Fraternity puts on Plus-Sized Beauty Pageant at WKU.

[Wolfman]

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.

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