WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:05.280 It is The Jesse Kelly Show, another hour of The 2 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:10.240 Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. So you know 3 00:00:10.279 --> 00:00:12.279 what's about to come up this hour. I'll get to 4 00:00:12.279 --> 00:00:14.279 that here in a few I should let you know 5 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:20.000 in hour three there's some hopeful signs on the horizon 6 00:00:20.039 --> 00:00:24.640 about all this advancement in technology AI. I'll tell you 7 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:28.800 about something hopeful something terrible about the GOP. We'll again 8 00:00:28.920 --> 00:00:33.079 talk at least briefly about influencer campaigns. It looks like 9 00:00:33.159 --> 00:00:36.840 we've got some impeachments coming down the pike. Emails, all that, 10 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:39.960 so much more coming up in the third hour of 11 00:00:40.039 --> 00:00:45.359 The Jesse Kelly Show. But it's our two, and as promised, 12 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:48.039 we are now going to pick up where we left 13 00:00:48.039 --> 00:00:52.240 off last night and continue our history, a history not 14 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:57.840 many people know about the Rhodesian Bush War. If you 15 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:00.799 missed a lot of the background, so much of it 16 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:04.840 was background, It was tribal stuff. And if you miss that, 17 00:01:05.519 --> 00:01:07.480 I don't have time to recap it for you. Now 18 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:13.000 we must move on in the story. iHeart Spotify iTunes. 19 00:01:13.480 --> 00:01:16.519 You can go download the podcast. It's all free. There's 20 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.879 no charge for any of this. Our two of last night, 21 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:24.000 we gave a lot of the background. Your thirty second 22 00:01:24.040 --> 00:01:27.920 to one minute background. Is this. A man named Cecil 23 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:31.079 Rhodes grabbed a bunch of miners, other people, yes, women 24 00:01:31.120 --> 00:01:36.400 and children, walked into a tribal land, a tribal land 25 00:01:37.000 --> 00:01:40.760 that had stuff he wanted. They started to mine there. 26 00:01:41.319 --> 00:01:44.560 There were two historically there were more, but two main 27 00:01:45.239 --> 00:01:48.640 rival tribes there who'd hated each other and slaved each other, 28 00:01:48.719 --> 00:01:50.920 slaughtered each other, raped each other, and burned each other 29 00:01:50.959 --> 00:01:53.959 alive for a very long time. At some point they 30 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:56.599 did it in front of the Europeans. There was a 31 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:01.760 big uprising. The Europeans were mortified by such savagery, and 32 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:04.920 they stepped up and they said, okay, this place is 33 00:02:05.040 --> 00:02:09.319 kind of ours. Now this is done. You all, you people, 34 00:02:10.080 --> 00:02:14.120 you tribes, you tribesmen, you go over there. You other tribesmen, 35 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:20.319 you go over there. Now. This is what colonization looked 36 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:22.639 like a lot of the time. We're about to lay 37 00:02:22.639 --> 00:02:27.800 it out for the British Empire. Remember when your history 38 00:02:27.840 --> 00:02:33.319 professor in college was whining and crying about colonialism. That's 39 00:02:33.400 --> 00:02:36.639 actually kind of a ridiculous term because there are so 40 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:41.159 many different ways to quote colonize a country and let's 41 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:47.599 be honest, right now. Colonization is simply a more peaceful 42 00:02:48.840 --> 00:02:52.560 form of conquest. That's what it is. So let's just 43 00:02:52.599 --> 00:02:56.560 call it all conquest, shall we. There is a spectrum, 44 00:02:56.599 --> 00:03:00.039 isn't there? We could go with the old. Well, the 45 00:03:00.080 --> 00:03:04.520 easiest one would be Genghis Khan form of conquest. Hey, 46 00:03:05.319 --> 00:03:08.360 I really like your lands. I think I shall take 47 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:12.719 my gigantic army in there, and i will slaughter every man, 48 00:03:12.759 --> 00:03:16.280 woman and child. I'll even send a rearguard back to 49 00:03:16.400 --> 00:03:19.479 your city to ensure I killed all the pets, and 50 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.560 then I'll move in. That is obviously an extreme end 51 