Everyday one hears different stories,
then you start wondering if there are still genuine people out there... Very hard to tell and know these days. People start a business, organization, association; name it..., just to defraud, use and abuse others; especially the innocent ones.
I just got to know that some organisations pimp beauty princesses and queens and use them for other ungraceful things. At
Miss Black Europe International Scholarship Pageant we cherish our young ladies. As a mother myself, I see them as my daughters, nieces, sisters. I want them to learn and grow; I want to impact my knowledge, experience and passion that I have for our community in them so they can be bold, beautiful inside, and strong to give back to the society when we help them to find the key to the door of success.
It is about mentoring, branding, empowering and showcasing them, while we let them know and see that education is the key. One's education will never fail, even if other things fail. We coach them not only about the formal education, but also the informal which entails morals, discipline, humility, selflessness and above all respect for everyone regardless whom they are and their background.
When young ladies are being destroyed or polluted, we get it all wrong, because ladies are the bedrock of our society, one day they will have their own homes, give birth to men and women to be (which are the world); what they get is what they'll give back to the world... The chain of unprotected, undisciplined community, then grows. We see beyond today at MBE.
As a licenced Philologist up to doctoral level, with maximum respect for authority, I can't but let the young ladies know and believe that formal and informal education are both essential in becoming successful in life,
not only being successful, but to maintain success in the journey of life, that is not always smooth.
We should NOT make money by destroying others, doing so turns to chain of destruction; why? The ladies might one day start same type of organization and will then destroy, abuse and use the younger ones, because it was once done to them. Only a good, forgiving and disciplined ones will cut off the chain of destruction and become clean.
People should be honest, transparent and kind.
If they want to use girls... let them go and open a brothel, don't camouflage with beauty pageantry, beauty pageantry is dignifying, don't turn it into trash and what people will look down on. Beauty pageantry is not prostitution, it's graceful and royal; it must be kept so.
After MBE 2014,
we have taken swimming wear session out our competition. We do not need the ladies' body to know how beautiful and intelligent they are. We want to see their inner beauty and how they can be useful to our community and be self-sufficient.
I'm not totally against organization who are still into swimming wear session, inasmuch there is no hidden agenda; I hope one day they'll see no need for swimming wear session.
With ten years experience in beauty pageantry, we have never and we will never go down 'the dirty path'. All we do is for the betterment of our community.
Also, we will never promise prizes and benefits that we know we won't give, we have never done so, and will won't. We heard that some don't fulfil their promises; it's indecency doing so. Again, we do not 'fix the winner', it's immoral engaging in that. Well, all our ladies are winners, the only difference is some get the top prizes; whichever way none leaves without benefits.
Honesty and kindness are part of us; no deceit games. I know, we can't change the whole world, but we can change the world around us and it will gradually spread around.
Let's heal the world.
- Sola Opesn Brown.
