24-year-old Genesis Davila won Miss Florida USA on July 16 2016, but her crown was taken away six days later by the peagant director, who accused her of cheating based on a picture she uploaded on her Instagram page in days before the competition. She is now former Miss Florida USA.(Sad right?).
The crown "Miss Teen USA, has since been given to an 18-year-old Karlie Ha, she has retained her crown amid calls that she be relieved of it following the discovery of several controversial tweets wherein she repeatedly used racial slurs.
But there’s another key factor influencing the very different fates of these two beauty queens: race. Dávila is Puerto Rican–American and identifies as Afro-Puerto Rican; Hay is white. And since the Miss Florida pageant and the Miss Teen USA pageant are both linked to the same larger world pageant organization, the Miss Universe pageant (although pageants at the state level operate independently from the Miss Universe organization), the racial element has some spectators questioning whether the pageant industry’s overall lack of diversity is the real issue.
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