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What do you think of a beauty contest only for Black Women in the USA that has existed since the 1968?

Thanks for the update. You know, I just did a little google search and was also reminded that there are two different pageants [1] Miss Black America and [2] Miss Black USA. I think the Miss Black USA is based on college funds and educational goals. This is the link for Miss Black USA of which is a scholarship pageant: https://www.missblackusa.org/ —naiylah archer, Miss Black USA 2025

The TikTok ban was a ruse. The current administration facilitated ByteDance selling part of the company.😎

I think MLK is one of the greatest leaders AfroAmericans and this nation period has produced. He was and is a brilliant and brave man. If I had to name 2 things where I thought he went wrong................. 1. He focused too much on integration instead of empowered separation. He should have fought for the laws to be changed at every level to make sure we had equal access and opportunity at every level in the United States and fight to make sure those laws were enforce. Outside of that, the focus should have been on progressing our ethnicity and culture as AfroAmericans. 2. Him and the rest of the Civil Rights leaders at that time should have focused more on fighting STRICTLY for the rights of FBA/AfroAmericans and not other minority groups. They should have been very specific about the Civil Rights bill making it for us alone. Not that other groups shouldn't have rights in this nation, but that they should have been the ones to fight for it themselves....not rely on us to do the fighting. The second one, it's really hard to blame on him because it's not something he could have really forseen. He was taken from us in 1968 and we didn't get a mass influx of immigrants into this nation until the 70s and later, so he didn't realize....as most of the Civil Rights leaders didn't....that so many of these non-White immigrants who BENEFITED from the Civil Rights struggle would actually come here and side with White Americans.

Not to take this thread in another direction but............ Since we're on the subject of Black women and beauty pageants, the issue of colorism should be addressed. We need to make sure the Black women who engage in and especially those who win these contests should actually be BLACK. Too often you have non-Black and mixed people who "back door" their way into these events and end up being hoisted over and on top of the actual Black participants. This is nothing but a product of self-hatred. Looking at a woman who is obviously not Black or looks like she's almost White...and calling HER "the most beautiful" woman in the community. One of my biggest problems with Beyonce wasn't Beyonce herself...but how she was often glorified as a symbol of "Black" female beauty. Whenever the subject of comparing female celebrities by race, Whites and Latinos would promote the women they thought were the most beautiful but when it came to Black people.....a lot of bruthaz would promote women like Beyonce or Halle Berry back in the day. Women who obviously weren't Black. A lot of pro-FBA podcasters are promoting lightskinned women as "ideal" models for who an FBA is or what an FBA looks like. They're pushing Beyonce and Angel Reese.

Lol.... Are you talking about Jet magazine's Beauty Of The Week?

I've heard of Miss Black America but I have no idea of what she actually does.😁😎

Seems Junior M.A.F.I.A. addressed this issue 30 years ago.... In one way or another, s8x has alway sold well. Get it.😁😎

Man, why would a picture of an interracial couple of sissies remind you of ME???? Come on bro........