dubbed the “wokest” ever. The 23-year-old beat 50 other contestants at the event Monday night at the River Spirit Casino Resort in Tulsa, Oklahoma. “A little over a year ago, I sat in bed and watched Miss USA,” Smith said in an emotional Instagram post. “I remember watching … so many incredible women grace the stage, and thinking, ‘I want to be on that stage.
I want to be like them.’ … I made that dream reality.”Miss USA has been running since 1952 and has traditionally been a celebration of thin, mostly white, able-bodied women — but this year’s pageant was noted for the diversity of its contestants.