Biracial UT Pageant Winner Slammed As 'Not Black Enough' On Twitter
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/04/biracial-ut-pageant-winner-slammed-as-not-black-enough-on-twitter.html
The winner of the Miss Black University of Texas is taking the high road after critics on social media claimed she's “not black enough.”
Rachael Malonson, 22, who is biracial, was crowned on Sunday. The event was hosted by Kappa Alpha Psi, a predominantly black fraternity.
“It was definitely a huge honor to win. As a biracial woman, I didn’t even think I was able to place,” she told Fox News.
In a Facebook post after her win, Malonson said she was at first reluctant to take part in the pageant because of her mixed race.
“I challenged myself by vulnerably expressing obstacles I face as a biracial woman and was not going to leave the stage without letting others know that my blessings and strength are in Christ alone,” she wrote.
But soon after she was crowned, Twitter trolls said she should not have won the pageant because, quite simply, she didn’t actually identify as African American.
Malonson, whose father is black and whose mother is white, said she was taken off guard by the criticism, particularly since part of her pageant platform was trying to break down stereotypes and educating people about racial identity.
“I didn’t realize that even after I received the title I would still have to explain myself, that there was still ignorant people out there who are asking me to prove myself,” she said. “Just because I have straight hair and olive skin tone doesn’t mean I’m not black…I don’t have to look a certain way to be black.”
Malonson, who is a senior and a broadcasting and journalism student at the University of Texas, seems to have taken the criticism in stride. In a Twitter post and to Fox News, she thanked everyone who came out and supported her, particularly those in the African American community.
“The beautiful thing about this is all the people her [at UT] who have come out and defended me,” she said. “It shows I have a beautiful support system here.”
She said she will take this experience and turn it into an opportunity. She will dedicate the next year to educating people about racial identity and breaking down stereotypes by posting videos from different people talking about their cultural and racial roots.
“And I will continue to support black women empowerment,” she said.
In a story in the Daily Texan, a student newspaper, Malonson said she has long struggled with her mixed heritage because no one could figure out where she was from. So many people thought she was Hispanic, she said, that she started to believe it herself – even though she was not.
“I remember I felt so insecure because people didn’t understand who I was by my look,” Malonson said. “I’m confident in it now and see it as a unique trait where I’m able to teach people that not every black person (and) not every mixed person looks the same way.”
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C'mon Man...lmao -
She black isn't she? She had every right to compete AND win.
The contest should be based on contribution to the black community anyway. ? a beauty pageant. -
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Gotta hear her speak before I decide
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Black_Samson wrote: »Kat only saying that cause she got the family jawline.
My family jawline is a little softer than that..lol.
I feel for her..folks quick to claim Barack, but she isn't qualified for a black beauty pageant? Must be two sides. -
.............this is some ? .
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She ain't black she's more of a exotic Caucasian
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Yea I was about to defend ol girl but she's white af lol
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Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh about that........
So we still doing the one drop rule or nah???? -
Fck twitter. Leave allthat alone and tune out all this nothing noise. Then it would just be whatever "they say" out there. This goes for the internet as a whole where it applies. She already won, ride off, enjoy your victory and do what you do.
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her grandfather must be black or somethin...
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BOSSExcellence wrote: »her grandfather must be black or somethin...
Says her father is black -
The way I see it at least she's actually half black...
You think this ? above entering a black beauty pageant if she could get away with it? -
Soooo out of all those black women they chose her?This is the craziest story I have ever heard.
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If Jesse Williams and Russel Wilson get a pass...
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All the darkskin girls came runner up.
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Yo, I wish I had access to some of my Dad's old Howard University yearbooks from the early 60's. I believe the Kappas had a white Ms. Kappa or something like that then. I won't be in New York for another month or so, I'll try to remember when I go back to find them and I'll take a pic and post it...
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She looks white so i understand
Not one curl is in that hair -
Yea I was about to defend ol girl but she's white af lolCottonCitySlim wrote: »She looks white so i understand
Not one curl is in that hair
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One drop rule making a comeback
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She must be related to Logic
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Dont want her to win then dont let her in
Remember that white boy black sororities had at the BET awards? -
Joker_De_La_Lover wrote: »BOSSExcellence wrote: »her grandfather must be black or somethin...
Says her father is black
yeh??! and what he mixed wit?? lol -
She black isn't she? She had every right to compete AND win.
The contest should be based on contribution to the black community anyway. ? a beauty pageant.
If they didn't tell us she was biracial we would never know smh