Crowning of first non-black Miss Hampton University divides campus

EBC wrote:

EVERYONE needs to get over this "skin color" issue. It's beginning to stifle their judgement.
Everyone talks about HOW they want to be judged by their character and integrity and yet, these very same folks quibble over what skin color a person.
GET OVER IT. So WHAT if Miss Churchill is NOT black? African Americans do NOT have the monopoly on who is BLACK ENOUGH and WHO ISN'T. African Americans are the only culture who discriminates against EACH OTHER based on skin color. How ignorant is that? If you're high-yelllow, your not black enough, if you are dark black, your TOO black.
African Americans should feel blessed that we have a vast variations of black skin tones in our culture, but instead, we DISCRIMINATE and ATTACK each other. Racism is also very ALIVE within the African American population. We do it to ourselves, each other, our children, our friends, our relatives AND then get upset with other cultures call us out on it. GOD made each and everyone of us for a special reason and until we STOP all this fussing over what a person's skin color is, the African American population will continue to discriminate and destroy their own race and culture.
It's time Blacks realize that being BLACK doesn't give you the right to dictate who is "black enough or not black enough". The only person who has that right is GOD himself. I don't know about you....
But I'm black and I'm PROUD as hell to be black. I'm proud of you whether you're white, orange, brown, yellow, or whatever. Life is too freaking SHORT to be fussing over something as stupid as this.
Congrats goes out to Miss Churchill.

hu grad student wrote:

I currently attend Hampton U. and i must say that I am happy for the young lady, i believe the real issue is the fact that she attends a satellite campus. The students at the other campus have no dealings with regular students on campus. the queen is meant to be the face of the student body, not someone that will be disconnected. I am a grad student on campus and i know how disconnected other grad students and myself are from other students. There is no way a student at a satellite campus can really represent the student body accurately regardless of the color of her skin.

Fed Up wrote:

Just another example of reverse racism.

Mike wrote:

It's not voted on because black people are racist they always vote for the black candidate no matter what. And they are ignorant look at any country in Africa run by them for proof compared to European Countries and USA/Canada, we don't have maleria and run around in diapers with sticks after animals. We have a president that is undeserving but won because Hillary and the other Candidates who have proven experience were not black. Now he has ran the deficit higher in one year than even Bush in his 8 all together did and Bush started 2 wars that is sad but what happens when someone with no experience becomes president. People need to wake up, how long will it go on that blacks can have there own universitys and college funds but it will be racist for whites and most other races. They are good at using people and getting welfare and whats sad is Americas whites have became stupid enough to let them. They are the downfall of society, look like I said at any of there countries they are never civilized, look at inner citys or any prodoment black community. High violence and many ppl who won't work. Alot of crack being sucked by those big nasty black lips.