Wow. This is some crazy business. Two days after having been crowned the first-ever non-black winner of Hampton University's annual beauty pageant, 22-year-old Nikole Churchill actually wrote a letter to... President Obama? Asking that he chide her black classmates for walking out of the ceremony after she won, and for making "negative comments regarding [her] win."
Now, there are some interesting racial politics at play here that I definitely think merit some thought. But did this Nikole girl (who will now have a spot in the competition for Miss Virginia) not know she was totally asking for it? Not by entering the contest - obviously I think that anyone who pleases should enter whatever beauty pageant she likes - but with the whole letter deal. I know she must be brutally offended by what appears to basically just be really intense unpopularity (for whatever reason) but even so, perhaps our nation's first-ever black President has, like, bigger fish to fry? Or something? Granted, the girl has apologized for writing this letter and perhaps she didn't totally what she was doing when she sent it. But still... this whole scenario is leaving me with a strange taste in my mouth. What do you guys think?
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