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The pageant organizers demanded to see her papers. Ironic, no?
Meet Jakiyah McKoy, the 7-year-old who won the Miss Chiquita Delaware beauty and talent contest for Hispanics this year. After she claimed the crown, however, there was a problem: The public didn't think she was "the best representative of Latin beauty, " according to El Tiempo Hispano. According to reports, Jakiyah's win caused controversy at the time she was crowned, then later as organizers said her parents never brought in documentation that proved her Dominican heritage (one of the requirements for contestants is that they must be at least 25 percent Latino). Maria Perez, president of contest sponsor Nuestras Raices Delaware, told the Latino Rebels website, "We can't have her be the queen if she doesn't have the proper documentation." An online petition has been set up to allow Jakiyah to keep her crown.
So illegals protest when we require "proper documentation" but strip a child of a pageant crown for not proving her heritage with "papers"...my how rich.
I agree with you there, Calipoppy. Hispanic's NOT a race or an ethnicity; it's a word that can mean anything when twisted around. A girl from Argentina; even if she was of "pure" Swedish family, would she be Ok as a "Hispanic"? I don't know in 2013.
That her Hispanic-ness is being questioned. I've heard of a scholarship being denied before on similar grounds, but the recipient in that case was a blonde, blue eyed girl.
my son didnt even qualify for the hispanic scholarship....why, because they only want central american nationalities...and our ancestry is from Spain
Seven-year-old Jakiyah McKoy was crowned Little Miss Hispanic Delaware two weeks ago but was soon forced to relinquish her title after concerns over her heritage led to an investigation and sparked a backlash. The complaints reportedly came from pageant-goers who believed McKoy — who is black and was born in Brooklyn, NY — did not epitomize Latin beauty, according to Buzzfeed and Latino Rebels.
McKoy allegedly qualified because her grandmother was born in the Dominican Republic but a pageant official admits that her family was asked to confirm her heritage after the organization was questioned on the issue. The other contestants were allegedly not asked to provide proof of their backgrounds.
Sounds like "racial profiling" to me; it's Ok for Hispanics to do that to each other if a person looks too "Black"? Sheesh!
No irony here. The laws that you allude to and the rules of a beauty pageant are two very different things.
Isn't a law also a rule?
Why shouldn't both be followed properly? Why should the Beauty Pageant, something that's not seriously important to the lives of all Americans, have rules that are more important than the Laws of our nation?
We used to have one, it was called "Miss America". Thank g-d it's no longer a whites-only pageant.
The article quoted in the OP was outrageous. Replace "Hispanic" with "Aryan" and see how that reads. It would sound like racist, neo-Nazi BS which is exactly what it would be.
That her Hispanic-ness is being questioned. I've heard of a scholarship being denied before on similar grounds, but the recipient in that case was a blonde, blue eyed girl.
That's why I oppose criteria for things that involve some sort of Sherman Williams paint color chart.
This months national geographic beautifully sums up my feelings on how more and more of the US is becoming mixed race and the lines will just keep getting blurrier and blurrier.
The true irony is that most of the "latinas" that would win that kind of contest really just look like J-Lo and would be 75% or more European. They are practically "white" when they stand next to the south americans that don't end up modeling.
They are really just arguing over which part of Europe some of these gals have most of their DNA from.
my son didnt even qualify for the hispanic scholarship....why, because they only want central american nationalities...and our ancestry is from Spain
"The Hispanic scholarship?"
What's that?
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" according to El Tiempo Hispano. According to reports, Jakiyah's win caused controversy at the time she was crowned, then later as organizers said her parents never brought in documentation that proved her Dominican heritage (one of the requirements for contestants is that they must be at least 25 percent Latino). Maria Perez, president of contest sponsor Nuestras Raices Delaware, told the Latino Rebels website, "We can't have her be the queen if she doesn't have the proper documentation." An online petition has been set up to allow Jakiyah to keep her crown.
