WEBVTT - History Lesson 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:05.280 It is The Jesse Kelly Show, another hour of The 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:10.200 Jesse Kelly Show on a magnificent Wednesday. So you know 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:12.240 what's about to come up this hour. I'll get to 0:00:12.280 --> 0:00:14.280 that here in a few I should let you know 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:20.000 in hour three there's some hopeful signs on the horizon 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:24.560 about all this advancement in technology AI. I'll tell you 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:28.800 about something hopeful something terrible about the GOP. We'll again 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:33.040 talk at least briefly about influencer campaigns. It looks like 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.839 we've got some impeachments coming down the pike. Emails, all that, 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.960 so much more coming up in the third hour of 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:45.360 The Jesse Kelly Show. But it's our two, and as promised, 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:48.000 we are now going to pick up where we left 0:00:48.040 --> 0:00:52.199 off last night and continue our history, a history not 0:00:52.320 --> 0:00:57.840 many people know about the Rhodesian Bush War. If you 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.800 missed a lot of the background, so much of it 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.760 was background, It was tribal stuff. And if you miss that, 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.480 I don't have time to recap it for you. Now 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:13.000 we must move on in the story. iHeart Spotify iTunes. 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:16.520 You can go download the podcast. It's all free. There's 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.840 no charge for any of this. Our two of last night, 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.920 we gave a lot of the background. Your thirty second 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:27.920 to one minute background. Is this. A man named Cecil 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.080 Rhodes grabbed a bunch of miners, other people, yes, women 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:36.360 and children, walked into a tribal land, a tribal land 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:40.760 that had stuff he wanted. They started to mine there. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.559 There were two historically there were more, but two main 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:48.640 rival tribes there who'd hated each other and slaved each other, 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:50.920 slaughtered each other, raped each other, and burned each other 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.960 alive for a very long time. At some point they 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.560 did it in front of the Europeans. There was a 0:01:56.600 --> 0:02:01.720 big uprising. The Europeans were mortified by such savagery, and 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.880 they stepped up and they said, okay, this place is 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.320 kind of ours. Now this is done. You all, you people, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:14.120 you tribes, you tribesmen, you go over there. You other tribesmen, 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:20.280 you go over there. Now. This is what colonization looked 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.600 like a lot of the time. We're about to lay 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.800 it out for the British Empire. Remember when your history 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:33.320 professor in college was whining and crying about colonialism. That's 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:36.640 actually kind of a ridiculous term because there are so 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.200 many different ways to quote colonize a country and let's 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:47.560 be honest, right now. Colonization is simply a more peaceful 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:52.560 form of conquest. That's what it is. So let's just 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:56.560 call it all conquest, shall we. There is a spectrum, 0:02:56.600 --> 0:03:00.040 isn't there? We could go with the old. Well, the 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:04.520 easiest one would be Genghis Khan form of conquest. Hey, 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.360 I really like your lands. I think I shall take 0:03:08.440 --> 0:03:12.720 my gigantic army in there, and i will slaughter every man, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:16.280 woman and child. I'll even send a rearguard back to 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:19.480 your city to ensure I killed all the pets, and 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:23.600 then I'll move in. That is obviously an extreme end 0:03:23.639 --> 0:03:26.919 of that spectrum, but that's how conquest has been done. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:33.679 Then there are other types. The French. The French would 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.840 be more likely to kind of not really move in, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:40.640 but trade with you, right, They'll provide security, they'll trade 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.840 with you. The Spanish. The Spanish were about as hands 0:03:44.880 --> 0:03:47.680 off with so much of their conquest as you can be. 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.560 And I know about the Spanish conquest of Mexico and whatnot, 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:54.200 but the Spanish and all their colonization or conquest, they 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:56.360 really just kind of wanted the gold. Hey, just give 0:03:56.400 --> 0:04:00.480 me some gold. You have any gold, I'll take some gold. British, 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:05.560 in my opinion, did it smarter than anyone else. Because 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:10.600 here's what the British always believed about conquering colonizing any place. 