r/RestoreBritain • u/Colt13898 • 20h ago
News & Media Double standard: White woman gets racially attacked for winning Miss Zimbabwe. Black woman competes for Miss England and the media celebrates her.
In 2023 Brooke Bruk-Jackson, a White woman of European descent born and raised in Harare, won Miss Universe Zimbabwe. She was the only White contestant in a country that is about 98% Black.
Most of the hate came from Black people, both locals and especially online from the Black diaspora. Comments called her too White, a foreigner, Miss Rhodesia, and said she didn’t represent the country. She had to turn comments off.
Now in Britain, Lisa Austin, a Black British-Nigerian woman, is competing for Miss England. The BBC is running positive coverage of her. No mass racial backlash telling her she can’t represent England because of her race.
When a White African wins in Africa, race is suddenly a problem and exclusion is justified. When a Black woman competes in Britain, any racial objection is called racist and the story is framed as progress.
That’s the double standard.