Miss North Carolina USA Brittany Boltinhouse stripped of title after alleged racist posts resurface

Miss North Carolina USA has been stripped of her beauty pageant title just over a month removed from her victory as a string of alleged racist posts resurfaced.Brittany Boltinhouse, 27, was formally dethroned from the position on Wednesday after pageant organizers conducted a “thorough review of recently surfaced information.” Bosses at A-Blaize Productions, which oversaw the Miss North Carolina USA contest, said the decision to strip Boltinhouse of her title was “difficult.”“This decision was not made lightly,” the organizers said in a statement.“It followed a thorough review of recently surfaced information and was based on the totality of the circumstances and our responsibility to preserve the integrity of the Miss North Carolina USA title and the values of our organization.”“As an organization entrusted with selecting and preparing women to represent our states on the national stage, we must uphold the standards and values that our titleholders agree to embrace when accepting the honor of wearing the crown.”Thom Brodeur, president and CEO of Miss USA, didn’t disclose what Boltinhouse wrote in the social media posts, but said that the brand “does not tolerate racism, homophobia, transphobia, nor language that strips any person of their dignity – whoever they are.”“That is not a policy written for a press release,” Brodeur said.

“It is the floor of what it means to represent this brand.A title here isn’t a trinket.

It is a position of trust, extended by an organization and accepted by a woman who agrees to carry a standard in public.When that standard is broken, the title cannot continue as though nothing happened.“What was brought to us was not a single moment.

It reflected conduct over an extended period of time.“That is why this outcome was reached and I stand behind it without qualification.” Boltinhouse apologized, according to Brodeur, but the executive said her confession “does not undo the harm, and it does ...