Miss Black America

And I think a lot of really successful people, like the way that they find of dealing with that is through success.

And yeah, you know like in the same way that like addicts will use a substance to deal with that feeling but like somebody who's just a rocket a straight line upward rocket ship of success like oh you kind of never had to deal with that your bullshit kind of you know you had to like you you're able to just sort of continue to be more and more and more successful um which she she certainly had that As a teenager, so she came up in the pageant world, and specifically Miss Black Nashville, Miss Black Tennessee, and also went on to compete for Miss Black America, which was a pageant that was launched in protest of the Miss America pageant, which until 1950 mandated that its contestants, quote, must be of good health and of the white race.

So...

That's the world that she's coming up in.

So it must have been a rough week in your house.

I mean, two formers, former Miss Black America, former United States Champion.

You didn't just say that.

And of course, the problems with Boogeyman and the Worms as of late.

it again and Booker T is living.

I can't wait for WrestleMania.

Sharmell's a former Miss Black America for God's sake.

I don't care what she is.

Pageants also had the reputation of being rather exclusionary.

It was not until the Civil Rights era that Miss Black America was created in 1968, and it would be another 15 years until a woman of color won the Miss America pageant when Vanessa Williams was crowned in 1983.

And that is a little information on pageants in America.

Ooh, can I add one little detail to that? Colby, what you left out is sometimes the snow comes down in June.