{"id":3063,"date":"2019-07-23T21:48:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3063"},"modified":"2019-07-23T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T01:50:41","slug":"ex-miss-michigan-says-pageant-dethroned-her-for-conservative-views-for-refusing-to-put-on-a-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafe.nfshost.com\/?p=3063","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Miss Michigan says pageant dethroned her for conservative views & For Refusing to Put On a Hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ex-Miss Michigan says pageant dethroned her for conservative views & For Refusing to Put On a Hijab<\/span><\/h1>\n
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Kathy Zhu<\/span> <\/span> @PoliticalKathy<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others https:\/\/<\/span>twitter.com\/enndelbu\/status\/917080495250223104\u00a0<\/span>\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n
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Enndelbu<\/span> <\/span> @Enndelbu<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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(CNN)<\/cite>The woman stripped of her Miss Michigan 2019 tiara for tweets that the pageant’s organizers found offensive said Monday she stands by everything she says on social media, despite having apparently deleted one of the posts in question.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Kathy Zhu, a University of Michigan student and vice president of the school’s College Republicans, had her crown taken the day after it was placed on her head last week.<\/div>\n
“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,” she tweeted Thursday.<\/div>\n
In her response to Miss World America officials, which she shared on Twitter<\/a>, she says the organization has fallen for “photoshopped tweets” and that “a girl” has been targeting her “because she had grievances against me.”<\/div>\n
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‘We do have a problem’<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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The beauty queen posted a chain of text messages<\/a> that she said she had exchanged with Laurie DeJack, state director for Miss World America Michigan.<\/div>\n
In them, DeJack says she needs to talk to Zhu and instructs her not to post anything to social media.<\/div>\n
“Do not go out representing Michigan World America. We do have a problem,” one text says.<\/div>\n
Zhu pleads for more information. Eventually, Zhu is told her social posts are problematic. She is provided a link to a post in which she wrote, “Did you know the majority of black deaths are caused by other blacks? Fix problems within your own community first before blaming others.”<\/div>\n
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“How is that racist?” Zhu asks before texting, “It’s statistics” and “Didn’t know statistics were racist.”<\/div>\n
DeJack disagrees, according to the texts posted by Zhu: “That is not a statistic. It’s a comment with no statistics to back it up.”<\/div>\n
Zhu says she will come by DeJack’s house to drop off her crown and sash and accuses DeJack of believing “false claims” rather than sticking up for the state pageant winner.<\/div>\n
“Maybe you should read a educational journal on the statistics of blacks killing other blacks … I go to school for this … I’ll save you the chance to lose this political debate. I’ll be dropping off everything at your front door,” Zhu says over three texts.<\/div>\n
CNN’s efforts to obtain comment from DeJack and other Miss World America officials were unsuccessful. DeJack referred questions to the Miss World America national office. CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the emails and texts posted by Zhu.<\/div>\n
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