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04-05-2007, 09:31 AM
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The point of the pageant in three sentences.
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Originally Posted by Wolfman
"This pageant is showing that we are beautiful," said contestant LaTya Palms, a freshman from Nashville, Tenn. "Beauty has no size."
Price said the pageant has helped her tune into her self-confidence and self-respect more.
"This show presents something good to the public," Price said. "We are a population who is often overlooked."
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Again, kudos to the Omegas. 
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04-05-2007, 09:40 AM
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Watch out the big girls... now I wanna be in a pageant 
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04-05-2007, 10:21 AM
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That's a great outcome! I'm just curious why there were no non-African American participants, only because it seems that (in my experience) plus size African American women are accepted more than plus size white women.
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04-05-2007, 11:48 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
That's a great outcome! I'm just curious why there were no non-African American participants, only because it seems that (in my experience) plus size African American women are accepted more than plus size white women.
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I'll agree with that too. Why is that?
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04-05-2007, 12:00 PM
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My guess is that none entered because it was an Omega event and they decided that it must not be for them because they were nervous like that.
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04-05-2007, 03:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PM_Mama00
That's a great outcome! I'm just curious why there were no non-African American participants, only because it seems that (in my experience) plus size African American women are accepted more than plus size white women.
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What you assert is correct, but the reality is that, essentially, historically BGLOs and historically WGLOs exist in different social spaces in college life. Thus, there must be some intentionality for non-African Americans to participate in NPHC events like this.There are rare exceptions of this phenomenon. For example, a couple of years ago, the winner of the Miss Omega Psi Phi Pageant at LSU was caucasian.
http://www.mightyninth.org/docs/news...s/spring05.pdf (p.3)
http://www.lsusports.net/ViewArticle...&ATCLID=174864
Last edited by Wolfman; 04-05-2007 at 03:15 PM.
Reason: typo
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