Mickey McElya
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374 appearances
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 3 Aug
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And when Vanessa Williams performs –
Suzette Charles is the first runner-up to Miss America, also an African-American contestant.
And she becomes, when Vanessa Williams is forced to resign, she becomes Miss America.
Right.
And to remind people, 10 months into her reign, Penthouse publishes nude photos of Vanessa Williams, and they had been taken years earlier.
published without her consent.
They were rushed to print to cash in on her being Miss America.
And the pageant at the time does not defend her.
They go on just a few years ago to give a public apology.
But at the time, this whole thing devours her.
And I'm curious what you think, what does that moment reveal about this larger story that you're telling?
Immediately, it suggests how tenuous
that power claimed through that moment of integrating the pageant can be and how quick.
One really has to wonder if it were not the first black Miss America who was confronting this situation, would the pageant have been so quick to fully reject her?
I was around five or six years old when this happened, but I distinctly remember, and it only comes from me meditating on it from reading this, that after that happened with Vanessa Williams, I remember thinking I felt so sorry for her.
I felt so scared, but I also remember feeling like, oh, I have to be excellent.
I can't make any mistakes in this lifetime.
It wasn't a conscious thought.
It was just a feeling of understanding that, oh, like, things can turn very quickly.
A mistake can ruin your life.
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