00:03:23.639 --> 00:03:26.919 of that spectrum, but that's how conquest has been done. 52 00:03:27.919 --> 00:03:33.719 Then there are other types. The French. The French would 53 00:03:33.719 --> 00:03:36.840 be more likely to kind of not really move in, 54 00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:40.639 but trade with you, right, They'll provide security, they'll trade 55 00:03:40.719 --> 00:03:44.879 with you. The Spanish. The Spanish were about as hands 56 00:03:44.919 --> 00:03:47.680 off with so much of their conquest as you can be. 57 00:03:47.800 --> 00:03:50.520 And I know about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and whatnot, 58 00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:54.240 but the Spanish and all their colonization or conquest, they 59 00:03:54.280 --> 00:03:56.400 really just kind of wanted the gold. Hey, just give 60 00:03:56.400 --> 00:04:00.479 me some gold. You have any gold, I'll take some gold. British, 61 00:04:01.120 --> 00:04:05.560 in my opinion, did it smarter than anyone else. Because 62 00:04:05.599 --> 00:04:10.599 here's what the British always believed about conquering colonizing any place. 63 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:14.960 The British believed that you should move in. They believe 64 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:17.920 that possession was nine tenths of the law. And you 65 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.759 can't ever really grab control of a place just by 66 00:04:21.839 --> 00:04:25.079 sending emissaries from Afar and picking up a shipment of 67 00:04:25.120 --> 00:04:30.399 gold along the coast. No, you needed your people physically 68 00:04:30.480 --> 00:04:34.519 building homes and schools and roads. You need your people 69 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:39.160 moving in and setting up shop. But wait, there's more. 70 00:04:39.399 --> 00:04:42.040 I don't want to make it sound all bad. You're 71 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:50.079 against conquest. They also believed in integrating the local population 72 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:54.480 as you moved in. The Brits did not want to 73 00:04:54.639 --> 00:04:59.319 slaughter everybody. They actually didn't want to send everyone away 74 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:02.360 as requ you geez. And we're talking about this spot 75 00:05:02.399 --> 00:05:04.879 in Africa Africa here, but Britain did this in many 76 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:09.240 other places. They wanted to find a way where Yes, 77 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:12.439 they took over. I'm not making them sound completely magnanimous here. 78 00:05:12.720 --> 00:05:16.319 They wanted to take over, but they also wanted to Hey, 79 00:05:16.360 --> 00:05:19.920 all these tribes and things like that, look will help 80 00:05:19.959 --> 00:05:22.759 you out too. How About how about some clothes, how 81 00:05:22.759 --> 00:05:26.199 about a job, how about access to medicine, how about 82 00:05:26.279 --> 00:05:30.319 how let's let's help let us help you too. You 83 00:05:30.600 --> 00:05:33.879 are gonna work for us, like you're gonna work under us. 84 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:37.240 Let's be honest, but we're gonna help each other here 85 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.519 your life will be better. And I don't want to 86 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:43.319 act as if they did this just out of the 87 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.000 kindness of their hearts. Of course there'd be some of that, 88 00:05:46.600 --> 00:05:48.680 but really, for the Brits, and this is why I 89 00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:52.319 think it was so brilliant, it just made more sense. 90 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:54.680 We want to take the place, we want to take 91 00:05:54.680 --> 00:05:59.279 it over. Slaughtering everybody generally doesn't work. It's hard to do, 92 00:05:59.399 --> 00:06:01.600 it's hard to make. As we've talked about before in 93 00:06:01.639 --> 00:06:03.720 the show, you can't really kill your way out of 94 00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:08.560 a problem. Usually that's difficult. But if you can somehow 95 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:13.240 make the people you're conquering, make their day to day 96 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:16.360 lives better, then you have to deal with a lot 97 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:20.639 less rebellion, a lot fewer problems. They might even go 98 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:24.839 along with it. And in fact, Rhodesia eventually we're not 99 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:28.079 quite there yet. Rhodesia kind of gets to that place 100 00:06:28.160 --> 00:06:32.000 for a while. But right now we are post this 101 00:06:32.040 --> 00:06:36.920 little tribal war. The English are mortified. The Europeans in 102 00:06:37.439 --> 00:06:40.439 Zimbabwe are mortified, and they say, okay, enough is enough. 