Double Down
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When I was in high school, we had one of those Diversity Day! assemblies where people of various races/orientations speak to the student body about their experiences, primarily what it feels like to be discriminated against. This being the Rocky Mountain West, most of us had never seen either a Jewish person or a black person. So, for the most part, we were pretty receptive listening to them speak about what it was like deal with ignorant people. A person in a wheelchair also spoke, and moved a lot of people to tears. Then, to close the assembly, a former Miss America contestant spoke about how hard it was to grow up pretty, and how teachers in college regularly discriminated against her because of how beautiful she was, and how they clearly hated beauty queens. For the most part, she tried to keep it a secret that she was in the Miss America pageant one year, but it was hard, because often wanted to know if she had ever modeled, and she felt it was unfair to have to keep her past a secret.
Needless to say, it was a stunning example of courage by the ex-beauty queen to share her remarkable story. We Shall Overcome. The Iraq, and such as.
Needless to say, it was a stunning example of courage by the ex-beauty queen to share her remarkable story. We Shall Overcome. The Iraq, and such as.