let me answer for you miss south carolina
for those that have seen this video already, this is my response for miss south carolina. girl, i feel for you. if you haven't seen it, go for it. then come check out my 30 second response.
"that is a great question amiee. i might shoot myself in the foot for saying this and saying bye bye to the crown. however, i can only be saddened to hear of such a statistic. symptomatic problems that lead to such a travesty would have to be put on the school systems. they do not teach equally across the board and some people will make it through graduation without a proper education. a more root cause i can see with this is our pre-occupation with ourselves as americans. why should we care where in the world we are when we care very little for the world. do we even need a world. i would argue that we do, but our actions, other than our buying habits prove otherwise. our society as a whole needs to become more globally away which would in turn bring about some curiosity as to our place in global afairs and hopefully a recognition of where we are on a damn map. thank you"
this video has made it all over in the past two or three days. i held off talking about it because i wasn't sure what to say. i certainly didn't want to jump on and bash a teenager, even if they put themselves out there for the world to see in a pagent. in reflecting on this, it's not an easy question when you are dealing and taught fluff answers. it is a self-reflective question for a country, to put on a teenager, in the spotlight, on the spot. that is tough.. wish you had done a bit better with it though.
um...wow...I don't know what to say (and neither did she, apparently)...
Posted by: Ginger | August 28, 2007 at 07:06 PM
As a South Carolinian, I remember growing up without maps...
It's a sad travesty. By the way, isn't South Africa in the Mediterranean Sea???
Posted by: Mike | August 29, 2007 at 11:24 AM
ouch mike, you can't even defend your own people. that hurts
Posted by: gavin | August 29, 2007 at 01:27 PM
I've moved on to the great state of Alabama that is 1st in obesity...
Hey, have you heard much about the upcoming emerging worship conference in Nash-vegas?
Posted by: Mike | August 29, 2007 at 03:51 PM
i have (this is what mike talks of). the plan is to go. though i have yet to register.. lazy i know
Posted by: gavin | August 29, 2007 at 04:48 PM