The judge reportedly wrote, “Tan a tad too dark for her age, but everything else is beautiful.”
“She is the only biracial child in her class for sure and against the girls that she competed with. So, for them to have said that about her in her division...I feel like it was just unnecessary,” Fletcher said.
The comment prompted her to reach out to the pageant coordinators and even the judge who made the comment. “The director of the pageant, of course, apologized. She said she was sorry that she didn’t read the score sheet. She didn’t know what was said,” Fletcher said. “The judge who made the comment also apologized. She was like, she wasn’t aware of her ethnicity, which shouldn’t have been even a question.”
Fletcher said tanning is not new in pageantry and that many of the young ladies do get them; however, not Charleigh. She believes comments like this for biracial girls and women can truly do damage to their self-esteem.Riverside School District released the following statement regarding the judge’s comment:
“On September 3rd and 4th, the Riverside School District held its 2022 Miss Riverside Pageant. The school staff worked hard to make the pageant a success and hired experienced judges. One judge, in particular, wrote a comment on the score sheet of a contestant in the Tiny Tot division, “Tan is a tad too dark for her age, but everything else is beautiful.” The student had not used a tan supplement. Whether or not a supplement was used, the judge should not have made such a comment.
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