103 00:06:40.480 --> 00:06:44.279 Now it's ours. But what does it's ours mean? Well, 104 00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.639 let's talk about what it was before the Europeans got there. 105 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:49.680 As you know, tribal lands. But what does that mean 106 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:54.560 tribal lands? Well, a tribe at least these tribes, the 107 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.199 way they worked, they would find some remote area, it's 108 00:06:59.240 --> 00:07:02.639 all remote, there's no civilization. They'd find an area that 109 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:05.399 had things they needed. And what does every tribe need? 110 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:08.040 Every tribe needs some way to eat. Maybe you're a 111 00:07:08.120 --> 00:07:12.199 hunting tribe, maybe you do agriculture. Every tribe needs water. 112 00:07:12.319 --> 00:07:15.720 Let's find a river, let's find something. Tribes are going 113 00:07:15.759 --> 00:07:19.600 to find locations that work for them and that's where 114 00:07:19.600 --> 00:07:23.079 they're going to build their village, their huts. That's how 115 00:07:23.079 --> 00:07:28.759 it's going to work. And in many ways, the tribes 116 00:07:28.800 --> 00:07:33.680 were extremely isolated. The villages were isolated from each other. 117 00:07:34.120 --> 00:07:37.720 These were people who didn't build roads, they didn't have 118 00:07:37.839 --> 00:07:41.959 the wheel you as a young boy, I mentioned the 119 00:07:42.040 --> 00:07:45.800 two tribes yesterday. I'll mention them again, the Shona and 120 00:07:45.879 --> 00:07:48.560 the Indobelly and by the way, the Indiebelly go buy 121 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:52.480 several names. I'm just calling them into belly, the Shona 122 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:54.879 in the Indobelly. If you were a young boy, you 123 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:58.759 were born in this village, for this Indobelly village, there 124 00:07:58.839 --> 00:08:03.920 is a reasonable chance you never left. Yeah, you would 125 00:08:03.920 --> 00:08:05.680 go out and you would go hunt, or maybe you 126 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.800 would go to war or something like that. But you 127 00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:12.360 certainly didn't bounce around the country. We modern day people, 128 00:08:12.519 --> 00:08:15.720 certainly modern day Americans, anyone, anyone living in a first 129 00:08:15.720 --> 00:08:19.920 world country live listening to me right now? You've been 130 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:22.879 on a road trip. How abnout you? Maybe you still 131 00:08:22.879 --> 00:08:27.240 live in your hometown, but you know what a place 132 00:08:27.279 --> 00:08:30.199 one hundred miles from you looks like, don't you? Of 133 00:08:30.240 --> 00:08:33.360 course you're almost probably scoffing. I'm laughing. Of course everyone does. 134 00:08:33.720 --> 00:08:37.759 Maybe you've even been on a plane. That way of 135 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:42.879 thinking is totally foreign to these people who live in 136 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:46.080 this area. What's one of the very first things the 137 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:50.759 Europeans start to do. Roads, They start to build roads, 138 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:55.639 they start to build train tracks. Why well, they're moving 139 00:08:55.720 --> 00:08:59.960 goods and services and people to and fro and now 140 00:09:00.720 --> 00:09:07.120 they're connecting villages that had previously never been connected before. 141 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.639 The African people in some time, in some ways they're 142 00:09:11.679 --> 00:09:15.639 moving to and fro in ways they've never moved before. 143 00:09:16.360 --> 00:09:20.279 And in some ways they're getting run out of an area. 144 00:09:20.840 --> 00:09:23.799 If the English, if the europe let's stop calling them English, 145 00:09:23.799 --> 00:09:26.639 because there were people from all over the European world. 146 00:09:27.399 --> 00:09:31.279 If the Europeans wanted that area, remember they decided they 147 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:36.159 were in charge. Now they said you need to leave. Well, 148 00:09:37.279 --> 00:09:40.720 they were also integrating the local population, as I mentioned, 149 00:09:41.039 --> 00:09:43.919 they tried to do that. They really believed in doing that. 150 00:09:44.159 --> 00:09:47.759 Let's find a way to weave these people into our society. 