The Miss World America organization has stripped its Michigan pageant winner of her title after tweets she made about Muslims and African-Americans surfaced online.
Kathy Zhu was crowned Miss Michigan last week. She's a University of Michigan conservative activist who's active with a group called Chinese Americans for Trump. In since-deleted tweets from the last two years, Zhu alluded to Muslim women wearing hijabs as "being oppressed under Islam" and disparaged black people for "black on black crime.”
Response from pageant officials was swift, in a letter to Zhu the Miss World America organization wrote
"It has been brought to the attention of the 'MWA' that you social media accounts contain offensive, insensitive and inappropriate content," the letter said. It also said that Zhu no longer met the requirement of "being in good character." "Therefore, and effective immediately, MWA does not recognize you as a participant of any sort.”
After being stripped of her crown, Zhu said in a video posted online that the decision by the organization is reverse discrimination.
Pageant officials didn't respond to a Sunday message seeking comment. It's unclear who'll represent Michigan in Miss World America's October competition in Las Vegas.