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.
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tallwookie@lemm.ee 1 year ago
since apparently yahoo wants to sell my data before it will show images, here’s what Miss Universe Zimbabwe looks like: africanvibes.com/brooke-bruk-jackson-is-miss-univ…
fuck yahoo news
nottheengineer@feddit.de 1 year ago
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 1 year ago
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 year ago
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.