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White Miss Zimbabwe · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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We got a question for American mama. Dear mamas, why is it wrong
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for a white woman to be named Miss Zimbabwe. Well, let's ask our
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American mama, Mama, Mama, and joining us now our American mama's Terry
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Nettterville and Kimberly Burlison. This is out of Zimbabwe. A woman named Brooke
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bruck Jackson won the Miss Miss Universe Zimbabwe pageant and is going to represent that
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country in the Miss Universe pageant. Coming up with all the nations that are
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involved, Miss bruck Jackson happens to be white in a country that, of
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course, in Africa, is mostly black. And there are people online who
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are very very upset that a white woman won this beauty pageant in that African
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nation. What's wrong with it? Oh my gosh, this, I'm so
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tired of this. This is this is racism at its worst. They're they're
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talking about, you know, wanting to cancel a woman who won this contest
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fair and square, and they're saying things like our ancestors are rolling in their
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graves. This is tragic and disappointing. Why why Because if her skin color
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was black, you would be celebrating the same person the same soul. So
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why are you bullying her? Why are you saying that she shouldn't even deserve
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to win? She got into that contest the same way everybody else did,
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went through the same rigorous things you have to go through, answering the same
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kinds of questions, And so why are you going to bully somebody? Can
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you imagine if this was in America, you know, we're majority white,
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and a black woman won, and white people came online saying this is a
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disgrace, this is tragic, this is disappointing. Look at her. She
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she doesn't represent our white America. Can you even imagine? So why is
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it okay to do this to a white person? Well, first of all,
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it's where it is. It's in Zimbabwe. They don't think like we
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do. They don't care if they sound racist. It's a whole different culture
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than here. It wouldn't be accepted here, but obviously it is there.
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But I think some of these comments online are from Americans. There's probably white
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people. It could be it could be white, could be black, but
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it is from Americans actually talking about how this was not appropriate in Zimbabwe.
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Well, I kind of disagree with you. Kimberly, I think that even
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if this happened in America, because now we're living in a cancel culture world
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where they would have if if it was tell you what, let's do it,
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Let's do it this way. Let's say you go to a city,
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so you have the beauty pageants in order to get up to the national Beauty
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pageant. Right, you start off in local and then you go to state
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and then you go on up. So let's say just New Orleans. New
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Orleans is a majority black city. So if Miss New Orleans happens to be
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white and she was the only white contestant in the Miss New Orleans passion,
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oh, I guarantee you go then to the Miss Louisiana pageant. Would you
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have the same kind of reaction if the only white person in New Orleans was
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the one who won the Missis? I believe? So? I believe,
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so do you, Kimberly. I don't know. I don't know how I
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feel about this particular thing. You know, it's uncomfortable. I feel like
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there would be a backlash, and I am I am. I guess I'm
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online all the time. I see the trolls, I see things that are
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being said that if this happened in New Orleans and there was a beauty contest
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like this and there's one woman, one white woman. She did everything that
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she was supposed to do, just like everybody else. If she had won
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one hundred percent, there would be backlash. If you reverse it and you
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say you go to a city that's majority white and there's one black woman.
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She was Salt Lake City. Yeah, okay, it's one of the most
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white cities in the country. Let's say you have I'll tell you, well,
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let's just take black out of it. What if you had a Muslim
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woman win Miss Utah, right, would there be the backlash? No,
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No, absolutely not, there would not. I mean there might be a
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little bit, but not to that degree. I feel like that it would
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be you would be canceled for even going against that. You know, that
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poor sweet Muslim girl that did all the right things. You would look like
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a monster as a white person coming out after her because she also went through
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all the rigorous things that you go through. That's just my opinion. And
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maybe I sound cynical, and I hate that if I am. If I
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sound like that, because I've always been accused for lack of a better word
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of being a Pollyanna seeing the best in everything. The world has changed me.
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The world has changed me because now I feel like that people get away
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with being cruel to white people especially and and I would not fall into that.
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I'm such a believer that the best person should win. I don't care
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what color your skin is. I think about kamal La Harris, our vice
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president. She does not deserve She is in there because of identity politics.
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So I think that she didn't deserve that position because she doesn't fit the requirements.
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She doesn't, She's proven that. But on the same token, if
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Knda Leeza Rice or because she would be the best one for the job.
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That's what I'm saying. We should people should be elected or given things based
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on their character if they're the best one for the job. I'm so tired
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of it being identity politics and deciding to do something based on someone's skin color.
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That's ridiculous. If you like to ask our American Mama's a question,
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go to our website American ground Radio dot com slash Mama and click on the
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ask the Mama buttons. Terry Netteville, thank you so much. Kimberly Burlison, thank you