{"id":548680,"date":"2021-06-21T18:52:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/?p=548680"},"modified":"2021-06-21T18:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:52:01","slug":"the-miss-black-america-pageant-yesterday-and-today-part-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/the-miss-black-america-pageant-yesterday-and-today-part-one_548680.html","title":{"rendered":"The Miss Black America Pageant Yesterday and Today Part One"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-style:italic; padding:8px 0px;\">The Miss Black America Organization celebrates Juneteenth with an insightful message by Founder, J. Morris Anderson.\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" dir=\"ltr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/qoZu-jPoFUMZrznDJOZAhadyUkQwei9sUMSiFg0jluFcZBk1tSwLEW5nPFaALV66tMclzAMdB8T_lpU-k0bevkg4XzM_Zvq9_5b10GfN4MAIhLcTqVcsclWNu8wA0_-hk9MOJowT\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"368\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Emancipation Proclamation&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Emancipation Proclamation freed American Slaves on January 1st, 1863, however, the last slaves to become aware of the proclamation which freed them,&nbsp;were in Texas on June 19th, in 1865, two years after they were supposedly free, and that date has since been celebrated as Juneteenth.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Proclamation did in fact, Emancipate the slaves from the cotton fields of the south. But, simultaneously, the American White Power Structure enslaved the minds of black people with a racist, derogatory belief system, of mental, and physical inferiority. For example, the Miss America Pageant, which symbolized what beauty was, in America, instituted a discriminatory application process &#8211; (Rule 7) &#8211; which forbade black women from competing in the pageant; and, required contestants to prove there was no black ancestry within them. This, Miss America Pageant&rsquo;s Rule 7, emphasized that black was absolutely not beautiful.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To prove the point, in 1923, the first Black American Women to appear in the Miss America Pageant came onstage as &ldquo;Slaves&rdquo; for a musical number. The Anti-Black Belief System, penetrated so deeply into the Black American Psyche, that many black people underwent devastating physical torture, in their futile efforts to appear more Caucasian-looking. This phenomenon, caused many black women to brutalize their children by putting painful clothespins on their noses to narrow them, in a woefully misguided challenge, to cause their noses to appear more European-like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Having been convinced, that curly hair was ugly, and bad, and straight hair was beautiful, and, good; many blacks, ignored the enormous damage to their scalps, and, used lye as a means of processing their hair straight; and, many, who had been brainwashed into believing dark skin was ugly, used bleach, in ill-directed, attempts to whiten their skin color. Many young black children&rsquo;s self-esteem was damaged, when they heard a parent speak positively of the little light-skinned girl, or boy, with the good hair.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And now, even in 2021, many Conservative State Legislators, are passing laws specifically to delete the American racist atrocities of the past and present-day, from the annals of American History, and, even from the U.S. Education System.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This unprincipled deceit, as if the vicious violence, the unspeakable brutality, and heinous murders of the past and of today, never actually occurred. Wow! This outrage is proverbial racism with a modernistic face, calling for deletion of all U.S. Critical Race Theories that tell the true, historically significant stories of American racial injustice.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the early 1960s, and prior, many black people felt a passionate, shameful mortification of being black in America. If one were to call another person &ldquo;black&rdquo;, a serious fight could have been instigated. It wasn&rsquo;t until James Brown got rid of his processed hair, and sang, &ldquo;Say it loud, I&rsquo;m black and I&rsquo;m proud&rdquo; that the sting began to be taken out of the word black. This, to reverse the belief system&rsquo;s perpetration that, &ldquo;if you&rsquo;re white, you&rsquo;re alright, if you&rsquo;re brown, stick around, but, if you&rsquo;re black, stand back&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" dir=\"ltr\"><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/PWC8CX3nM_piM-lZt-flNfEUWh0M9ATSrbffMLreAt3l5JuQ1Jeasi0lcYsv1dw1wHO4iUeKBfueSaGNh5Ixpb8QT1tbtC7uuicvABWqa6nLiaUE2VgJ0MxUMgUzJnFzKGrBaisY\" alt=\"\" width=\"487\" height=\"337\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Miss Black America Pageant was born, as a protest, against all the white supremist propaganda that had systematically infiltrated into the soul of Black Americans; and, was symbolized, and highlighted annually by the Miss America Pageant. This Miss Black America Pageant, was, and is, specifically, a means to provide the black woman with a stage on which she can freely display her talents, a microphone, through which she can air her proud Black American views, and a platform, from which she can be paraded as a universal symbol of Worldwide pride.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The MBA Pageant&rsquo;s Motto, &ldquo;Sow the seeds of Positivity, and, Reap the Flowers of Success,&ldquo; continually motivates black women to love the skin they are in &#8211;&nbsp;whatever the color; and to enjoy, and, be proud of the hair they wear, whatever texture is there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&rsquo;re interested in participating in The Miss Black America pageant competition and organization, please visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.missblackamerica.com\/pageant-registry\">www.missblackamerica.com\/pageant-registry<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" dir=\"ltr\"><span><span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/DTNIbQTXSm4KpKnx19PC9zltNuytdCfbUfJHW9yir3kYFifLWk5eQdNN_4_6SO34h-g2_jjOdxFsb9yabqW10uJ6GWoAD6KSpLKBliF8VuRsLMNT1W_4un2zbZBghhwG_z4S0_Gy\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"313\" \/><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Pageant Contact Information (Aleta):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>E: Aleta@MissBlackAmerica.com<\/p>\n<p>P: 202.705.5368<\/p>\n<p>W:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.missblackamerica.com\/\">www.missblackamerica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important;'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/caycomcreate.com_73423.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">Calynn Communications &#038; Creative<\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Calynn M Lawrence<br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=the-miss-black-america-pageant-yesterday-and-today-part-one\" rel=\"nofollow\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.caycomcreate.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.caycomcreate.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object type=\"text\/html\" data=\"http:\/\/www.caycomcreate.com\" style=\"width:900px; height:400px;\"><\/object><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=the-miss-black-america-pageant-yesterday-and-today-part-one\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Miss Black America Organization celebrates Juneteenth with an insightful message by Founder, J. Morris Anderson. The Emancipation Proclamation&nbsp; The Emancipation Proclamation freed American Slaves on January 1st, 1863, however, the last slaves to become aware of the proclamation which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/the-miss-black-america-pageant-yesterday-and-today-part-one_548680.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433,401,454,434,437],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Arts-Entertainment","category-Business","category-Celebrity","category-Fashion-Beauty","category-Lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/pressreleases\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}