Tagged: 2014
Nina Davuluri Crowned Miss America and Brushes Off the Haters
Source: USA Today
Social media was abuzz overnight in the wake of Nina Davuluri being crowned as Miss America 2014.
And a lot of the tweets were attacks on the fact that she is the first woman of Indian descent to win the pageant and wear the crown.
She was referred to as “the Arab,” by some and other commenters noted “This is America, not India.” One called her “Miss 7-11.”
There were those who huffed about it being inappropriately close to 9/11.
Some mentioned ties to al-Qaeda and at least one flat-out called her a terrorist.
Buzzfeed collected many of them. Some have already been deleted.- Read the full story