Cultural history will be made tonight in a college town in southern Virginia when a lissome 22-year-old student in a tiara hosts a car show and singing contest modelled on American Idol. Nikole Churchill will look good, and on the evidence of the past few days will handle the microphone with aplomb.
However, she will have to be ready for hecklers. She is the first non-black Homecoming Queen in her university’s history and not everyone is happy that she won the title. Her victory this month triggered a beauty pageant walkout and veiled accusations of black racism from the aggrieved new Miss Hampton University. She also wrote a long public letter to President Obama, saying: “I feel as though you could relate to my situation.”
Hampton University, at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, is one of more than 80 historically black colleges in the US whose student populations are only gradually coming to reflect the diversity they exist to promote, largely because non-blacks have been slow to apply to them.
Ms Churchill was hardly known to the university’s main student body until she made the shortlist of ten contestants for a title that involves a year of public duties. A panel of five judges named her the winner after a two-hour pageant in which she spoke of the importance of mentoring girls on self-esteem and “body image”, and performed a Hawaiian hula in a pink-and-white swimsuit.
First off the other contestants are just mean spirited.
Look at the two contestants above pushing out their lips. Stupid girls! Get a grip!!!
And Nikole didn’t need to go as far as writing a long letter to President Obama. That’s just ridiculous! What can he do??? How can Obama relate to your situation???
War Song is the first video clip taken from the up and coming film 1 Day, whichis set on the ‘mean’ streets of Birmingham.
1 Day will be released in cinemas on the November 6th 2009. However I am guessing that this film will only be released in “select” cinemas… but I could be wrong. Please feel free to correct me producers if I am in fact wrong.
A US sheriff has said the case of six-year-old Falcon Heene who was believed to be adrift in a hot air balloon, prompting a major alert, was a hoax.
Sheriff Jim Alderden said the parents of the boy were actors and had put on a “good show for us, and we bought it”.
Falcon’s disappearance became a media drama, but he was later found at home.
Sheriff Alderden said as yet there had been no arrests but possible charges included conspiracy and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Continue Reading….
The parents need to be prosecuted ASAP!
I feel sorry for the children. Their parents are both sick in the head!
The Virgin Media website reports that Elvis Presley’s grandson has just landed a $5 million deal with the world’s biggest record company Universal Music, to make up to five albums.
17-year-old Benjamin Presley Keough says his music will be “nothing like Elvis at all.”
Does this kid even possess any real talent? Has he put in the ground work and managed to build a solid fan base?
I’m guessing NOT!!!
Universal Music clearly still have money to throw away in an age when the music industry is struggling to stay afloat.
I didn’t think multi-million dollar recording deals like this existed anymore. But I guess anything is possible when you’re Elvis Presley’s grandson.
I feel so sorry for 6 year old Falcon aka Balloon Boy. Falcon vomited in two separate interviews today while answering questions on whether yesterday’s incident was a hoax.
His parents should be ashamed of themselves! They are liars!
For those of you who missed this strange news story, please click here to read all about yesterday’s shenanigans involving a 6 year old boy and a home made hot-air balloon….
Now watch the videos below.
In my opinion the parents are damn liars.
The family had previously appeared on the US TV version of Wife Swap and the parents probably fell in love with life in the media spotlight during that period. So much so that they then decided to orchestrate yesterday’s incident to generate media attention on themselves again and it worked.
A white US justice of the peace has been criticised for refusing to issue marriage licences to mixed-race couples.
Keith Bardwell, of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana, denied racism but said mixed-race children were not readily accepted by their parents’ communities.
A couple he refused to marry is considering filing a complaint about him to the US Justice Department.
Mr Bardwell said he had many black friends and frequently married them.
He said he had “piles and piles of black friends” but just did not believe in “mixing the races”.
“They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else,” he said. Continue Reading….
Is this man for real???? What an IDIOT!!!
But then again this happened in America’s deep South so I shouldnt even be that surprised.
I would LOVE to meet the “piles and piles of black friends” that Mr Bardwell claims to have. The “piles and piles of black friends” that are allowed to enter his home and use his bathroom.