151 00:09:48.559 --> 00:09:51.600 And remember there weren't very many Europeans at the time, 152 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:54.519 not very many at all. They were way outnumbered by 153 00:09:54.559 --> 00:10:01.639 the tribesmen. So crime, for instance, you don't have this 154 00:10:02.080 --> 00:10:06.840 large European police force, what do you do for cops? 155 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:12.360 Every area needs cops. Well, that can create problems if 156 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.600 you don't understand the area you're taking over. It is 157 00:10:15.960 --> 00:10:21.279 the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic, Fantastic Wednesday, a 158 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:23.960 hump Day, doing part two of our history of the 159 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.240 Rhodesian Bush War. Remember you can email us your love, 160 00:10:27.279 --> 00:10:31.279 your hate, your death threats, Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 161 00:10:31.639 --> 00:10:34.120 The Europeans are starting to take over. They're starting to 162 00:10:34.120 --> 00:10:37.000 build roads, they're starting to build trains, They're starting to 163 00:10:37.039 --> 00:10:40.600 connect African villages that have never been connected before. They're 164 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:44.360 starting to run Africans out of certain places. Now this 165 00:10:44.440 --> 00:10:46.799 is where this is why I keep bringing up the 166 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:51.000 two tribes, because these two tribes, the fact that there 167 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:55.320 are two tribes who hate each other, is always going 168 00:10:55.399 --> 00:10:58.919 to come into play in this entire story, right up 169 00:10:58.960 --> 00:11:01.600 to the horrible brutal ending of it. Not to give 170 00:11:01.639 --> 00:11:07.159 the whole thing away, Remember before these guys even got here, 171 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:11.080 the Shonah had been conquered by the end of Belly. 172 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:16.240 They were slaves under the end of Belly. Those kinds 173 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:20.360 of hard feelings don't go away easily. And the Europeans 174 00:11:20.519 --> 00:11:24.840 just got there, they just arrived five minutes ago. It's 175 00:11:24.960 --> 00:11:30.159 hard to understand everything about the culture you're conquering. It's 176 00:11:30.200 --> 00:11:35.480 hard to understand old tribal rivalries and bad blood. It's 177 00:11:35.519 --> 00:11:40.960 hard to understand the religious significance, different significance of different things, 178 00:11:41.360 --> 00:11:43.399 for instance, And this is going to come into play 179 00:11:44.080 --> 00:11:47.360 for virtually all these tribes. You know what was really 180 00:11:47.399 --> 00:11:51.320 a currency for them, almost a sacred level of currency, 181 00:11:51.360 --> 00:11:55.080 a status symbol. Cattle. How many cattle do how many 182 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.000 cows do you have? You have a lot of cattle. 183 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:00.159 Oh you've only got three. Oh that sucks, Chris, I've 184 00:12:00.200 --> 00:12:03.159 got five. Must suck to be so low class. I 185 00:12:03.159 --> 00:12:05.480 mean you're laughing, But that's how that's how it worked. 186 00:12:05.600 --> 00:12:08.960 If you were a king, part of that status would 187 00:12:08.960 --> 00:12:11.519 be look at all of our cattle. Well what are 188 00:12:11.600 --> 00:12:14.080 cattle to the Europeans at this point in time? Just 189 00:12:14.200 --> 00:12:17.440 what they're beef? It's beef or it's mail. It's no 190 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:19.679 big deal. You raise them, you kill them, you whatever. 191 00:12:20.200 --> 00:12:22.159 It's just one of those things they didn't quite get. 192 00:12:23.159 --> 00:12:25.559 They also needed a police force, and they're trying to 193 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:29.519 integrate the local tribes. But let me ask you something. 194 00:12:31.440 --> 00:12:33.360 Do you ever have any bad blood in your family? 