“I’m doing as my Mum said when I was young; always show them we’re better.” (ll. 17-18) But when are you better than someone else? This text, by Shereen Pandit, is about racism, where a coloured mum, the main character, is teaching her young daughter to stand up against the wrongdoing and fight for her rights as a coloured in a world full of racism, but the main character ends up doing nothing herself, which makes her applies double standards and become one of those, who fight by doing some wrong things which won’t get her anywhere like: when you don’t, I won’t; “Call me a reverse racist if you like, but if those white women won’t get up for the Somali woman, then I’m not giving up my seat or my kid’s to one of their kind. No way. I didn’t start this.” This makes her become just as bad as the two white women.
She is staying put. They all are. Except Mariam, the main characters daughter. She wants her mum to help the Somali woman and get up for the old white lady, as her mum taught her. It makes her feel confused and disappointed, when her mum doesn’t do any of that, just as she felt, when she found her dad as Santa Claus last Christmas (ll. 106-108). Even though the main character doesn’t help the Somali woman she wants to and gets mad at herself at last, because she didn’t. She is scared of the consequences if she stands up for the Somali woman – she doesn’t want to get chucked off the bus with her daughter, when they are on their way to the daughters dance lesson.
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