Se evidencia la predominancia del color blanco en concursos de belleza como Miss America, Miss World y Miss Universe, a pesar de la diversidad de mujeres en Estados Unidos.
Se ironiza sobre la asociación de lo "blanco" con lo positivo, mencionando productos como White House Cigars, White Swan Soap y White Rain Harris, en contraste con el "devil's food cake" (torta del diablo) como única opción chocolate.
Miss America was always white. All the beautiful brown women in America. Beautiful sun tans, beautiful shapes, all type complexions, but she always was white. And Miss World was always white. And Miss Universe was always white. And then they got some stuff called White House Cigars, White Swan Soap, King White Soap, White Cloud Tissue Paper, White Rain Harris, White Tornado Flow Wax. Everything was white. And the angel food cake was the white cake and the devil's food cake was the chocolate cake.