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Wow… so long overdue… โค
Excellent
They apologized to her because Vanessa Williams became bigger than Miss America itself. Is Miss America even on TV anymore? When Vanessa Williams was crowned in 1983, the pageant was HUGE on NBC the Saturday after Labor Day. When is it on again?
About time! You are loved, Vanessa. ๐๐
Iโm just finished 4 part series I didnโt see the Vanessa williams apology part was that edited out?
Bri?? Her name is Sabrina zunich
Why am I crying right now? Vanessa Williams deserves this long overdue apology.
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Vanessa Williams deserves that apology
Wow
Did they give back her crown?
Yes, the organization should have taken her hair into consideration. But why didnt she try to get a brand deal with premium wig crafters?
I dont see why someone in her position would settle for cheap wigs.
Yesssss Vanessa Congratulations love๐๐๐. But the organization has to do better!!!
โคโคโคโคโคโคโคโคโคโคโคโคโค God is good
If you are vain enough to compete in objectification carnivals like this… You must expect that winning will mean your life and body will no longer be yours.
Omgโ thatโs honestly the saddest, most petty thing to ever put someone through. Her natural hair is GORGEOUS. How dare they tell her it was anything but.
I really hate the โwhite/pale/Atype-hair beauty standard.โ I legit do not understand it. C-type hair is so pretty, and some dark skin tones literally look otherworldlyโ so people are either blind or theyโre actually jealous of black people. Cause if they canโt have what they have, then destroy it, right? Period. ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
Black ladies, donโt damage your skin and hair for the sake of anyone else but yourself. If you want to perm your hairโ perm your hair. If you wanna bleach your skin, then bleach it. But know that you do not have to.
Same goes for pale ladies who think they need to tanโ you can stop giving yourself sun-cancer, hunny. But if you like itโ go off, sis but please use a lil UV protection (like 20-30%).๐๐ป
Yes! This was an amazing video. I'm so glad they apologized! We love you Vanessa
She should have never lost her crown
I was a junior in high school when Vanessa Williams and that year I won my first beauty pageant crown. I broke down when they removed hers because she was my example. I just didn't understand why over nudes. She was my example of living her life on her terms on becoming a successful human being. She lives unapologetic life. She didn't need their apology. โค
Itโs a honor to see Vanessa Williams up there. She was the most beautiful one then and she still beautiful. Now I cry for this painful moment to see it again shout out to you, Vanessa and your beautiful black woman.โค๐ข we go through so much and take the backseat so much for everyone. Stand up for who you are in the sad to hear what they put black women through disgraceful and distasteful.๐๐พ๐ค๐ฝ we shall overcome one day
This is awesome, I was always so disappointed for her. I typically don't watch pageants but what happened to Vanessa Williams was horrible. She sure showed them though. That was a case of domestic abuse. I โค Vanessa Williams.
This is the first time Iโve watched anything that is โMiss Americaโ since they took her crown !!!!! They broke my heart when I was pregnant with my first baby girl. It was because of Vanessa I learned that inter strength is forever lasting beauty โฃ๏ธ
Vanessa still looks sooo beautiful.
Well deserved ๐๐ It would've been nice if they given Vanessa Williams her title back
She got gigantic ๐ฎ
America demonized black hair and skin when all along it is the way the original humans were made in the image of God. Wooly hair and burnts skin. Demonizing black people has detroyed lives still is.
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I don't know if I agree with the apologies it's empty and doesn't fix anything. The standards were different, and society was content. As times goes on and society evolves we will be apologizing every 40 years for something that we thought was okay but the apology will only come after the perpetrators are long gone so the people who committed the wrong were never remorseful at all. What's done is done and it's an empty gesture.
Wow, that was really big of them to publicly apologize. They could have cowardly done it behind closed doors or not at all. Iโm glad Vanessa was able to get closure on that moment.
I don't know i just feel that it's pitiful that we fight tooth and nail to get into white people's circle. As if it's some kind of god like thing to achieve. The breaking barriers makes us look pathetic. As if fighting to fit in and accepted is something to strive for. While ar the same time. We neglect our own and don't see the value in us and our communities.
This is weird. There's clearly a narrative and an agenda at work here. This is nonsensical and just weird.
Vanessa Williams is a hero! ๐
Still kinda sideswiped there (1984) organizations actual responsibility. Mr. Haskel stated that she 'resigned' maybe technically right. It wasn't the truth underlying Ms. Williams situation . Yeah, she resigned under the threat of resign or be fired, your choice. I am glad for her anyway that she got some sort of public apology.
So what you are saying is if a white woman won she would have to get a fro every day? This hair issue is not an issue. This woman doesnโt need or deserve extra time for hair. She can wear a fro and be proud. Nobody said she had to wear a wig or weaves. Quit trying to look white. Go natural. Donโt be ashamed of your natural beauty. Crying about how white women have it easier is a sorry excuse.
Buy better wigs ffs, or go natural, or straighten.
How did you not anticipate this problem when you were preparing during the pageant?
"We're sorry! We just weren't tainted by the media and perverts yet! Now we are, so …sorry!"
WONDERFUL! ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐๐พ๐จ๐ฆ
Hair cuttery?
I CLEARLY REMEMBERED THAT A BROWN WOMAN CAN BE MISS AMERICA SHE BECAME MY IDOL
So, stuck up people didn't want to embrace someone who was different from them. That is quite disappointing.
Black women – yeah yeah yeah. Well any woman really – you're all lovely. Signed True Heterosexual Man.
Pfft with all the crazy stuff women are doing these days M.A. is going to wish it was just nudie pics. It's going to be more like M.A. rides a Dragon dilrod, fisting prolapse with Ms. Hands or M.A. runner-up and 1 cup…
Onlyfans isn't going anywhere my dudes ๐๐๐๐
So Vanessa's then husband, Rick Fox, was playing for the Lakers in the playoffs, and I think he was fouled and went to the line, and the subsequent commentary mentioned that Rick was married to Vanessa Williams, proving that the NBA wasn't the only major league in which he played. Costas nailed it, and Doug Collins was laughing so hard he couldn't speak. Of course, Vanessa was a Syracuse alum, as was Bob Costas, and the moment forever cemented all of them as even bigger legends than anyone might've imagined.
Every time that I looked at her I never made it as far as her hair.
The apology brought tears ๐ขton my eyes! โคโคโคโค I love Vanessa, who is such a beautiful woman!!!!!
The African American women are so pretty โคโคโค
Beautiful & thank God there was an apology!!
I understand not having a "hollywood" hair stylist in every town but buying a wig at a random store? so you book travel for some appearance and you don't go prepared…
That's all that matters!