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Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:22 am**

Congrats to Rima Fakih, the first Arab-American woman to win the Miss USA crown. Miss Fakih is from Dearborn, MI. Go Mich Again!!

http://tv.yahoo.com/the-2010-miss-usa-p ... s_miss_usa

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 11:44 am**

I.m sure the Taliban are very happy today.
sha-la-la-la-la-la-la BOOM
Why do we continue to label people by race ???
Why cant she just be an AMERICAN WOMAN ???
( may be a song in there somewhere )
I guess I'm the first German-Bohemian-English American Man to ask that question.

Give me a freakin prize.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 12:34 pm**

Please! Is the reason that she won due to her heritage? If not, then selebrate her individuality & her personal beauty. Otherwise, it just looks like we're pandering to a ppl that we could easilly defeat, & it's beneath us to do so.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 12:36 pm**

Actually she's of Lebanese decent, nowhere near the Taliban (Afghanistan). Not all people of Arab heritage are terrorists.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 12:46 pm**

Oh! Then we've already defeated them!

:lol:

I don't get why such a big deal is made over one's roots. Are we celebrating her race, her state, or her person?

Wtg, MI, arabs & the parents of Rima!

Oh yeah...kudos to her as well...it almost seems an afterthought...

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 1:14 pm**

Yeah, I'm glad for her, I guess, if that's what she wants.
Sure it will make her prosperous even though she was most likely born into money to start with.
( the title Miss USA crown is not cheap to purchase )
I just detest all this hyphenated American bullshit.
If being just AMERICAN is not good enough for you, just get the hell out.

Of course I also detest "beauty contests".
Such a determent to the female gender.

All hail the mighty pole dancer. :roll:

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 1:43 pm**

Why would anyone describe a Miss America or Miss USA contestant by
nameing America as their secondary country? Wasn't she born here?

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 2:15 pm**

No Klug, she was born in Lebanon and brought to USA when a baby. She was raised in NYC and moved to Michigan in 2003.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 2:35 pm**

I am so disappointed by the link...

How can you have a news article about Miss USA and NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF THE WOMAN!!!

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 3:24 pm**

Ok, Thanks JD. I still don't believe in calling anyone a Black American, Asian American, Whatever American. Seems to me like seperating Americans usually just starts some kind of trouble. Seperating ourselves within feeds the US and Them mentality. Unity can be our strongest asset if it becomes a reality.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 3:31 pm**

ColorsFade wrote:I am so disappointed by the link...

How can you have a news article about Miss USA and NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF THE WOMAN!!!

Here you go bud:

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 3:56 pm**

KLUGMO wrote:Ok, Thanks JD. I still don't believe in calling anyone a Black American, Asian American, Whatever American. Seems to me like seperating Americans usually just starts some kind of trouble. Seperating ourselves within feeds the US and Them mentality. Unity can be our strongest asset if it becomes a reality.

It would be no different if she was born in Ireland or anywhere else and emmigrated to the US. The prefix tells the reader the person was born in another country and moved here. What is unnecessary is keeping the prefix even though you were born here. For example, most black people in the US are not African-Americans; their great-grandparents might have been but after several generations they should just be called Americans. This kind of labeling is divisive.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 4:20 pm**

I agree.

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 4:47 pm**

jsantos wrote:
ColorsFade wrote:I am so disappointed by the link...

How can you have a news article about Miss USA and NOT HAVE A PICTURE OF THE WOMAN!!!

Here you go bud:

Okay, she's not Arab-American.

She's Hot-American...

Posted: **Mon May 17, 2010 4:57 pm**

ColorsFade wrote:
Okay, she's not Arab-American.

She's Hot-American...

Yeah she's xX t3h 53ch5y! Xx.. I dated a girl from Jordan when I lived in Paris while attending school there, same look and build. Honestly, I find beautiful women in every race.