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.920 The British believed that you should move in. They believe 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.920 that possession was nine tenths of the law. And you 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:21.760 can't ever really grab control of a place just by 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.080 sending emissaries from Afar and picking up a shipment of 0:04:25.120 --> 0:04:30.400 gold along the coast. No, you needed your people physically 0:04:30.440 --> 0:04:34.520 building homes and schools and roads. You need your people 0:04:35.040 --> 0:04:39.159 moving in and setting up shop. But wait, there's more. 0:04:39.400 --> 0:04:41.880 I don't want to make it sound all bad if 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:49.240 you're against conquest. They also believed in integrating the local 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:54.280 population as you moved in. The Brits did not want 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:58.960 to slaughter everybody. They actually didn't want to send everyone 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.000 away as refe you geez. And we're talking about this 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.599 spot in Africa, Africa here, but Britain did this in 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:09.200 many other places. They wanted to find a way where, Yes, 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:12.400 they took over. I'm not making them sound completely magnanimous here. 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.279 They wanted to take over, but they also wanted to Hey, 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:19.880 all these tribes and things like that. Look will help 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:22.760 you out too. How About how about some clothes, how 0:05:22.760 --> 0:05:26.200 about a job, how about access to medicine, how about 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.320 how let's let's help let us help you too. You 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.880 are gonna work for us, like you're gonna work under us. 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:37.240 Let's be honest, but we're gonna help each other here. 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.520 Your life will be better. And I don't want to 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.279 act as if they did this just out of the 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.960 kindness of their hearts. Of course there'd be some of that, 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.640 but really, for the Brits, and this is why I 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.320 think it was so brilliant, it just made more sense. 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.640 We want to take the place, we want to take 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:59.279 it over. Slaughtering everybody generally doesn't work. It's hard to do, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:01.599 it's hard to make. As we've talked about before in 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.719 the show, you can't really kill your way out of 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:08.560 a problem. Usually that's difficult. But if you can somehow 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:13.239 make the people you're conquering, make their day to day 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.360 lives better, then you have to deal with a lot 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:20.560 less rebellion, a lot fewer problems. They might even go 0:06:20.720 --> 0:06:24.800 along with it. And in fact, Rhodesia eventually we're not 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.080 quite there yet. Rhodesia kind of gets to that place 0:06:28.120 --> 0:06:31.960 for a while, but right now we are post this 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:36.920 little tribal war. The English are mortified. The Europeans in 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.440 Zimbabwe are mortified, and they say, okay, enough is enough. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.279 Now it's ours. But what does it's ours mean? Well, 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:47.640 let's talk about what it was before the Europeans got there. 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:49.680 As you know, tribal lands. But what does that mean 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:54.520 tribal lands? Well, a tribe at least these tribes, the 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:59.200 way they worked, they would find some remote area, it's 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.640 all remote, there's no civilization. They'd find an area that 0:07:02.760 --> 0:07:05.400 had things they needed. And what does every tribe need? 0:07:05.400 --> 0:07:08.039 Every tribe needs some way to eat. Maybe you're a 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:12.160 hunting tribe, maybe you do agriculture. Every tribe needs water. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.680 Let's find a river, let's find something. Tribes are going 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:19.560 to find locations that work for them and that's where 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.040 they're going to build their village, their huts. That's how 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:28.760 it's going to work. And in many ways, the tribes 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:33.679 were extremely isolated. The villages were isolated from each other. 0:07:34.120 --> 0:07:37.680 These were people who didn't build roads, they didn't have 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:42.000 the wheel you as a young boy. I mentioned the 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:45.720 two tribes yesterday. I'll mention them again, the Shona and 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.560 the Indobelly and by the way, the Indiebelly go buy 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:52.480 several names. I'm just calling them into belly, the Shona 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.880 in the Indobelly. If you were a young boy, you 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.720 were born in this village, for this Indobelly village, there 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:03.880 is a reasonable chance you never left. Yeah, you would 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:05.680 go out and you would go hunt, or maybe you 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.800 would go to war or something like that. But you 0:08:07.880 --> 0:08:12.400 certainly didn't bounce around the country. We modern day people, 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:15.720 certainly modern day Americans, anyone, anyone living in a first 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:20.000 world country listening to me right now, you've been on 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:23.000 a road trip. How about you? Maybe you still live 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:27.360 in your hometown, but you know what a place one 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:30.440 hundred miles from you looks like, don't you. Of course 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:33.360 you're almost probably scoffing. I'm laughing. Of course everyone does. 