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Black Women Win all Three Beauty Contest For The First Time in History

We already know that Black is beautiful, but for the first time in history the top beauty pageants in the country have simultaneously elevated this truth. Three Black women are currently wearing crowns as the 2019 Miss USA, Miss Teen USA and Miss America.
When Cheslie Kryst’s name was announced as Miss USA on Thursday she completed the historic trio with pageant winners 2019 Miss America Nia Franklin and recently crowned 2019 Miss Teen USA Kaliegh Garris. 

Kryst, who represents North Carolina, is a civil litigation attorney who received her law degree and MBA from Wake Forest University. 
People across social media marveled at Kryst’s natural hair and noticed that both she and Garris bypassed any form of hair straightening. 
Garris told Refinery21 that while some people tried to convince her to straighten her hair for the Miss Teen USA competition, she opted for her natural curls because when she’s wearing them, she feels confident. The Connecticut native is still in high school but plans to attend Southern Connecticut State University’s nursing program as she plans to become a trauma nurse in the future. 

Franklin represented New York and holds a master's degree in music composition from UNC School of the Arts. She is an opera singer and an advocate for arts advocacy. 
In 2012 Black women simultaneously wore crowns as Miss Teen USA and Miss USA. 
Congratulations to these 2019 beauty queens. Together they exude beauty, brains and Black girl magic! 
We’ll be tuning in later this year when Kryst represents the United States in the Miss Universe competition. 
Article was taken from “Becauseofthemwecan

My comments: I have always regarded beauty contest as a waste of America’s time because they tended to focus too much attention on cosmetics as oppose to a women’s personal qualities. As the saying goes: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. What one might find as beautiful may not be my idea of beauty.  
Over the years, the pageants started to focus more attention on the contestant’s personal qualities as oppose to cosmetics. Never the less, historically, these contestant winners have mostly been white; thus, promoting an image of white women and men as being the personification of beauty in America. But we need to ask why this is now happening at a time when our community has once again come under attack because of our skin color.

Some might agree or disagree, but here is my analysis of why this is happening now. It is associated with “White Guilt”. White men and women who are responsible for determining the winners of these contest are trying to send a message to people around the world; see, we are not so bad because we allow beautiful black women to win contests that were once only open to white women. This does not tarnish our image as a beauty people because we have always considered our women and men beautiful in the eyes of God.  Let’s thanks them for the honor of recognizing our beautiful women while we continue our struggle for equality in America.

Raymond Glenn

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