Sadly, we are not truly a nation of equals.... no matter how far we think we've come. I agree it should not matter who won, hard work was put in by all competitors.
There was a similar national controversy (side note--is it a good thing that instances like this receive national attention??) when Hampton University in Hampton, VA crowned a white student as Miss Hampton in, I think, 2008. Full disclosure there was a additional grumbling because she was a part-time student at a satellite campus. But everyone was really up in arms about her ethnicity. It was pretty intersting.
Where did they find that many girls in one chapter that were THAT coordinated? And I thought we did a rockstar job during Derby Days ;-) I only watched the first 5 minutes... but that was pretty sick! Kudos to those girls for rockin' it.
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Sadly, we are not truly a nation of equals.... no matter how far we think we've come. I agree it should not matter who won, hard work was put in by all competitors.
There was a similar national controversy (side note--is it a good thing that instances like this receive national attention??) when Hampton University in Hampton, VA crowned a white student as Miss Hampton in, I think, 2008. Full disclosure there was a additional grumbling because she was a part-time student at a satellite campus. But everyone was really up in arms about her ethnicity. It was pretty intersting.
I am not familiar with the step off thing with frats and sororities... but I do not ever agree with double standards on anything... xxxooo
Agreed! Nothing more to say - it was completely unfair.
Where did they find that many girls in one chapter that were THAT coordinated? And I thought we did a rockstar job during Derby Days ;-) I only watched the first 5 minutes... but that was pretty sick! Kudos to those girls for rockin' it.
This was in the post today: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/03/AR2010030303895.html
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