PHOTO: Who beat out Sarah Palin for the title of Miss Alaska in 1984?

[Bluebear]

The lovely Maryline Blackburn, the first African-American Miss Alaska :)



http://www.missalaskapageant.com/50yearsofmissalaska.html

[gateley]

1. Boy - she is gorgeous! nt

[Bluebear]

2. She is! And I bet that has stuck in Sarah's craw for a couple decades :)

[Ignis]

23. You know it!

I see Caribou Barbie sitting in her office, making a list of things to do once she's *cough* in the White House.

1. Appoint Maryline Blackburn as Ambassador to Antarctica...

:rofl:

[Cooley Hurd]

3. She has an ironic name...

...because it must've burned them that she was black!:silly:

[TomInTib]

4. Well, I'll be damned. That little factoid speaks volumes, does it not? nt

[Bluebear]

5. Hopefully very prescient as well!

[wvbygod]

24. Only if you think in racist terms

Do you?

[TomInTib]

28. No, but I'll bet that the Palin woman does.

I think in racial terms.

As in Human Race.

[Demobrat]

6. Michelle's better looking.

Just saying,

[Bluebear]

10. Maryline is a stunning woman too

http://www.marylineblackburn.com/music/

[bullwinkle428]

7. She has her own site - she's been a successful R&B vocalist for years!

http://www.marylineblackburn.com/

Still looks terrific as well...

[Bluebear]

9. Nice!! I like the tune "Jealous Love"

[TomInTib]

12. I wonder what Palin did in the Talent category.

I'll bet the farm that it wasn't vocal (unless she was doing a Yoko Ono imitation).

[SoCalDem]

15. Yodel? tap dance? ventriloquism? anyone know?

:)

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Given how warbly her speech was last night...

...definitely yodeling.:D

[alfredo]

16. Not sure but it had something to do with ping pong balls duct tape and a

bicycle lock.

[Rincewind]

18. Skinned a walrus nt

[Forkboy]

21. ....

:spray:

[jberryhill]

19. Drill, Baby, Drill

At least that's what the crowd was chanting when she was performing her "talent".

[undeterred]

29. Ground up a moose and made burgers on camera.

[Imagine My Surprise]

8. Estell Getty n/t

[Buzz Clik]

11. A community organizer, perhaps?

It might explain why Palin dislikes those kind of people ... community organizers, I mean. You know. Those kind of people.

[kansasblue]

13. ha! I love your Nope icon. Sweet!

[NMDemDist2]

14. !!!!

:wow:

[krabigirl]

20. Awesome! Beautiful woman.

[Indenturedebtor]

22. Lets hope that this is a pattern :D n/t

[wvbygod]

25. How long before the R word gets used

I'm sure whomever uses will have a bit more "evidence" than this.

[Bluebear]

26. Why, what "evidence" are you referring to, West Virginia By God?

[wvbygod]

31. exactly

remove the quotes and there suddenly is none.

[Bluebear]

32. Um, nobody is claiming "evidence" in this thread.

[wvbygod]

34. of course not

It may never show up....in this thread.

[Bluebear]

35. I don't know what you're talking about, sorry. Later!

[sakabatou]

27. Wow...

Of course not as gorgeous as my Mi-chan (who's also African-American).

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Wow! I bet that pissed her off. :)

[ColbertWatcher]

36. I bet it did.

"We want to see Ivana," said Palin, who admittedly smells like salmon for a large part of the summer, "because we are so desperate in Alaska for any semblance of glamour and culture."

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/trailhead/archive/2008/08/29/palin-likes-celebrities-more-than-mccain-used-to-smell-like-fish.aspx

Now I know where she gets her "hairstyle"

[spanone]

33. it's a shame that irony is lost on rethuglicons

[Bluebear]

37. Oh yes indeed!

[Pastiche423]

38. A more recent photo of Maryline...

[Nevernose]

40. Lady's got one heck of a smile, doesn't she? n/t

n/t

[Pastiche423]

41. A beautiful smile and a beautiful voice

http://www.marylineblackburn.com/

[Rockholm]

39. Elegant!