Nina Davuluri has become the first woman of Indian descent to win the title of Miss America. Running her platform on a campaign of cultural diversity, Davuluri celebrated her Indian heritage by performing an Indian classical-Bollywood fusion dance that dazzled judges and Americans alike — well, except for those Americans who saw it as some sort of al Qaeda terrorist voodoo witch dance. Those Americans were disappointed:
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Other racists realized that India is not in the Middle East, I guess?
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And in case you think the racism is limited to just a few people on Twitter — nope, the viewpoint is of course legitimated by “Fox News’s” Todd Starnes, who describes what “real America” is like:
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Comedians took the opportunity to point out how illogical it all was, because, yay America!
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And, racists, just so you know — a Lebanese-American woman named Rima Fakih already won the Miss USA title. In 2010.
But Davuluri won’t let this taint her victory, saying, “I have to rise above that. I always viewed myself as first and foremost American.”
