Trump Supporter Miss Michigan Responds to the Stripping of Her Crown Over Charges of Racism & Islamophobia

As covered by RedState’s Bonchie, Miss Michigan was stripped of her Miss World America crown this week. The reason? She’s allegedly racist, insensitive, and Islamophobic.

See for yourself — I encourage you to read all of the below:

Miss World America’s State/National/Chief Director accused me of being racist, Islamaphobic, and insensitive.

They stripped me of my Miss Michigan title due to my refusal to try on a hijab in 2018, my tweet about black on black gun violence, and “insensitive” statistical tweets. pic.twitter.com/K1Btho0Pgq

— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) July 19, 2019

Kathy Zhu is…brace yourself, because I’m about to use this term accurately and apolitically, which you may not have heard in a while…an immigrant.

Her family moved to the U.S. when she was 5.

But the minority immigrant has been attacked online.

The smearing by the liberal media begins @MailOnline pic.twitter.com/qaHnI1gZ9p

— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) July 20, 2019

What’s disgraceful to our race is that you’re not allowing a 20 year old woman to think for herself. https://t.co/lIZYJ5ATv1

— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) July 21, 2019

In response, Kathy posted a video via social media.

Here’s some of what she had to say:

“I just want to say thank you for all your support. It’s been a heck of a two days, honestly. Yesterday I was crying when I first saw the messages and emails from the organization, but today is a new day, and today was amazing.”

Kathy noted the news story really is a tale of discrimination, but not as Miss World America believes:

“I’m so glad the story got brought into the public eye and the media because this is so much bigger than pageantry; this is about an organization discriminating against people with different opinions, calling people ‘racist’ even when they’re not.”

Kathy’s into words:

“Little attacks like those really, really diminish the value and the truth of the word ‘racism.’ There shouldn’t just be diversity of skin color, there should be diversity of thought, of mindset, of political affiliation.”

Say it ain’t so!

She’s also that worst of all creatures: a Trump supporter.

The left goes crazy when they see a Chinese-America supporting our president.

I came to America when I was 5.
My parents and I left our country to come to a place where there are better opportunities, better schools, and the chance to live the American Dream.

— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) July 20, 2019

But Kathy’s proud to take up the mantle:

“I’m so glad to be the voice for this right now and I hope that other pageant organizations could really learn from this story and the situation, to not discriminate with others based on opinions. Don’t worry, I’ll still stand firm, stand my ground. I’m still going to continue to fight for what I believe in.”

Watch the full video below, and let us all know what you think in the Comments section.

We’ve reached a very strange place when politics reaches this deeply into a beauty pageant.

Thank you pic.twitter.com/quEC4ibjCp

— Kathy Zhu (@PoliticalKathy) July 19, 2019

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