195 00:12:35.279 --> 00:12:39.039 Every family has it, maybe even in your town, a 196 00:12:39.159 --> 00:12:44.360 rival town, a rival family. Arrival, this arrival that I 197 00:12:44.399 --> 00:12:47.639 want you to imagine this when it comes to Zimbabwe 198 00:12:47.720 --> 00:12:51.600 that we're talking about right now. Let's say your people, 199 00:12:52.879 --> 00:12:59.440 your people had historically kept the Shona as slaves and slavery. Remember, 200 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:05.200 was not touchy feely, not at all ugly things for 201 00:13:05.279 --> 00:13:10.919 women children. Let's just say maybe your mother had been 202 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:16.879 a slave of the endobelly. You're now twenty five years old. 203 00:13:17.840 --> 00:13:20.720 Your mother raised you with those stories of what the 204 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:26.120 Indibelly did to them. The Europeans knock on the door 205 00:13:26.159 --> 00:13:32.120 of your hut and they're handing you a policeman's uniform, 206 00:13:33.200 --> 00:13:38.720 because now you are going to help police some of 207 00:13:38.759 --> 00:13:43.360 the indobelly areas and you have the power of law 208 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:48.559 enforcement behind your badge. You don't have some oath you 209 00:13:48.639 --> 00:13:53.240 take or even believe in. You're a tribesman who's historically 210 00:13:53.279 --> 00:13:57.799 been at war, and that tribe has historically abused your family. 211 00:13:58.159 --> 00:14:01.600 And now you're about to get a weapon and two 212 00:14:01.679 --> 00:14:04.360 or three of your cop buddies and you're about to 213 00:14:04.440 --> 00:14:08.360 walk into their area. Do you think there would be 214 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:17.399 any temptation to abuse that kind of power. This happened often. 215 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:22.879 The Europeans were having and will always have such a 216 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:29.080 difficult time keeping the tribes separate from each other, understanding 217 00:14:29.200 --> 00:14:33.279 the depth of hatred they have for each other. There 218 00:14:33.399 --> 00:14:39.080 was African police abuse, African on African police abuse all 219 00:14:39.440 --> 00:14:44.000 over the place. Combine that with this I already talked 220 00:14:44.039 --> 00:14:46.759 about historically how these tribes worked, they lived in their 221 00:14:46.799 --> 00:14:51.639 little villages. Now they're being moved onto what are essentially reservations. 222 00:14:52.480 --> 00:14:56.279 They're getting moved away from their historic homelands. They're not 223 00:14:56.440 --> 00:15:00.639 thrilled about it. Now let's add one more to it. 224 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:04.000 And this is a long complicated affair. For the sake 225 00:15:04.039 --> 00:15:06.480 of not having this be a ten episode thing, I'm 226 00:15:06.519 --> 00:15:09.559 fast forwarding through some things. There gets to be a 227 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:15.559 plague with the cows. What do the Europeans do when 228 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.919 there's a cow plague? They do what any civilized society 229 00:15:19.919 --> 00:15:24.120 would do, and they start to kill the cows. I 230 00:15:24.399 --> 00:15:29.600 just got done explaining cows are sacred to these people, 231 00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:34.399 a status symbol to these people. As a European, you 232 00:15:34.480 --> 00:15:37.840 may have everyone's best interests at heart. When you send 233 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:41.960 a few guys onto somebody's land and shoot twenty of 234 00:15:41.960 --> 00:15:46.919 his cows in the head, he is almost undoubtedly going 235 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:53.919 to interpret that act differently than you do. It's bad. 236 00:15:55.000 --> 00:16:01.519 Rebellion breaks out. Rebellion breaks out. In fact, you should know. 237 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.799 I won't tell you the name of it because it's 238 00:16:04.840 --> 00:16:08.440 another detail. I'm already drowning you in details. But they 239 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.000 consider the Rhodesian Bush War to be the second version 240 00:16:12.159 --> 00:16:14.759 of this rebellion, that's what they call it. This is 241 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:19.559 the first of these rebellions. The tribes rise up, they rebel. 242 00:16:20.240 --> 00:16:23.200 They are not as technologically advanced they do, however, have 243 00:16:23.279 --> 00:16:30.440 the numbers. It's slaughter, it's destruction. They're doing things like 244 00:16:30.639 --> 00:16:33.600 one miner he had worked with ten Africans on a 245 00:16:33.679 --> 00:16:37.600 mine for a long time. He then found himself with 246 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:40.840 them crawling into the mind trying to beat him to 247 00:16:40.919 --> 00:16:45.279 death one night. There are some stories I'll tell you 248 00:16:45.320 --> 00:16:49.120 in a moment. It is the Jesse Kelly Show on 249 00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:53.200 a Wonderful Wednesday talking about the land down under