Emilie,
Thanks for your comment on the Beauty Pageant. Let me use this medium to
tell the public,especially the African Community,that we are not going to
show off any cloth of female. We,the organizing committee of the program
decided not to let the girls use swimming suits in the program. The critics
are not asking questions so they will not get the ansewrs they need.

Thanks.

Kervin Soko
Organizing Committee
2003 Miss Liberia Wisconsin






>From: Emilie Ngo Nguidjol <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: "AAM (African Association of Madison)"
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>Subject: Re: NO LIBERIAN BEAUTY PAGEANT
>Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 13:48:39 -0500
>
>Cherie Coco,
>
>Wan--da--fool!
>
>More grease to your elbow! You can come live with us. Oh no, this is
>America, Aggo can leave the house if he is not happy.
>
>Before comparing beauty pageants to fashion shows and African rituals, Aggo
>forgot that most of the former are organized by men, staged with male
>judges looking for standards of beauty that have done nothing but cause
>harm to girls and women and cause men (off course not all of them) to
>accept women based on appearance rather than the content of their person.
>The
>few times I've watched beauty pageants on TV, I've played this mental game
>of "what if." And the game consists of just reversing the roles where the
>women contestants become the judges. The question that pops in my mind is
>whether it's ever occurred to these men to apply the criteria for beauty on
>themselves. All the participants (women contestants and men judges) are
>obviously not on an
>equal footing. Moreover, the whole idea is too alienating and divisive.
>
>As Africans, especially Africans away from home, I'm not sure we
>necessarily need to mimic everything our hosts / friends / do. There is
>more to lose in it for us than for them. I'm all for fundraising and
>community development and Progress. But please, let's seek activities and
>themes that elevate us. We didn't come this far to stoop so low in the name
>of a few bucks.
>
>Also, I applaud LAW for officially taking a stand as leaders of the
>Liberian community here. You do us proud.
>
>--Emilie
>
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