<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/0fe1eb76-e40f-4aa2-b056-9ec4ebe7caca/3A552F4E-0068-4802-97C4-BD73F211E2BC/" 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.dailypress.com/wtkr-miss-hampton,0,6521092.story" href="http://www.dailypress.com/wtkr-miss-hampton,0,6521092.story" style="font-size: 11px;">www.dailypress.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.dailypress.com/wtkr-miss-hampton,0,6521092.story"><DIV>HAMPTON — Hampton University crowned its first non-black Miss HU Friday, leading to a division on campus that prompted her to write <A id="PEPLT007408" title="Barack Obama" href="http://www.dailypress.com/topic/politics/government/barack-obama-PEPLT007408.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">President Barack Obama</A>.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th annual Miss HU scholarship pageant. The senior nursing major attends the <A id="PLGEO100101100000000" title="Virginia" href="http://www.dailypress.com/topic/us/virginia-PLGEO100101100000000.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Virginia</A> Beach campus and is the competition's first non-black winner, according to executive pageant director Shelia J. Maye.</DIV> <BR /><DIV> Churchill, who is from <A id="PLGEO100101900000000" title="Hawaii" href="http://www.dailypress.com/topic/us/hawaii-PLGEO100101900000000.topic" class="taxInlineTagLink">Hawaii</A>, wrote Obama on Sunday to tell him that her crowning was met with negative comments because of her skin color. She invited him to visit HU and speak about racial tolerance.</DIV></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/3A552F4E-0068-4802-97C4-BD73F211E2BC/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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