Africa 250 00:16:53.200 --> 00:16:57.240 tonight as we go, Quit what, Chris, I'm not a geologist, 251 00:16:57.320 --> 00:16:59.399 all right, I don't know everything. All right. Back to 252 00:16:59.440 --> 00:17:03.919 our history of the Rhodesian Bush War. The Europeans had 253 00:17:03.919 --> 00:17:06.720 set up the trains, they'd set up the villages. The 254 00:17:06.839 --> 00:17:09.799 tribes were hating each other. The tribes were not liking 255 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:13.559 this European rule, and they broke out in rebellion. Now, 256 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.599 this is nothing like the rebellion that will happen during 257 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:21.839 the Rhodesian Bush War. This is completely disorganized. There aren't 258 00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:26.000 any central leaders. And remember the two tribes hate each 259 00:17:26.039 --> 00:17:29.599 other as much as they hate the Europeans. So what 260 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:33.640 does this rebellion look like? It sounds horrifying, but it's 261 00:17:33.759 --> 00:17:40.279 essentially small areas where panic gets inflamed, anger gets inflamed, 262 00:17:40.680 --> 00:17:48.599 and it's oftentimes led by local religious leaders, local tribal 263 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:52.640 religious leaders, you know, all these weird tribal false religions. 264 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:57.799 Local religious leaders would get their local area to rise 265 00:17:57.960 --> 00:18:02.319 up against the white invaders, the European invaders. I told 266 00:18:02.319 --> 00:18:05.559 you briefly about that story of the miner. Well you 267 00:18:05.599 --> 00:18:08.200 know how most of that story went. He walked out 268 00:18:08.200 --> 00:18:11.720 of his house to find ten Africans who he had 269 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:14.559 worked with on the mine, not slaves or something like that, 270 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:16.880 you know, working with him every day lunch wages that 271 00:18:16.920 --> 00:18:22.680 there were co workers with war clubs. This animal manages 272 00:18:22.799 --> 00:18:25.519 to wrestle one of the war clubs from him. They 273 00:18:25.559 --> 00:18:29.599 start beating him. He starts swinging back and beating them. 274 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:32.559 He makes his way all the way into the mind 275 00:18:32.599 --> 00:18:36.400 shaft where he rolls down into the mind shaft, and 276 00:18:36.480 --> 00:18:39.440 then he has more miners in the mind shaft who 277 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:42.279 he's worked with, who he thinks will come to his aid, 278 00:18:42.559 --> 00:18:46.400 and they start beating him too. He starts fighting them off. 279 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.000 He's fighting his way through the mines. These things happen. 280 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:55.079 In another incident, two guys are sitting there, there are 281 00:18:55.160 --> 00:18:59.720 women and children hidden behind them, and the tribesmen have 282 00:18:59.839 --> 00:19:03.960 so rounded the mine and they are essentially getting ready 283 00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:07.599 to kill everyone in it. The two dudes make a 284 00:19:07.799 --> 00:19:09.680 break for it. What are they making a break for. 285 00:19:10.200 --> 00:19:14.039 They're going for the telegraph line so they can telegraph 286 00:19:14.039 --> 00:19:17.440 for help so the women and children won't die. They 287 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.559 book it. One of them, actually both of them end 288 00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:23.920 up making it the entire way to the telegraph hut. 289 00:19:24.279 --> 00:19:28.599 One holds the door closed from the angry tribesman behind him, 290 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.480 while the other gets on the telegraph machine and telegraphs 291 00:19:32.519 --> 00:19:36.720 the message out. Eventually the door is kicked down and 292 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.759 both men die with African spears sticking out from all 293 00:19:41.960 --> 00:19:46.960 over their bodies. This is taking place all across Zimbabwe 294 00:19:47.480 --> 00:19:51.400 at this time, but as I said, it is not unified. 295 00:19:51.759 --> 00:19:57.480 It is poorly led. And eventually the Europeans raise for themselves, 296 00:19:57.559 --> 00:20:00.200 or they should say, they get back their army. Long 297 00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:02.839 story I won't go into. Most of their fighting men 298 00:20:03.039 --> 00:20:05.759 had gone to fight somewhere else and they'd been captured. 