Notice anything...... funny....... about our Rose Festival Court? http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/...e_festivals_got_a_bouq.html#incart_river_home Maybe if we send these girls around the country, we could bamboozle some NBA free agents into thinking we're not 78% white in Portland.
My sister was a RF Princess. I swear there was only one female of color that year. Good, glad to see them mix it up a bit.
What happened to the old process where the City High schools student body elected their representatives to be on the court? PC Rules now can dictate outcome?
My cousin was a finalist to be a Rose Festival Court princess once. Don't know much about it. Do they win a scholarship if they are chosen to be queen?
"We are all brilliant women who just so happen to all be from many different backgrounds," wrote Wilson High School Princess Maggie Beutler, who was adopted as a baby from China. "And so while Rose Festival has chosen to honor all of us and our beautiful diversity, I know within my heart that they did not only do so because we were Asian. Because we were Black. Because we were Muslim. Because we were underdogs. Because they took pity on us. I know that we are all aspiring women, trying very hard to have a voice in our community and use it to the best of our abilities."
Time to end 100 years of sexism and bring back the Rose Festival King. Since the beginning, royalty has been part of the pageantry of Rose Festival, but the type of monarch and the selection method have changed over the years. Carrie Lee Chamberlain, the daughter of Oregon Governor George Chamberlain, was the first Rose Festival queen in 1907. The next year, the queen was abandoned for a male monarch, Rex Oregonus. One of the kings was Portland florist Tommy Luke, who rode the entire parade route on the back of an elephant. In 1914, Rex Oregonus was retired, and a queen once again reigned over Rose Festival. Rex reappeared briefly in the 1920s to rule beside the queen.
A little history. https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/portland_rose_festival/#.WP_kXhI2zIU http://www.pdxhistory.com/html/rose_festival.html
If you don't shit all over a group of minorities, then how will we know where you stand in the culture war?
Well obviously this group of minorities is super representative of our city, right? We're a cultural rainbow here in diverse Portland, Oregon!!!!
