Meet your new Miss America 2019

[frejasface]

https://instagram.com/p/BniK6DNFi1m
Wait, the Miss America pagaent is still around

Comments

[evett]

#MissMichigan just said: “From a state with 84% of the US fresh water but none for its residents to drink...”
Clearly this is not your mother’s Miss America pageant. #MissAmerica2019 pic.twitter.com/VsYvFK2GQM
- Jim DeFede (@DeFede) September 10, 2018

[allfourone]

wow good for her!

[valentineballad]

I was living for this. Fuck that POS Snyder and his cronies.

[talks_alot02]

Poor Miss Minnesota having to follow up that. What do you say? "We have a lot of shoreline!" lol

But, in all seriousness, good for Miss Michigan!

[clickyraptor]

Something about fresh water and ruining it with greedy copper sulfide mining.

[zoaster_toaster]

I was hoping someone mentioned this awesome moment.

[littlelistmaker]

that's really great of her.

[loveumbrella]

damn miss michigan LET THEM KNOW

[rhenna_navi]

lol at this embarrassing publicity attempt

[pikapika217]

but her state literally doesn't have water for the residents to drink and she was highlighting it.

[rhenna_navi]

Literally? no, the issue isn't lack of water it's lead pipes, if you live in the US you're pretty much guaranteed to be drinking out of lead pipes, FYI.

[pikapika217]

I just don't get why you're picking this apart. She isn't the only one trying to highlight the flint water crisis and why not do so on a national stage? Was she not leveraging her privilege in a proper way??

[rhenna_navi]

Because she's not doing anything for Flint, It comes off to me as her exploiting the crisis to make a dramatic statement to get attention and also throwing her state under the bus. Like wow, she did such a great job at helping! Real change!

[pikapika217]

I don't know - she's a resident of michigan & would naturally be affected by this. While I get wanting to be wary that take feels a bit like projection

[rhenna_navi]

lol no, 95% of Michiganders aren't affected by what's happening in Flint like at all, you honestly think everyone in MI is drinking bottled water? I'd be willing to bet she's some rich daughter from Bloomfield Hills.

[pikapika217]

this still feels like you projecting but ok.