Ms. America is Racist! January 27, 2008

I was watching Miss America 2008 and was appalled, literally appalled. I was angered to see there were only 4 black women competing out of 52 people! Not to mention no hispanic, asian, native american. Majority caucasion. This is a serious issue. Are they stating that being beautiful in american means you have to be a size 2 and have blonde hair and blue eyes….well it seems like it. So then for the semi finalist they put 2 black women in, but guess what after the swimsuit contest they BOTH got eliminated. They get eliminated even after doing extremely well…. So guess what??? The only remaining people were white. I think there is definetly something wrong with that picture. Why no hispanics, no black, no asians. There are many races in the united states. What ever happened to the melting pot, of cultures that was suppose to represent all of the various religions and cultures that america represents. But yet when we have a show called miss american, a girl that is suppose to represent america ends up 95% of the time being white. This seems very racist to me. Also it makes me sick to my stomach when also every person on that stage is a size 0-4. With the exception of Miss Utah who was the only girl to sport a full piece bathing suit ( her body would not be considered fat, but healthy looking). Guess what. Miss Utah was eliminated. So I guess Miss America also doesnt want anyone over a size 4 to win either. It really makes me sick that in the year 2008 little asian,black,hispanic girls cant watch miss america and see anyone who looks like them. Or at least someone win that looks like them. It seems very unfair. But hey what do you expect when a contest has been out for over 20 years. A contest that has been out when there were no black people at all, it wasnt even heard of to have a black person in a miss america contest. so i guess i should be happy to see 4 people. I think not. We as americans need to get over the color of our skin and realize it is what is underneath that means the most…especially in the year 2008