Nina Davuluri isn’t just American, she’s from New York, the country’s front door, but her brown skin has inspired some reprehensible tweets, including one from a Fox Newser.

“The liberal Miss America judges won’t say this,” wrote Fox News and Commentary host Todd Starnes, “but Miss Kansas lost because she actually represented American values.”

To which @TaePhoenix replied, “Values like being white and blonde?”

Here is a smattering of the bigotry, culled by CNN’s Leslie Bentz:

Here’s one from a not-crazy:

— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer

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