299 00:20:06.400 --> 00:20:09.480 They get their fighting men, and their fighting men are 300 00:20:09.640 --> 00:20:13.119 organized and they are well led, and they start to 301 00:20:13.160 --> 00:20:17.279 put this rebellion down. They put it down to such effect. 302 00:20:17.519 --> 00:20:21.599 The rebels are now starving. The rebels are hiding in caves, 303 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:27.240 and the Europeans are dynamiting rebels out of caves, dynamiting 304 00:20:27.279 --> 00:20:31.279 the entrance, starving them. And there's an or horrible, horrible, 305 00:20:31.359 --> 00:20:36.039 ugly affair. Cecil Rhodes, the guy who started all this, 306 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:41.000 he brings all the tribal leaders together finally after a 307 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:46.119 very vicious little war, and he negotiates a peace because 308 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:52.359 the tribes are starving. They're starving. They're done. Only now, 309 00:20:52.480 --> 00:20:58.039 this is the problem with rebellion, when you lose one. 310 00:20:58.200 --> 00:21:03.160 If you lose one, you are always going to end 311 00:21:03.279 --> 00:21:07.079 up worse off than you were before. If you're going 312 00:21:07.119 --> 00:21:10.839 to rebel, you better win. The whole history of the 313 00:21:10.880 --> 00:21:13.160 world proves this to be the case. It's almost weird 314 00:21:13.160 --> 00:21:16.319 when you look back and you wonder why so many 315 00:21:16.319 --> 00:21:19.680 people rebelled. We're going to rebel against Babylon. Oh no, 316 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:22.200 we're all skinned alive. I mean, it just doesn't it 317 00:21:22.240 --> 00:21:27.160 doesn't work. Now they have no more control. And now 318 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:33.240 after the negotiated peace, now Britain is no longer doing that. Well, 319 00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:35.880 it's not really our thing. It's kind of a private 320 00:21:36.160 --> 00:21:41.559 enterprise thing. Nope, now this is the nineteen twenties. Now 321 00:21:41.599 --> 00:21:46.960 Britain says no, no, no, no, no, it's our country now. Now. 322 00:21:47.119 --> 00:21:52.559 They even gave it a name, South Rhodesia. By the way, 323 00:21:52.599 --> 00:21:55.240 in case you're wondering, Yes, that name comes from the 324 00:21:55.319 --> 00:21:59.519 name Cecil Rhodes And no he didn't name it. In fact, 325 00:21:59.640 --> 00:22:01.799 he didn't even like the name, which is weird. I've 326 00:22:01.839 --> 00:22:04.400 always wanted a country named after me. That is not 327 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.559 what he preferred at all, but Rhodesia. Only at this 328 00:22:07.640 --> 00:22:11.799 point in time, it's named South Rhodesia. Let's fast forward 329 00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:16.319 just a little bit. They are locking in their control 330 00:22:16.519 --> 00:22:20.160 of the area. They're building whole cities. Now, they're trying 331 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:23.839 to modernize this country as possible in a long comes 332 00:22:23.880 --> 00:22:27.720 World War two. This part is going to be important 333 00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:31.559 for our story as we move along. I already told 334 00:22:31.599 --> 00:22:33.720 you the kind of people last night, the kind of 335 00:22:33.759 --> 00:22:37.440 Europeans who came here. These were not convicts who just 336 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:43.519 got out. These were not idiot's welfare recipients. In many ways, 337 00:22:43.559 --> 00:22:46.079 it was the cream of the crop for Europeans and 338 00:22:46.119 --> 00:22:50.000 their children. They were tough as nails as well, not 339 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.240 these effeminate, you know, pinky out people. Tough as nails. 340 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:57.039 And they also had because there were so few of them, 341 00:22:57.079 --> 00:22:59.000 and a country that was so big, with so many 342 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:05.720 bigger tribes, mandatory military service for all the males. It 343 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:10.920 is the Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Monday. I swear, 344 00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:13.880 if you're suffering, we'll be back to politics in ten minutes. 345 00:23:13.880 --> 00:23:17.440 But we're doing part two of the Rhodesian bush War. Now. 346 00:23:17.559 --> 00:23:21.759 We just finished the rebellion. The Europeans put down the rebellion. 347 00:23:22.920 --> 00:23:26.640 Britton essentially decided, okay, that's enough of all this playing games. 348 00:23:26.680 --> 00:23:28.839 Now it's a country. Now, it's our country. In fact, 349 00:23:28.839 --> 00:23:31.599 we're slapping a name on it now it's called South Rhodesia. 