Awesome! Ole Miss Has First Black Homecoming Queen
Just 50 years after ending its notorious segregation policy, Ole Miss finally has a black homecoming queen. The school just crowned Courtney Roxanne Pearson as their queen, with the student receiving the crowning during the halftime ceremonies of the Ole Miss-Auburn football game.
“I am still in shock, but I am definitely very excited,” said Pearson. She defeated the runner-up Ashleigh Davis, 1,477 to 1,387 in a very close race.
“It couldn’t have come at a better time,” said Pearson, who won her crown on the 50 anniversary of the admission of James Meredith, the first African American to ever attend the institution. Meredith’s presence on campus led to riots.
“Ole Miss, get ready. We just changed the face,” Pearson said.
Pearson didn’t expect to win the competition, but was thrilled to find out that she did. Her father, Commander Kerri Pearson, escorted her onto the field to receive her crown.
“We do have a typical tradition in that, that person is usually Greek, and that person is usually white,” Pearson said. ”But, I think we’re kind of going away from that and really trying to look at what that person has done for the university, on what they’ve been involved in, what they’re grades are looking like, things like that.”
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This is NOT Awesome! The sister is definitely pretty, but this is a sick little joke being played on us.
To wit: the very overweight pretty black woman image is fast becoming the standard of beauty for black women, while the opposite is being done for white women and other races.
Gabourey Sidibe is being portrayed as a s*x symbol. Who did they ask? Most brothers wouldn’t agree with that. I’m not criticizing the big girls, but this is a clear game of image manipulation.
Many years ago in Europe, heavy white women were the models of their day. Thin women were dismissed as too skinny and in need of food. They weren’t seen as good breeding stock.
The standard has changed: rail-thin models are seen as the standard for all other races, even if her ribs are showing.
Most women have a little meat on their bones. It’s not good to promote extreme obesity, nor is it good to promote extremely starved bodies, either.
We are so desperate to be accepted as equal (we have always been-others just didn’t get the memo!!) that we accept any accolade given to us, even if it’s a joke that’s being played on us.
I have no bias towards obesity; I just know when someones playing us, and this is the case here. Bless this sister, for she’s going to receive tons of unjustified criticism.
Wear the crown, don’t let it wear you, Courtney!
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I agree with Dollarsdoug, because I have been watching this for sometime, here lately. Especially here in the South white women don’t want black women to be recognized as queens, or beautiful that are of their usual figure size and and beauty, be they very black, or even brown-skinned or light-skinned similar to them. It sort of becomes a much more putdown to them, so they prefer to have black women competing alongside them that are not of their likes, in ANYWAY. So that they can behind closed doors laugh not be too defeated, mentally and in EVERY way, so to speak. In other words, this wonderful black woman is the winner, THIS YEAR, but she’s is seen as definitely not of what whites consider to be beauty, but is being played up as the beauty of black people. It is a psych game that they have began to play of black people, with many of us falling for it. Well, I’ve got news for them, we have black women of beauty that they cannot match, and ours come in every color, INCLUDING PURE BLACK, to all other shades. For black women, as Chaka Khan sings or “Every Woman.” And lastly, let me say to this beautiful, heavyset black woman, Pearson, congratulations to you, dear. — Rev. George Brooks