A white woman won Miss Zimbabwe, and blacks were outraged. They cried: "A white girl can't win!" But when a black woman wins a beauty pageant, it's unthinkable. It's never black enough in the entire world.
00:02:03.700A fat man won a Miss America beauty pageant.
00:02:07.100And just a couple years back, after hearing about white beauty standards and how it's racist and supremacist, even in Europe, all five major title holders, Miss Universe, Miss World, Miss America, Miss USA, Miss Teen USA, they were all black women.
00:02:49.380It became a self-governing British-known territory known as Southern Rhodesia in the early 1920s before the white minority declared independence from the British government in 1965.
00:03:00.800Zimbabwe exported everything from cotton to maize.
00:03:05.860Life was good, and it was better for blacks, too.
00:03:08.220Soon after whites declared independence, black communist nationalists waged war against the white minority, resulting in 15 years of violent guerrilla fighting.
00:03:19.940Today, Zimbabwe's white minority totals around 30,000 people living an unprivileged life.
00:03:26.200The majority live in the city and towns.
00:03:28.020This rural white population was already in decline due to migration caused by the Bush War, where white people were targeted by Zipra and Zanla, commie guerrillas.
00:03:39.000During Mugabe's era, the prime minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 87, and then as president from 1987 to 2017, farms owned by whites were confiscated, stolen, and given to Mugabe's cronies.
00:03:52.820White farmers were chased off their farms or killed.
00:03:55.580The pensions and bank accounts of whites were stolen by Mugabe.
00:03:59.80085% of the country identified as Christian, by the way, and that didn't matter.
00:04:04.320Then the following president asked white farmers to return to farming because there was no food.
00:04:09.320Some South African white farmers are now farming in Zimbabwe, as they say it's safer, if you can imagine that.
00:04:15.440Whites have been attacked, stolen from, murdered, and then asked to return after all that.
00:04:20.660But when a white girl wins a beauty pageant, it's unthinkable.
00:04:25.580Well, when Zimbabwe was Rhodesia, it had one of the most structurally developed economies in Africa under white rule.
00:04:32.400Victoria Falls, I've been there, one of the seven wonders of the world, so they had a thriving tourism during that period.
00:04:39.540Zimbabwe exported everything from cotton to maize, as I said.
00:04:43.680And despite dividing along racial lines, public services were better managed under white rule.
00:04:49.720Rhodesians of all colors had access to grants to study in the UK, even though the state of Rhodesia at that time was not internationally recognized.
00:04:57.780The Rhodesian period resulted in the creation of the best educated African people on the continent.
00:05:24.520There's political instability, which has discouraged tourists from visiting.
00:05:29.060Rhodesia was only the second country in 189 years to declare independence from Imperial Britain.
00:05:35.280The first was the U.S., of course, in 1776.
00:05:38.080Miss America and Miss Britain can be people from all over the world, but little Miss Zimbabwe can't possibly be white, even though white settlers built it.
00:05:49.700White people are the most tolerant in the world.
00:05:52.640There were many, many, many, many people who said, what a fantastic thing, what a ridiculous thing, what a stupid thing.
00:06:05.300To think that a few hundred thousand people like this can define not only Britain, but really the United Nations and the rest of the world.