350 00:23:31.720 --> 00:23:35.160 And well, the way it works is, of course, World 351 00:23:35.200 --> 00:23:39.599 War two breaks out. The Rhodesians, as I mentioned, black 352 00:23:39.640 --> 00:23:44.359 and white military men went off and fought valiantly for 353 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:48.000 the Brits. That will end up mattering later on. But 354 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:51.920 something else happens, and this is the ugly part of life, 355 00:23:51.960 --> 00:23:54.680 the ironic, I guess I should should say part of life. 356 00:23:55.279 --> 00:24:02.599 In a lot of ways war can be good for economies. Certainly, 357 00:24:02.720 --> 00:24:07.279 if you are a country that produces stuff, war can 358 00:24:07.319 --> 00:24:10.759 be very good for you. Why are the Europeans in 359 00:24:10.920 --> 00:24:15.880 Rhodesia to begin with? It's rich with resources, The land 360 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:20.039 is wonderful for agriculture. There are things to mine there. 361 00:24:20.519 --> 00:24:26.240 And guess which empire needs stuff right about now? Well 362 00:24:26.279 --> 00:24:28.519 the Allies, well all of them, but the Allies need it. 363 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:38.680 The economy starts booming, booming, there are huge checks coming 364 00:24:38.720 --> 00:24:45.839 into Rhodesia because the Allies needs stuff. Well, this is Africa, 365 00:24:47.480 --> 00:24:50.599 we already mentioned. It's a rough place. It's been a 366 00:24:50.680 --> 00:24:55.240 rough place, just has not become a modern continent. Ever, 367 00:24:56.720 --> 00:25:00.279 what do you think happens when the Rhodesian econo enomy 368 00:25:00.440 --> 00:25:05.480 starts booming. The word goes out. The word goes out 369 00:25:05.559 --> 00:25:08.920 to all the other countries around there who may be struggling. 370 00:25:09.000 --> 00:25:11.839 There's always a famine, always a war, always a plague. 371 00:25:12.599 --> 00:25:18.119 And more Africans start pouring into Rhodesia looking for work, 372 00:25:18.519 --> 00:25:25.000 looking for an opportunity, and they find them. But as 373 00:25:25.680 --> 00:25:31.759 usually happens, the war doesn't last forever. And after the 374 00:25:31.799 --> 00:25:34.440 war is over, let's say let's say it's the year 375 00:25:34.519 --> 00:25:37.079 nineteen forty one in your Rhodesia, just for the sake 376 00:25:37.119 --> 00:25:41.599 of argument, and your economy starts booming. Everyone knows it. 377 00:25:41.640 --> 00:25:44.599 Everyone in Africa knows it. And so let's just say 378 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.279 you get a million, two million Africans from other countries 379 00:25:48.359 --> 00:25:51.240 coming in to take advantage of the opportunity to feed 380 00:25:51.240 --> 00:25:54.279 their families, clothed themselves, you know, all those things. But 381 00:25:54.400 --> 00:26:00.680 then nineteen forty five rolls around in bip war over. Well, 382 00:26:01.920 --> 00:26:05.000 there's still a market obviously for crops and chrome and 383 00:26:05.039 --> 00:26:08.319 the other things they mind, but not near the market 384 00:26:08.359 --> 00:26:12.359 it once was. Well, now all those people have already 385 00:26:12.359 --> 00:26:18.640 come in, Now they've already brought jobs in. Now there's 386 00:26:18.759 --> 00:26:22.519 not as much economic opportunity to go around, yet the 387 00:26:22.599 --> 00:26:27.799 people are still there. This creates a situation that from 388 00:26:27.839 --> 00:26:32.920 the outside looking in, looks terrible. The situation being this, 389 00:26:34.119 --> 00:26:41.039 you have these extremely wealthy, modern looking, mostly white, although 390 00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:44.640 there were plenty of black people. There are extremely modern, 391 00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:48.119 wealthy looking towns that would have looked like any town 392 00:26:48.279 --> 00:26:53.240 in America, any city in Europe popping up. Only on 393 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:59.839 the outskirts there are extremely run down, poor, all black 394 00:27:00.440 --> 00:27:04.720 shanty towns that start popping up. The reason this is 395 00:27:04.799 --> 00:27:10.920 so disastrous is post World War Two, there was a 396 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:14.200 thing that was happening globally. It wasn't just to Britain. 397 00:27:15.279 --> 00:27:22.559 After World War Two, countries that had empires overseas started 398 00:27:22.599 --> 00:27:26.079 to give them up. Sometimes they fought hard for them, 399 00:27:26.160 --> 00:27:28.880 you know, this was the French in Vietnam. Whe they 400 00:27:28.920 --> 00:27:31.680 eventually lost that, but they fought hard trying to keep it. 401 00:27:32.359 --> 00:27:35.559