Crowning of first non-black Miss HU divides campus

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HAMPTON — Hampton University crowned its first non-black Miss HU Friday, leading to a division on campus that prompted her to write President Barack Obama.

Nikole Churchill, 22, competed against nine black students in the 15th annual Miss HU scholarship pageant. The senior nursing major attends the Virginia Beach campus and is the competition's first non-black winner, according to executive pageant director Shelia J. Maye.

Churchill, who is from Hawaii, wrote Obama on Sunday to tell him that her crowning was met with negative comments because of her skin color. She invited him to visit HU and speak about racial tolerance.

In a local television report, she said her father is from Guam and her mother is Italian.

Journalism sophomore Juan Diasgranados said the Hampton campus is split on Churchill's crowning, with everyone from students to faculty and professors weighing in. Some are saying her win is great and embodies HU's spirit of diversity, he said, while others complain that she's not black and doesn't attend the main campus.

"They're saying that people don't know who she is, people don't even see her, so how can she represent us if she's not even from the main campus?"

The main campus has about 5,700 students while the university's Virginia Beach campus has about 90 students.

Maye said the crowning of a non-black student is a great milestone for HU and that she's shocked by the amount of attention it's garnered.

"We have all kinds of people on our campus, we are not in a cocoon," she said. "As far as I'm concerned we need to get her ready to serve HU and to move on and represent us at Miss Virginia."

Churchill told the news station at Saturday's Hampton versus Howard University football game that her mother is 100 percent Italian and her father is from Guam. In her letter to the president, she called herself Hawaiian.

Arthur A. Turner Jr., a 1982 graduate who lives in Prince George's County, Md., received an e-mail about her win and said he disagrees with those complaining that Churchill isn't black and doesn't attend the main campus.

"She represents the entirety of the university, the alumni, the faculty, the staff, the students," Turner said. "All of that is on her shoulders, including the Virginia Beach and main campus. I am confident she will do an extremely good job of representing us."

Turner added that the alumni of his era that he's spoken with fully support Churchill and the change she brought to HU's tradition.

"We now have to move forward in our thinking because the world is different, America is different, and we have all been fighting for change," he said. "And as we continue that fight, we must be accepting of the things that we fight for."

Churchill is not the first non-black student to be crowned at a historically black college. In April, Kentucky State University student Elisabeth Martin won the 80th homecoming queen election, making her the first white student to win.

She too experienced some negativity on campus and gossip online, she said in an interview with The ( Frankfort, Ky.) State-Journal. Some people told her that she can't relate to the experience of black women, but Martin said that as a woman, she knows what women go through.
 
Basically, the question is should a white girl represent an HBCU?

A lot of people have been blowing this story up on Twitter and Facebook :smh:

Personally, hey, reverse discrimination is still discrimination...more power to her :yes:
 
I have more of a problem of her being a commuter student than her being white.

She's not even a real student to speak on and represent Hampton IMO. You go to class in Va Beach and go home. You might have a few classes on the main campus, and you probably don't go to any university activities. :dunno:
 
Do the men out number the women at hampton? only some coon ass niggas would vote this shit. You gotta have mad self hate to vote a white guido queen at a HBCU.
 
Do the men out number the women at hampton? only some coon ass niggas would vote this shit. You gotta have mad self hate to vote a white guido queen at a HBCU.

The pageant winner isn't voted on my students...

Typically, representatives from the campus, and outside officials vote on the winner. I highly doubt any students would vote for the white girl...
 
The pageant winner isn't voted on my students...

Typically, representatives from the campus, and outside officials vote on the winner. I highly doubt any students would vote for the white girl...

Then this shit was a publicity stunt. The University cooked this shit up to get attention and to try to get Obama to come to the school. some shameful shit.
 
Basically, the question is should a white girl represent an HBCU?

A lot of people have been blowing this story up on Twitter and Facebook :smh:

Personally, hey, reverse discrimination is still discrimination...more power to her :yes:
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:lol: :lol: :lol: Those chix are SALTY!!!! :lol:

They're looking SALTY:lol:

:roflmao::roflmao2:

HELLZ YEAH Damn White People at these HBCU know way more about black people than....well most black people who don't go to HBCU's

I am just saying it's not like she is some surfer girl

skin color don't mean much these days
 
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If her dad is from Guam, and mom is Italian, isn't she, like, Pacific Islander or something?!? :confused:
 
I have more of a problem of her being a commuter student than her being white.

She's not even a real student to speak on and represent Hampton IMO. You go to class in Va Beach and go home. You might have a few classes on the main campus, and you probably don't go to any university activities. :dunno:

hey, if i pay the same tuition as the main campus students i should have the same rights and access to student activities.
 
Long time member u fuckin pussy Go buy montana some more diapers cocksucker

GET YO BROKE NON-PAYING ASS OFF THE BOARD. YO OPINION MEANS LESS THAN NOTHING BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE FIT TO DROP A MEASLY ASS $10 FOR A BOARD YOU OBVIOUSLY CAN'T LEAVE.

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Lol @ the two lemon heads to the right of her.

:lol::lol:

Same thing I'm trippin' on fam... do they have to make it so obvious?

I mean... if she won fair and square, what's the big deal? :dunno:

She can enroll, so she should have the opportunity to run for and win whatever she wants, regardless of her skin color... right?
 
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1. She ain't white.
2. She looks way better than those other buttafaces in the pic with her.
3. Bitches always gonna hate. I guarantee no black male students are hating.
4. Hampton University ain't hitting on shit. I visited it on a trip to VA once.
 
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