Analyse af buskonflikt: racisme og passivitet

It is about this woman, who is sitting in a bus with her daughter. There are two big, white women who are sitting in the fold-up seats in the pram space. A Somali woman comes into the bus with a pram, and those two white women will not move. The Somali woman has to stand up in the aisle and the other passenger almost can’t come through. The bus driver, who is also black, come down and starts to yell at the Somali woman. But she doesn’t care and the narrator offers her hers seat, but she will not sit down. The narrator’s daughter can’t understand why her mother doesn’t do more to help this woman. When the Somali woman have to go off the bus, the narrator helps her and the Somali said that the bus driver was a slave. And the narrator thinks about what she had said, that evening when she sits with his daughter having pizza.

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I think the narrator is a woman in the middle age. She has at least one daughter called Miriam. The woman has been told, her whole life that she should treat other people well and help if she could.