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.760 Maybe you've even been on a plane. That way of 0:08:37.840 --> 0:08:42.880 thinking is totally foreign to these people who live in 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:46.040 this area. What's one of the very first things the 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:50.720 Europeans start to do. Roads, They start to build roads, 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.640 they start to build train tracks. Why well, they're moving 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.960 goods and services and people to and fro and now 0:09:00.720 --> 0:09:07.119 they're connecting villages that had previously never been connected before 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:11.640 the African people in some time. In some ways they're 0:09:11.640 --> 0:09:15.600 moving to and fro in ways they've never moved before. 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:20.240 And in some ways they're getting run out of an area. 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:23.760 If the English, if the europe let's stop calling them English, 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.600 because there were people from all over the European world. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.280 If the Europeans wanted that area, remember they decided they 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:36.120 were in charge. Now they said you need to leave. Well, 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.720 they were also integrating the local population, as I mentioned, 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.880 they tried to do that. They really believed in doing that. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.719 Let's find a way to weave these people into our society. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.600 And remember there weren't very many Europeans at the time, 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:54.400 not very many at all. They were way out numbered 0:09:54.400 --> 0:10:01.400 by the tribesmen. So crime, for instance, you don't have 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:06.840 this large European police force, what do you do for cops? 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:12.320 Every area needs cops. Well, that can create problems if 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.560 you don't understand the area you're taking over. It is 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:21.280 the Jesse Kelly Show on a fantastic, Fantastic Wednesday, a 0:10:21.360 --> 0:10:23.920 hump Day, doing part two of our history of the 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.240 Rhodesian Bush War. Remember you can email us your love, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:31.280 your hate, your death threats. Jesse at Jesse kellyshow dot com. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.120 The Europeans are starting to take over. They're starting to 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:37.000 build roads, they're starting to build trains, They're starting to 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.560 connect African villages that have never been connected before. They're 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:44.319 starting to run Africans out of certain places. Now, this 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.800 is where, this is why I keep bringing up the 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:50.959 two tribes, because these two tribes, the fact that there 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.320 are two tribes who hate each other, is always going 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:58.920 to come into play in this entire story, right up 0:10:58.960 --> 0:11:01.600 to the horrible brutal ending of it. Not to give 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:07.120 the whole thing away, Remember before these guys even got here, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:11.080 the Shonah had been conquered by the end of Belly. 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:16.240 They were slaves under the end of Belly. Those kinds 0:11:16.240 --> 0:11:20.360 of hard feelings don't go away easily. And the Europeans 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:24.800 just got there, they just arrived five minutes ago. It's 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:30.160 hard to understand everything about the culture you're conquering. It's 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:35.480 hard to understand old tribal rivalries and bad blood. It's 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:40.960 hard to understand the religious significance, different significance of different things, 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:43.360 for instance, And this is going to come into play 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.360 for virtually all these tribes. You know, what was really 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.280 a currency for them almost a sacred level of currency, 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.080 a status symbol. Cattle. How many cattle do how many 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.000 cows do you have? You have a lot of cattle. 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.679 Oh you've only got three? Oh that sucks. Chris got five? 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.800 Must suck to be so low class. I mean you're laughing, 0:12:03.840 --> 0:12:06.040 But that's how that's how it worked. If you were 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.880 a king, part of that status would be look at 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.200 all of our cattle. Well, what are cattle to the 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:15.240 Europeans at this point in time? Just what they're beef? 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:18.000 It's beef or it's milk. It's no big deal. You 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.719 raise them, you killed them, whatever, It's just one of 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:24.080 those things they didn't quite get. They also needed a 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:27.160 police force, and they're trying to integrate the local tribes. 