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Should the Department of Education Be Abolished?Miss Oklahoma, Morgan Elizabeth Woolard, and the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant, went anti-immigration during the Q&A last night and just missed going home with the crown.
Coincidence?
Like the Perez Hilton/Carrie Prejean gay marriage Q&A of last year's Miss USA contest, the political trip up came from The Office star, Oscar Nunez. When Nunez asked Woolard if she supported Arizona's new law that requires police to inquire about random people's immigration status, Miss Oklahoma said she supports "states' rights."
In addition to supporting Arizona's SB 1070, arguably an unpopular position, by using the term states' rights in her answer, Woolard invoked a phrase has traditionally been code for racial discrimination.
It seems very fitting that Rima Fakih, an immigrant and Muslim, was the lady who inched past her and is now claiming the title of Miss USA.
Was Miss Oklahoma discriminated against because of her political views?
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"i'm against it, and i'm for it. so i see both sides" she sort of just said a series of words in a row and didnt have a real thought at all there.
@ katherine. She actually just said that she was for it. She just noted that she was against racial profiling which has nothing to do with the bill. The bill is anti-illegal immigration not anti-immigration.
since when has "states rights" been code for racial discrimination?
I thoght it was just "code" for states to be able to make their own laws, lol
Actually, she specifically said she was anti-illegal immigration. You need to update your article on that point. Additionally, your quote "Arizona's SB 1070, arguably an unpopular position" - according to independent polling, has a 70% approval rating nationally and in the state of Arizona.
If you are concerned about the facts in your article being right, you might want to check these.
Rima earned her title through her beauty and intelligence. Miss Oklahoma needs to get over it. It is final !
since the creation of the country in the writing of constitution when they formed the house and the senate and made enslaved africans 3/5 human beings and reached it's zenith in a little thing called the civil war, redemption and jim crow thru the civil rights era of the 60's. you might consider reading up on history.
Wow Katekilla! You are the definition of a leftist fear monger. Granted it was used a long time ago in an effort to maintain a dying and evil practice in slavery, but that does not mean that it WAS, IS, or WILL ALWAYS BE a code word for anything but states rights, let alone racial discrimination or slavery. Your words echo those of a statist (the federal kind) fascist.
It might have played a role in her losing, it might not have. Who knows? Two in a row could be coincidence, three would probably be a pattern.
I also have to agree with many previous posters in that this law has absolutely nothing to do with immigration, it is a crackdown on illegal immigration in the second largest kidnapping capital in the world. Will there be racial profiling... probably. There are good cops and bad cops. But calling the bill racist is simply leftist fear mongering. It is a copy and paste of the federal law. Read the bill.
And katherine.pryde... it is possible to be FOR upholding existing federal laws (aka the Arizona bill), while being AGAINST improper police behavior (in this case, racial profiling). Where so you draw the line? Maybe we should have no laws just to make sure that the police don't wrongly abuse their power?
wow, didn't know about the history of the phrase 'states rights'. Right now, with the federal government making historic power grabs, it's really about just that. The states retaining their sovereignity, and it's a big political phrase. Poor girl. I'm sure she didn't know it either.