Chinese woman puts black guy into the washing machine and, when it has cleaned the man, she pulls out a Chinese guy. But what I could not help noticing is that the black guy and the Chinese guy do not seem to have those kinds of eyes—eyes for women.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...