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.880 But let me ask you something. Do you ever have 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:36.079 any bad blood in your family? Every family has it, 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:41.640 maybe even in your town, a rival town, a rival family. Arrival, 0:12:41.679 --> 0:12:46.160 this arrival that I want you to imagine this when 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:49.120 it comes to Zimbabwe that we're talking about right now. 0:12:49.960 --> 0:12:55.120 Let's say your people, your people had historically kept the 0:12:55.200 --> 0:13:01.679 Shona as slaves and slavery. Remember was not touchy feely, 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:08.040 not at all ugly things for women, children, Let's just 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:13.240 say maybe your mother had been a slave of the endobelly. 0:13:14.440 --> 0:13:18.880 You're now twenty five years old. Your mother raised you 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.880 with those stories of what the Indibelly did to them. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:28.320 The Europeans knock on the door of your hut and 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:36.079 they're handing you a policeman's uniform, because now you are 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:41.400 going to help police some of the indobelly areas and 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.119 you have the power of law enforcement behind your badge. 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:50.040 You don't have some oath you take or even believe in. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:54.839 You're a tribesman who's historically been at war, and that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:59.920 tribe has historically abused your family. And now you're about 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:02.360 to get a weapon and two or three of your 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:06.520 cop buddies and you're about to walk into their area. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:12.960 Do you think there would be any temptation to abuse 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:19.880 that kind of power. This happened often. The Europeans were 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:25.120 having and will always have such a difficult time keeping 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:30.120 the tribes separate from each other, understanding the depth of 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:35.440 hatred they have for each other. There was African police abuse, 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:41.520 African on African police abuse all over the place. Combine 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:45.280 that with this I already talked about historically how these 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.560 tribes worked, they lived, in their little villages. Now they're 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:53.240 being moved onto what are essentially reservations. They're getting moved 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:58.160 away from their historic homelands. They're not thrilled about it. Now, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.760 let's add one more l to it. And this is 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:04.680 a long complicated affair. For the sake of not having 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.440 this be a ten episode thing, I'm fast forwarding through 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:12.040 some things. There gets to be a plague with the cows. 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:16.800 What do the Europeans do when there's a cow plague? 0:15:17.600 --> 0:15:21.640 They do what any civilized society would do, and they 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.800 start to kill the cows. I just got done explaining 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:31.880 cows are sacred to these people, a status symbol to 0:15:31.960 --> 0:15:35.760 these people. As a European, you may have everyone's best 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:39.200 interest at heart. When you send a few guys onto 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:43.360 somebody's land and shoot twenty of his cows in the head, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:49.680 he is almost undoubtedly going to interpret that act differently 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:59.480 than you do. It's bad. Rebellion breaks out. Rebellion breaks out. 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.120 In fact, you should know. I won't tell you the 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.560 name of it, because it's another detail. I'm already drowning 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:10.520 you in details. But they consider the Rhodesian Bush War 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:13.440 to be the second version of this rebellion, that's what 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.280 they call it. This is the first of these rebellions. 0:16:16.840 --> 0:16:20.960 The tribes rise up, they rebel. They are not as 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:25.920 technologically advanced they do, however, have the numbers. It's slaughter, 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:31.760 it's destruction. They're doing things like one miner he had 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:35.000 worked with ten Africans on a mine for a long time. 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.440 He then found himself with them crawling into the mind 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:44.320 trying to beat him to death one night. There are 0:16:44.360 --> 0:16:46.840 some stories I'll tell you in a moment. It is 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:51.240 the Jesse Kelly Show on a Wonderful Wednesday talking about 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:55.920 the land down under Africa tonight as we go, quit what, Chris, 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.680 I'm not a geologist, all right, I don't know everything. 0:16:58.680 --> 0:17:01.960 All right. Back to our history of the Rhodesian Bush War. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.280 The Europeans had set up the trains, that'd set up 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.920 the villages. The tribes were hating each other. The tribes 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:12.000 were not liking this European rule, and they broke out 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.720 in rebellion. Now, this is nothing like the rebellion that 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:20.800 will happen during the Rhodesian Bush War. This is completely disorganized. 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:25.400 There aren't any central leaders. And remember the two tribes 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.920 hate each other as much as they hate the Europeans. 