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News: After Japan a black girl wins Finland pageant and get racist taunts

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After Japan a black girl wins Finland pageant and get racist taunts

All hell was let loose when a black lady, Sephora Ikalaba, 19, won the 2017 Miss Helsinski Pageant, in Finland.

According to a report by lisaalamode.com, it’s 2017 and still Blackness remains and affront to the majority. While many of us have taken the reigns to change the current narrative around what is beautiful, many people still believe in, and uphold the European standard of beauty.

If you believed racism to be an American problem you were sadly mistaken.

A similar incident happened in Japan, when 20 years old Ariana Miyamoto was crowned Miss Universe Japan in 2015.

Miyamoto spent her first media appearance after winning het title apologizing for her identity.

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According to atqnews.com, Miyamoto is born to a Japanese mother and an African-American father. Miyamoto is haafu, or biracial — a fact that did not sit well with some residents of one of the least ethnically diversenations in the world.

Miyamoto was born and raised in Sasebo, a town in Japan’s Nagasaki prefecture, grew up in the country and speaks the language fluently. But while many have celebrated Miyamoto’s historic victory, there has also been a thread of criticism suggesting the beauty queen is not “Japanese enough.”

For Ikalaba, angry Finns took to their twitter handles to vent their anger for winning the pageant.

 

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Gabreil January 12, 2017 - 11:48 pm

This is to all African, people particularly politicians it’s time to stop complaining about racesim
Against African and Africa
We have beautiful skin and beautiful Continent but we don’t respect each other we don’t work together if we start believing on ourselves and care about each other we have enormous natural resources they need Africa Africa doesn’t need them therefore let’s stop complaining and start working together and united for developing Africa and restoring self respect and self reliance it can be done no more excuses for African politicians

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