The Miss South Carolina United States competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of South Carolina in the Miss United States pageant. The pageant is produced by Miss South Carolina United States Pageants.
The national competition is held each year in Las Vegas, Nevada. The current Miss South Carolina United States 2010 is Kerri Wheeler of Andrews, South Carolina.
Also held in conjunction with the Miss South Carolina United States pageant is the Miss Teen South Carolina United States and Miss Junior Teen South Carolina United States pageants.
Miss Teen South Carolina United States 2010 is Mae-Ann Webb of Ridge Spring, South Carolina Miss Junior Teen South Carolina United States 2010 is Stacey Martonen of Chapin, South Carolina.
Ms South Carolina United States 2010 is Trish Capps of North Augusta, South Carolina.
The Miss Teen United States 2008 is Stephanie Rozier of South Carolina. The Miss Teen United States 2009 is Courtney Turner of North Augusta. The Ms United States 2009 is Quiana' Anderson of Sumter.
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“In the United States the whites speak well of the Blacks but think bad about them, whereas the Blacks talk bad and think bad about the whites. Whites fear Blacks, because they have a bad conscience, and Blacks hate whites because they need not have a bad conscience.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“...I always said if I lived to get grown and had a chance, I was going to try to get something for my mother and I was going to do something for the black man of the South if it would cost my life; I was determined to see that things were changed.”
—Fannie Lou Hamer (1917–1977)
“I hear ... foreigners, who would boycott an employer if he hired a colored workman, complain of wrong and oppression, of low wages and long hours, clamoring for eight-hour systems ... ah, come with me, I feel like saying, I can show you workingmen’s wrong and workingmen’s toil which, could it speak, would send up a wail that might be heard from the Potomac to the Rio Grande; and should it unite and act, would shake this country from Carolina to California.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control—”indoctrination” we might say—exercised through the mass media.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.”
—Barbara Mikulski (b. 1936)