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:32.400 So what does this rebellion look like. It sounds horrifying, 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:39.120 but it's essentially small areas where panic gets inflamed, anger 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:46.879 gets inflamed, and it's oftentimes led by local religious leaders, 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:51.760 local tribal religious leaders, you know, all these weird tribal 0:17:51.760 --> 0:17:56.880 false religions. Local religious leaders would get their local area 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.640 to rise up against the white invaders, the European invaders. 0:18:01.920 --> 0:18:04.919 I told you briefly about that story of the miner. 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.639 Well you know how most of that story went. He 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:11.240 walked out of his house to find ten Africans who 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.919 he had worked with on the mine, not slaves or 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:15.840 something like that, you know, working with him every day 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.960 lunch wages that there were co workers with war clubs. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.520 This animal manages to wrestle one of the war clubs 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.600 from him. They start beating him. He starts swinging back 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:31.600 and beating them. He makes his way all the way 0:18:31.680 --> 0:18:35.119 into the mind shaft where he rolls down into the 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.560 mind shaft, and then he has more miners in the 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.440 mind shaft who he's worked with, who he thinks will 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.200 come to his aid, and they start beating him too. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.960 He starts fighting them off he's fighting his way through 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:53.200 the mines. These things happen. In another incident, two guys 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:58.240 are sitting there, there are women and children hidden behind them, 0:18:58.600 --> 0:19:02.280 and the tribesmen have so rounded the mine and they 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:05.840 are essentially getting ready to kill everyone in it. The 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:08.879 two dudes make a break for it. What are they 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.440 making a break for. They're going for the telegraph line 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.280 so they can telegraph for help so the women and 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.680 children won't die. They book it. One of them, actually 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.359 both of them end up making it the entire way 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:26.480 to the telegraph hut. One holds the door closed from 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:29.919 the angry tribesman behind him, while the other gets on 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.679 the telegraph machine and telegraphs the message out. Eventually, the 0:19:34.760 --> 0:19:38.919 door is kicked down and both men die with African 0:19:39.080 --> 0:19:44.000 spears sticking out from all over their bodies. This is 0:19:44.119 --> 0:19:49.160 taking place all across Zimbabwe at this time, but as 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:52.879 I said, it is not unified. It is poorly led. 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:58.320 And eventually the Europeans raise for themselves, or they should say, 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.439 they get back their army. Long story I won't go into. 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.200 Most of their fighting men had gone to fight somewhere 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.600 else and they'd been captured. They get their fighting men 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.880 and their fighting men are organized, and they are well led, 0:20:12.200 --> 0:20:15.720 and they start to put this rebellion down. They put 0:20:15.720 --> 0:20:19.399 it down to such effect. The rebels are now starving. 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.240 The rebels are hiding in caves, and the Europeans are 0:20:23.480 --> 0:20:28.520 dynamiting rebels out of caves, dynamiting the entrance, starving them. 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:34.080 And there's an or horrible, horrible, ugly affair. Cecil Rhodes, 0:20:34.640 --> 0:20:38.639 the guy who started all this, he brings all the 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:42.440 tribal leaders together finally after a very vicious little war, 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:48.400 and he negotiates a peace because the tribes are starving. 0:20:49.040 --> 0:20:53.400 They're starving. They're done. Only now, this is the problem 0:20:53.480 --> 0:20:59.440 with rebellion when you lose one. If you lose one, 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.720 you are always going to end up worse off than 0:21:04.800 --> 0:21:09.200 you were before. If you're going to rebel, you better win. 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:11.919 The whole history of the world proves this to be 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.479 the case. It's almost weird when you look back and 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:17.720 you wonder why so many people rebelled. We're going to 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:21.200 rebel against Babylon. Oh no, we're all skinned alive. I mean, 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:25.320 it just doesn't it doesn't work. Now they have no 0:21:25.359 --> 0:21:31.280 more control. And now after the negotiated peace, now Britain 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:34.520 is no longer doing that. Well, it's not really our thing, 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:39.359 it's kind of a private enterprise thing. Nope, now this 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.960 is the nineteen twenties. Now Britain says no, no, no, no, no, 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.320 it's our country now. Now. They even gave it a name, 0:21:49.560 --> 0:21:54.040 South Rhodesia, by the way, in case you're wondering, Yes, 0:21:54.160 --> 0:21:57.520 that name comes from the name Cecil Rhoades. And no 0:21:57.880 --> 0:22:00.560 he didn't name it. In fact, he didn't even like 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.919 the name, which is weird. I've always wanted a country 0:22:02.960 --> 0:22:05.560 named after me. That is not what he preferred at all, 0:22:05.920 --> 0:22:08.639 but Rhodesia. Only at this point in time, it's named 0:22:08.840 --> 0:22:14.120 South