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Triana

(22,666 posts)
Tue Sep 17, 2013, 01:35 PM Sep 2013

See The Top Thirty-Five Most Vile Racist Tweets From Right-Wingers About Newly Crowned Miss America! [View all]

Obviously, the many people who posted tweets and criticisms about Nina Davuluri don’t have a problem with her being of Indian descent…no, no, no. That would be “racist,” and racism doesn’t exist anymore. It’s just that she doesn’t represent America, which is something you want if you’re going to be Miss America.

And also, because she’s a Muslim terrorist.

A very pretty terrorist. Like the Tokyo Rose of Al Qaeda. And also, not a Muslim. But, whatever. You can’t expect to tell all those brown people apart. They all look exactly the same. But you know who doesn’t? THIS tattoo’d beauty...Miss Kansas, who many proclaim as the REAL Miss America:



. . . how might Miss Kansas more accurately reflect America’s view of itself? In what way could she possibly “represent” America more overwhelmingly than Nina, in a way that doesn’t involve race? Surely, “American” hasn’t become some kind of twisted code-word for “white.”





And the rest...http://aattp.org/see-top-thirty-five-vile-racist-tweets-right-wingers-newly-crowned-miss-america/

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