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Beauty queen's sordid social media past comes to light as she's booted from Miss USA
Racism Wasn’t the Surprise. Exposure Was.The Source, BrieflyNorth Carolina’s Miss USA entrant, Brittany Boltinhouse, was stripped of her title after resurfaced social media posts showed her using anti-Black slurs between 2017 and 2019. A Blaize Productions and the Miss USA organization said they reviewed the material, consulted each other, and removed her despite her apology.Who Actually Had PowerThe real authority in this story was not the contestant, and not the apology. It was the pageant apparatus: A Blaize Productions, the Miss USA Organization, and Thom Brodeur, who decided whether…
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