Miss America (1984), Suzette Charles, Miss America (1984), Debbye Turner, Miss America (1990), Marjorie Judith Vincent, Miss America (1991), Kimberly Aiken, Miss America (1994), Erika Harold, Miss America (2003), Erica Dunlap, Miss America (2004) and now, Ms. Cameron, Miss America (2010) That is an average of once every three years. This is quite remarkable given the fact that it was not until September 1970, that the first black woman, Cheryl Brown, Miss Iowa, competed in the national contest. The pageant has also had one Asian American winner, Angela Perez Baraquio, representing Hawaii who became Miss America 2001. The number of black contestants who have finished in the top five have been noteworthy as well.

As various black women have won the pageant, the question of who and what defines beauty has again entered the public discourse. Vanessa Williams's light skinned features, Suzette Charles biracial background, Debbye Turner's darker, yet Anglo looking features and Marjorie Vincent's classic black features were the subject of considerable debate and commentary within the African American community and the larger society. Some people went as far as to say that Debbye Turner was actually the first "black" Miss America due to the fact that she had “legitimately darker skin.” By the time Kimberly Aiken had won the crown in September 1993, such debates had largely subsided. This was most likely due to the novelty of having a black Miss America had disappeared. Black women were frequently if not routinely selected among hundreds of contestants. Moreover, collectively the African American women who had won the coveted title represented the entire spectrum of black beauty. In fact, the issue of skin color, though pronounced in black [and white] society prior to the 1960s, was much less of an issue by the last two decades of the 20th century.
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=perspectives/racial-politics-miss-america

And this young woman is of Indian descent. What is wrong with people?!