{"id":62923,"date":"2018-10-16T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/10\/16\/mrs-america-pageant-director-accused-of-racially-insensitive-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T02:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T00:33:06","slug":"mrs-america-pageant-director-accused-of-racially-insensitive-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=62923","title":{"rendered":"Mrs America pageant director accused of racially insensitive comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Marmel denies the claims and says his comments during a \u2018confidential session\u2019 were taken out of contextThe director of the Mrs America beauty pageant has been accused of racism by several contestants in the competition, with one woman alleging that she was told \u201cblack women need to stop having babies and having four baby daddies\u201d.Four 2018 Mrs America contestants say that David Marmel, executive director and co-founder of the pageant, made a series of racist generalizations at this year\u2019s contest in Las Vegas. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/15\/mrs-america-pageant-director-accused-racism\" target=\"_blank\">Mrs America pageant director accused of racially insensitive comments<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Marmel denies the claims and says his comments during a \u2018confidential session\u2019 were taken out of contextThe director of the Mrs America beauty pageant has been accused of racism by several contestants in the competition, with one woman alleging that she was told \u201cblack women need to stop having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}