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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      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.

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        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.