Fresh Off The Bus 4: Miss Teen Idaho
An E&I Enterprises Story
Note: This is a author invitational story in honor of my tenth anniversary as a writer(I'm 1 Β½ years late). Authors are invited to write their own adventures of the Miss Teen USA contestants attending the pageant at the Nubian King casino in Atlantic City. They may be as long or as short as an author likes. See the rules following the story.
August 2004
Prologue:
"The O'Malley factor is on. Good evening I'm Bill O'Malley and here's tonight's talking points. Is the Miss Universe Organization a racist institution? First some background. In November of 2003, our friend, the late Daniel Trump signed over the rights to the Miss Universe Organization over to Solomon King of King Enterprises. King also won the Trump Spire Casino off Mr. Trump. Rumor has it both were won in a high stakes poker game. Solomon King immediately turned the casino into an African themed resort and it will now be hosting the 2004 Miss Teen USA pageant. Now Mr. King has done some good works most notably his halfway houses for ex-cons and delinquents, plus some charitable work, but nearly all supports black causes. Indeed his halfway houses primarily focus on African American men. The Miss Teen USA pageant has always focused on teen charities, but now is almost exclusively focusing on King's halfway houses and many contestants have been working with young black males. Now there's nothing wrong with these charities, but the Miss Universe Pageant belongs to everyone, not just African Americans."
"Here are some more facts. King Enterprises focuses on black owned businesses and whenever he adds a business to his growing empire, he replaces the management and staff with black employees. King Enterprises discriminates against whites. I repeat. King Enterprises racially discriminates."
Today, I received a list of the judges at the Miss Teen USA pageant being held this month and here they are. Victoria Goodhead, CEO of Hidden Closet. She once dated Solomon King and King owns a majority stake in her company. Indeed, it was King's influence that made Hidden Closet go with bustier models and sleazier lingerie. Next is Marcus Black, President of Black's Gym and a friend of King. Next is Tracy Lovelace-Hardcastle, a well loved romance novelist who writes under the name Lacy Lovelorn, now published by King and all her recent novels involve white women with black men and are now classified as erotica, not romance. Then there's Nikki Holden, sister of Paris Holden of the infamous Blackchelor pay-per-view scandal two months ago. The Blackchelor was produced by a company called E&I Enterprises and though we can find no connection with Solomon King, it is a company devoted to interracial pornography. And finally, the last judge is the Reverend Al Sharpspeare, who is our guest tonight."
"Reverend, is Solomon King a bigot?"
"Of course not, Bill. Two months ago he married a white woman."
"A white woman worth 3 billion dollars."
"Bill, I married them and I can assure you, they are very much in love. I'll even give you a scoop. Solomon and Ivara Trump-King are expecting their first baby.
"Well next time you talk to Mr. King, give him my congratulations. Now Reverend, don't you think there's something strange about all this?
"Not at all. Solomon King is a great man. If he's guilty of anything, it's giving jobs to his friends and supporters. People he knows he can trust."
"Like ex-girlfriends?"
"He's dated a lot of women, Bill. That's not a crime."
"All white women. Now why would someone who is such an activist for black causes only date white women?"
"You'll have to ask him that and I think it's a testimony to his greatness that so many of these women are still friends or coworkers with him, like Victoria Gooodhead."
"He hasn't dated Nikki Holden has he?"
"Not that I'm aware of."
"Do you know there's a rumor that Nikki Holden just married her sister's husband in a secret ceremony on the island of Trinibogo? You married Paris Holden and Mustafa, correct?"
"Yes, but I'm not aware of any weird polygamist marriage. Trinibogo does have it's own laws though."
"There's also a rumor that the entire Holden Hotel empire is being turned over to King Enterprises."
"Bill, respectable journalists shouldn't deal in rumors."
"Like the one about you meeting with African American pastors to form a separate Afmerican Church?"
The Reverend Sharpspeare's brow furrowed. "Those rumors are unfounded. We've been meeting to discuss religious issues and that's all."
"Last question, Reverend. Will you tell me your secret?"
Al Sharpspeare smiled. "You've been asking me that for two years now."
"Well, you've kept off the weight, your muscles are huge and you look thirty years younger."
"Clean living and faith in god is my secret."
"Thanks as always Reverend. You're a stand up guy."