<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2299f8bd-69f6-448d-b453-2ac84feab07f/335D3E9B-7E19-4DC1-B390-3D4A0339ED8E/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html" href="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.weaselzippers.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><P><A href="http://www.weaselzippers.net/.a/6a00e008c6b4e588340120a5feb378970b-pi"><IMG src="http://www.weaselzippers.net/.a/6a00e008c6b4e588340120a5feb378970b-400wi" alt="Article-1221467-06E1F75F000005DC-971_468x232" class="asset asset-image at-xid-6a00e008c6b4e588340120a5feb378970b " /></A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><P>Ain't "post-racial" America great? Note: Will Obama have another "beer summit" at the White House?....</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><STRONG>A university student has provoked a race storm after she was crowned as the first white winner of a beauty pageant at a predominantly black university.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><STRONG>Nikole Churchill claimed she was subjected to racial abuse after she won the pageant at Hampton University in Virginia.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><STRONG>She was so outraged that she wrote to U.S. President Barack Obama complaining of her treatment,</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><P>The five judges crowned her over the nine other contestants - all of whom were black. She was the first white woman to win the title at the university.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html"><STRONG>But the backlash began almost immediately, with some of the audience walking out of the auditorium as the announcement was made. In a traditional winners' photograph, two of the black runners-up are seen scowling into the camera.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2009/10/white-girl-wins-beauty-pageant-at-a-black-university-promptly-subjected-to-heaps-of-racial-abuse.html">The next day Ms Churchill was heckled at a university football game</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/335D3E9B-7E19-4DC1-B390-3D4A0339ED8E/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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