After being
announced the winner, there was an uproar stating that she is not the best
representative of Latin beauty. It never ceases to amaze me how so many Latinos
that I meet in my personal life who are so oblivious to the racial diversity in
their own community. I hate to bust some folks bubble, but not all Latinas look
like Jennifer Lopez. I’m not Latino, yet I myself have personally met and
rubbed elbows Latinos who look like Denzel Washington, Merryl Streep, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
and Sun-Young-Moon. Where have these folks who criticized the winner been all of their lives assuming you have to be a certain color to be Latino. As I stated on another blog post, I’ve been in Latin-American
restaurants and grocery stores in the US, Perú, and Venezuela that were owned
and staffed by Chinese, and if I didn’t speak Spanish (or Cantonese), I didn’t
eat. It was simple as that!
The pageant
winner’s Latin-American bloodline goes back to her grandmother who was born in
the Dominican Republic. Jakiyah herself was born in Brooklyn, New York where
her mother currently lives. The little Miss Hispanic Delaware currently stays
with her father in the city of Wilmington, Delaware. She likes to sing, dance
and watch movies with her grandmother. Jakiyah McKoy has one brother, Shad, and
a sister, Jamiyah. She loves spending time with her aunts, uncles, and her
cousins and loves her godmother Relly. Her favorite pastime is drawing.
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