Miss France: They Did It Again
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Summary
In this episode, we talk about the Miss Universe 2019 winner, Miss Martinique Angelique Agarani-Filippone, who is a 34-year-old black woman from Martinique. She is the oldest Miss France ever to win and represents a country that has never had a Black woman at the top position before.
Transcript
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They always love to replace the white people in various European countries
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when it's the Miss Whatever contest. Miss Universe, essentially.
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How many of these have we covered? Germany? Denmark?
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I don't know how many now. It's countless of them.
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Obviously, this is not that important, but this is more symbolic than anything.
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Isn't this supposed to be the best the country has to offer?
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And, in fact, it gets better. It's not only the fact that she was black,
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it's the fact that she was the oldest ever winner.
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So, she's like a 34-year-old crowned oldest Miss France ever after rule change.
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Accepting the award, she said she was representing Martinique,
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its diaspora, as well as the women who were once told that it was too late.
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And she said she was very, very far in my head from telling myself that I was going to win.
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And, yeah, because normally, even she understood that usually she doesn't win those kinds of things.
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Now, she wins it because she's not only black, I guess, because she's old, maybe older.
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Some mystery meets some Middle Eastern or North African
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and you pick someone who actually looks French,