The Miss Universe Zimbabwe competition returned recently after a 22-year hiatus and crowned Brooke Bruk-Jackson to represent the South African country.
According to Essence, the 21-year-old Zimbabwe native and model received mixed reactions on social media following her win on Saturday.
The online critics questioned why Bruk-Jackson, a white woman, was selected to represent an African nation. They also mentioned several Black women were contestants in the event. However, the 21-year-old was chosen to represent a country with a predominantly Black population because she’s a white woman.
White Woman Wins Miss Universe Zimbabwe, Sparks Mixed Reactions On Social Media
https://news.yahoo.com/white-woman-wins-miss-universe-155007420.html
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tallwookie@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y
nottheengineer@feddit.de · 6 pts · 2y
The link you posted tells me I'm blocked by cloudflare.
Please post archive links in the future, anything else is just unreliable nowadays.
quindraco@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
This image is pretty damning. It's a beauty contest and she was self-evidently not the prettiest contestant by any reasonable measure.
goji@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y
Ok. I find beauty pageants in general to be reductive and gross… but yeah. You can smell the stink on that decision from Canada.
I mean just look at Yamikani.
In no universe are they on the same level.