A University of Texas student is facing backlash online after winning a campus-area pageant.
Rachael Malonson, a senior journalism student at UT, was recently crowned Miss Black University of Texas.
But when the Iota Delta chapter of Kappa Delta Psi, the predominantly black fraternity that hosts the annual pageant, announced Malonson as the winner, Twitter users immediately started responding, criticizing Malsonson for not being “black enough.”
Others on Twitter came to Malonson’s defense, including her brother.
Malonson, originally from Magnolia, told the Dallas Morning News she's "always had to battle" this type of criticism, because her father is black and her mother is white. But the pageant is open to anyone with African-American heritage, a fraternity member told KVUE, including biracial women. Malonson thanked her supporters on Twitter.
Credit: LisaIson
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