Well It Would Seem That France Also Has It's Equality Problems.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248200/White-snow-Miss-France-beauty-queen-gets-caught-racism-row-catfight-previous-winner.html

/// The Representative Council of Black Associations (CRAN) denounced medical student Marine Lorphelin, 19, for being 'as white as snow' and criticised the lack of black and Arab contestants. ///

Surely they weren't barred fro entering the competition? seeing that:

/// Miss Lorphelin saw off competition from 32 other finalist - eight from ethnic minorities and six of those from France's Pacific and Caribbean territories - to win the crown last weekend. ///

[emmie]

she has had a lot of work done, how is that fair.

[pdq1]

Using reverse discrimination to pick an inferior contestant would never work on the bigger stage such as miss World.

[anotheoldgit]

em10

/// she has had a lot of work done, how is that fair. ///

And you don't think that most of Models, Film Stars, etc, have the same type of work carried out on their bodies, after all their bodies are their stock in trade.

But maybe, so as to be seen to be fair, perhaps they should all appear with no make-up, along spots and all?

[Duncer]

If they have better looking girls than her over there, then they are very lucky indeed; she is quite stunning. Less to do with racism and more to do with bitchiness and sour grapes I suspect?

As her "bitter rival" was a previous winner it would seem to make their accusations of racism moot, as would the number of ethnic contestants.

[FredPuli43]

What "lot of work done"? In a chat show, she was asked about a small scar on her nose. She said it was where a growth had been removed when she was an adolescent. No doubt her bitchy rivals were saying that she had had her nose remodelled and the scar was evidence of that.

(CRAN is not France's finest example of a calm, logical, body that only sees and pursues genuine and reasonable grievances)