Like the kickass goddess that she is, Barber perfectly maintained her composure while strongly defending women’s right to serve in combat.
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On Sunday night, 52 contestants sashayed across the stage at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas ready to compete for the title of Miss USA.
During the pageant’s Q&A portion, Barber was asked whether the Pentagon’s December decision to open combat roles to women was more about political correctness or “our military’s ability to perform at a high level”.
Barber said that gender doesn’t limit women in the U.S. military.
Miss District of Columbia USA 2016 Deshauna Barber (L) is congratulated by Miss Teen USA 2016 Katherine Haik.
She now serves two days a month.
Barber joined the military at age 17.
Share this article and help to make our society a better place to live. Miss California had a tough time with her question and choked when asked how to narrow the gap between the rich and poor in society. The media and entertainment company cut business ties with Trump after he launched his presidential campaign last summer, and refused to broadcast the Miss USA 2015 show even though it had already planned to show it.
This was no doubt a hard question and one that the pageant contestant had to be sure to handle carefully, but rather than giving a safe non-answer, Barber dove in and stood strongly for women like herself.
Barber is being praised not only for the views she holds about the jobs that should be held by woman but also for the way she expressed these thoughts. She beat Miss Georgia and Miss Hawaii by taking home the coveted crown.
He took to Twitter after Miss USA Sunday night to mock himself again by highlighting the similarity of the two locations, the District of Columbia and the country of Colombia.
“My commander should be watching right now”, Barber said. Over the weekend, though, judge Laura Brown asked Miss Hawaii Chelsea Hardin a question that incited immediate boos from the crowd-and a veritable Twitterstorm afterward.
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“She has represented the Trojan family so well”, Abdullah said.
