First Indian American crowned Miss America
buzzz worthy. . .
One New Yorker passed the Miss America crown to another as the first Indian American, Nina Davuluri became Miss America 2014 in Atlantic City, NJ on September 15, 2013. Mallory Hagan won Miss America in 2013 (R). Miss California Crystal Lee (L) looks on in excitement. Racist automatically rushed online and hid behind Twitter making slurs about her ethnicity and being connected to terrorism and convenience stores. Davuluri, whose father is a doctor ignored the ignorance: “I have to rise above that,” she said. “I always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”
One New Yorker passed the Miss America crown to another as the first Indian American, Nina Davuluri became Miss America 2014 in Atlantic City, NJ on September 15, 2013. Mallory Hagan won Miss America in 2013 (R). Miss California Crystal Lee (L) looks on in excitement. Racist automatically rushed online and hid behind Twitter making slurs about her ethnicity and being connected to terrorism and convenience stores. Davuluri, whose father is a doctor ignored the ignorance: “I have to rise above that,” she said. “I always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”
