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Miss UK 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n Miss England 2021, Rehema Muthamia has opened up on the racist attacks she has faced since being crowned, eight months ago.<\/p>\n The 26-year-old in an interview with the British tabloid, Daily Mail revealed ever since being crowned, she has been branded derogatory terms such as \u2018Miss KFC\u2019 with others questioning why a woman of colour was crowned Miss England.<\/p>\n \u201cI already knew I would face racism as a Black woman in England, not in London so much but being British and Black I am conscious of the fact people will be prejudiced towards me,\u201d Muthamia told the publication.<\/p>\n Muthamia, a genetics graduate from the University of Sussex and health technology consultant in practice, said due to past incidences she was prepared for all the hate.<\/p>\n \u201cI have faced racism in the past and I\u2019m aware of it happening so I was prepared for it, it\u2019s saddening to think people are racist and prejudiced in this day and age. I accepted it for what it was, understood it must be coming from lack of understanding,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n This is not the first time, she has faced racial discrimination on social media. Muthamia in 2021spoke about her experiences during an appearance on This Morning a popular British morning show.<\/p>\n \u201cPeople were calling about me having won, telling the Miss England platform, they weren\u2019t happy that I was a black woman\u2026 Through press that has been released and there\u2019s been many comments, basically saying that as a black woman, I shouldn\u2019t have won Miss England\u2026I\u2019m ethnically black, but I am British. And I\u2019m so proud to be British,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n Aside from being crowned, Muthamia also won the equivalent of Sh300,000 a wardrobe of evening and occasion wear, a photoshoot, a personalised website, luggage, and a glamour mirror for clinching the title.<\/p>\n Muthamia was born in the UK to Kenyan parents. She also spent part of her childhood in Kenya before moving to North West London where she grew up.<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Miss UK 2021 Miss England 2021, Rehema Muthamia has opened up on the racist attacks she has faced since being crowned, eight months ago. The 26-year-old in an interview with the British tabloid, Daily Mail revealed ever since being crowned, she has been branded derogatory terms such as \u2018Miss KFC\u2019 with others questioning why a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1099001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10190,8571,1404,2608,2897,6983],"class_list":["post-1098999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-attacks","tag-england","tag-faces","tag-heritage","tag-kenyan","tag-racial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1098999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1098999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1098999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1098999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1098999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}