Rhodesia. Let's fast forward just a little bit. They 0:22:14.119 --> 0:22:17.760 are locking in their control of the area. They're building 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:21.720 whole cities. Now, they're trying to modernize this country as 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:26.440 possible in a long comes World War two. This part 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:29.040 is going to be important for our story as we 0:22:29.080 --> 0:22:32.520 move along. I already told you the kind of people 0:22:32.600 --> 0:22:35.960 last night, the kind of Europeans who came here. These 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.040 were not convicts who just got out. These were not 0:22:39.440 --> 0:22:44.359 idiot's welfare recipients. In many ways, it was the cream 0:22:44.440 --> 0:22:48.280 of the crop. For Europeans and their children. They were 0:22:48.280 --> 0:22:51.199 tough as nails as well, not these effeminate, you know, 0:22:51.280 --> 0:22:55.280 pinky out people. Tough as nails. And they also had 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.639 because there were so few of them, and a country 0:22:57.640 --> 0:23:01.720 that was so big, with so many bigger tries, mandatory 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:07.240 military service for all the males. It is the Jesse 0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:11.800 Kelly Show on a magnificent Monday. I swear if you're suffering, 0:23:11.840 --> 0:23:14.200 we'll be back to politics in ten minutes. But we're 0:23:14.200 --> 0:23:17.639 doing part two of the Rhodesian bush War. Now. We 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:21.760 just finished the rebellion. The Europeans put down the rebellion. 0:23:22.880 --> 0:23:26.639 Britton essentially decided, okay, that's enough of all this playing games. 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:28.840 Now it's a country. Now, it's our country. In fact, 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.560 we're slapping a name on it now it's called South Rhodesia. 0:23:31.720 --> 0:23:35.159 And well, the way it works is, of course, World 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:39.600 War two breaks out. The Rhodesians, as I mentioned, black 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:44.359 and white military men went off and fought valiantly for 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:48.000 the Brits. That will end up mattering later on. But 0:23:48.119 --> 0:23:51.960 something else happens, and this is the ugly part of life, 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.680 the ironic, I guess I should should say part of life. 0:23:55.280 --> 0:24:02.600 In a lot of ways war can be good for economies. Certainly, 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:07.280 if you are a country that produces stuff, war can 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.760 be very good for you. Why are the Europeans in 0:24:10.920 --> 0:24:15.840 Rhodesia to begin with? It's rich with resources, The land 0:24:16.000 --> 0:24:20.040 is wonderful for agriculture. There are things to mine there. 0:24:20.480 --> 0:24:26.240 And guess which empire needs stuff right about now? Well 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:28.520 the Allies, well all of them, but the Allies need it. 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:38.639 The economy starts booming, booming, there are huge checks coming 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:45.760 into Rhodesia because the Allies needs stuff. Well, this is Africa, 0:24:47.480 --> 0:24:50.600 we already mentioned. It's a rough place. It's been a 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:55.240 rough place, just has not become a modern continent. Ever, 0:24:56.720 --> 0:25:00.280 what do you think happens when the Rhodesian Econo enemy 0:25:00.400 --> 0:25:05.400 starts booming? The word goes out. The word goes out 0:25:05.560 --> 0:25:08.960 to all the other countries around there who may be struggling. 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:11.840 There's always a famine, always a war, always a plague. 0:25:12.560 --> 0:25:18.080 And more Africans start pouring into Rhodesia looking for work, 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:25.000 looking for an opportunity, and they find them. But as 0:25:25.640 --> 0:25:31.760 usually happens, the war doesn't last forever. And after the 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:34.400 war is over, let's say, let's say it's the year 0:25:34.520 --> 0:25:37.080 nineteen forty one in your Rhodesia, just for the sake 0:25:37.119 --> 0:25:41.600 of argument, and your economy starts booming. Everyone knows it. 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:44.600 Everyone in Africa knows it. And so let's just say 0:25:44.680 --> 0:25:48.280 you get a million, two million Africans from other countries 0:25:48.359 --> 0:25:51.200 coming in to take advantage of the opportunity to feed 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.240 their families, clothed themselves, you know, all those things. But 0:25:54.400 --> 0:26:00.679 then nineteen forty five rolls around in biop war over. Well, 0:26:01.920 --> 0:26:05.000 there's still a market obviously for crops and chrome and 0:26:05.000 --> 0:26:08.320 the other things they mind, but not near the market 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:12.280 it once was. Well, now all those people have already 0:26:12.320 --> 0:26:18.639 come in, Now they've already brought jobs in. Now there's 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:22.520 not as much economic opportunity to go around, yet the 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:27.840 people are still there. This creates a situation that from 0:26:27.840 --> 0:26:32.880 the outside looking in, looks terrible. The situation being this, 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:41.040 you have these extremely wealthy, modern looking, mostly white, although 0:26:41.040 --> 0:26:44.640 there were plenty of black people. There are extremely modern, 0:26:44.960 --> 0:26:48.119 wealthy looking towns that would have looked like any town 0:26:48.280 --> 0:26:53.240 in America, any city in Europe popping up. Only on 0:26:53.280 --> 0:26:59.840 the outskirts there are extremely run down, poor, all black 0:27:00.440 --> 0:27:04.679 shanty towns that start popping up. The reason this is 0:27:04.800 --> 0:27:10.920 so disastrous is post World War Two. There was a 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:14.200 thing that was happening globally. It wasn't just to Britain. 0:27:15.240 --> 0:27:22.560 After World War Two, countries that had empires overseas started 0:27:22.600 --> 0:27:26.080 to give them up. Sometimes they fought hard for them, 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:28.879 you know, this was the French in Vietnam. Whe they 0:27:28.880 --> 0:27:31.680 eventually lost that, but they fought hard trying to keep it. 0:27:32.359 --> 0:27:35.560