This Miss USA combines brains, beauty and an independent mind
Kára McCullough won Sunday’s Miss USA pageant. But some who’d been cheering for her changed their minds when she outed herself as an independent thinker.
A 25-year-old black scientist who works at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, she won fans early on with those bare facts — plus the proud way she wore her natural curls rather than straightening her hair.
But then came the Q & A, where she said she doesn’t call herself a feminist or see health insurance as a basic human right.
“As a government employee, I’m granted health care and I see first-hand that for one to have health care, you need to have jobs,” she said, suggesting the answer is to “cultivate this environment [so] that we’re given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs.”
Then the Miss District of Columbia said, “I don’t want to call myself a feminist. Women, we are just as equal as men, especially in the workplace.”
(Later, she clarified: “We’ve come a long way, and there is more work to be done. . . I do believe that we will become equal one day.”)
That shocked some viewers. Tweets included, “Dang, I wanted Miss D.C. to win but I’m sorry affordable health care is not a privilege.”
And: “A brown girl won #MissUSA but she thinks affordable healthcare is a privilege and feminism is man-hate so she’s cancelled #ByeGirl.”
Others told McCullough, who has a BS in chemistry with a concentration in radiochemistry, to check her privilege.
By disappointing the social-justice warriors, McCullough proved she’s not only beautiful and smart, but ready to speak her mind — in other words, a true queen.
http://nypost.com/2017/05/15/this-miss-usa-combines-brains-beauty-and-an-independent-mind/
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