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Miss America said she wants to be ‘incredibly opinionated’ about politics during her reign

Emma Broyles was crowned Miss America 2022 on Thursday.Miss America Organization Miss Alaska Emma Broyles won the 100th annual Miss America pageant on Thursday. She made history as the first Korean-American contestant to win the crown. Broyles told Insider it’s important to voice her political opinion. Miss America 2022 is looking to make her history-making win worth it. Emma Broyles, 19, was crowned on Thursday at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, in the 100th Miss America pageant. She made history as the first Miss Alaska to become Miss America, as well as the first Korean-American to hold the title. Broyles, who studies at the Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University, told Insider that as someone who will be in the public eye, she wants to use the platform to speak about solutions to the issues facing the United States right now. “I never want to try to conceal my political opinion and I never want to try to appeal to one audience over another,” she said. “As Miss America, I can have an opinion, a voice, and I think it’s also important to recognize the stance of the other side because that’s where the factor of open-mindedness and empathy comes into play.”Broyles said it’s important for her to use the Miss America platform to speak her mind.Miss America OrganizationBroyles added that the only way to talk about the issues facing the United States and the world is having an open mind and “inviting an open dialogue.”The newest pageant winner said the fact that she is the first Korean-American to win Miss America is a sign of “positive change” the organization has made in recent years. “I think the fact that I’m a Korean-American who’s earned the title of Miss America is completely representative of the positive change that this organization has seen,” she said. “I think that this is an organization that is incredibly progressive, and we’re progressive alongside changes that we see in society as well.””We’ve had such a diverse group of Miss Americas in the past decade, and even just in the top 10, it was incredibly diverse,” she went on to say.Read the original article on Insider
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